The Legend of the Lumenstones 1, the Lightbearer by Tanya Cliff

Author:Tanya Cliff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fantasy, fantasy series, fantasy magic, fantasy epic, fantasy humor, fantasy ebook, fantasy drama
Publisher: Tanya Cliff

9 Ungrown Wings

“What is it now?” Lorien demanded.

The noon sun flickered through the painted leaves above as they rustled in the breeze. Ribbons of gold and red reflected off the rippling waters of the river below. Ajie led Lorien south on the Garven Road, a route that took them away from the trouble of the night before and opposite of the direction the Gat had taken. They followed a dirt trail east along the Fandan River, a narrow tributary that wound from the Garven Road to the Great River. From there, they planned to take a rarely traveled path that cut north through the rough terrane and dense woods to the Fandan Pass into the lands of the Northern Realm.

“Ajie, this is the fifth time we’ve stopped,” she said. “We are not far from the Outer Boundaries.”

He shushed her.

“Wait here. I want to get a better look.”

He climbed the steep rocks leading into the woods away from the river bank with speed and vanished over the ridge.

“There is nothing out here but birds and squirrels! Ajie!”

“Wait there!”

She adjusted the leather belt around her waist and ran her fingers along the handles of her sword and her dagger. Her hand paused on the small pouch that carried the Lumenstone. She looked around and sighed.

“Ajie!”

She stared after him for a few minutes.

“Ajie!”

She waited. Finally, she unsheathed her dagger and held it by her side. She walked a few steps down the trail. She paused and looked back up the rocky incline, but there was no sign of Ajie. She gripped the handle of the dagger but kept it dangling next to her. Then, with a sigh, she hiked down the path.

Within a few minutes, she reached the trail that cut north to the Fandan Pass and protected lands. The path traversed up and down through the rocky hills and thick vegetation. She brushed the leaves off the ground in front of her with her boot, revealing a semi-buried, flat stone that marked the path’s entrance. The corner of the stone was engraved with worn, Valdaren runes. She translated, “To the Spirit of the Fandan for quick passage north…blah blah…can’t read that…beware…blah blah.” She knew of the passage from old maps but she had never used it.

“Beware of what? That is not useful information.”

She waited for a few minutes, but Ajie did not follow. She climbed a steep path. The trail flattened out on top for a dozen steps and then dropped sharply down the backside of the hill. She repeated the process over another hill. From there the trail turned and passed through the dried bed of an ancient river, providing easy footing between the two rock walls of the glen long ago cut by those waters. At the end of the glen was another incline and a long trail overgrown with foliage. She traveled across the path and continued down the next hill. At the bottom, the woods opened to a spacious, circular meadow framed entirely by the surrounding hills. The path continued straight across the meadow.

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