The Magical Hunt by Dawn Brower

Author:Dawn Brower [Brower, Dawn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Monarchal Glenn Press

11

Blood and Thunder

“Hello,” the creature greeted them. “It took you long enough to come find me.”

Elodie stared at her with a critical eye. She had no idea what it was, but Daire seemed to. She glanced over at him and lifted a brow waiting for an explanation. Her brain was a little fuzzy. Daire claimed she’d been possessed by a umercorn—was this that creature? The battle for strength and power over her own mind was a constant struggle. She was in a better place, but she had a long way to go until she reached her full abilities. The last thing she recalled was staring out of the window at the rain. Then she’d blinked and was standing in front of Daire. That alone told her something profound had happened. She wasn’t sure exactly what, so she needed him, and perhaps this being, to fill in the blanks.

He sighed and gestured toward the water. “It’s the umercorn.”

That was his explanation? This was what he wanted her to go and see after they left the cottage? She needed a little more than that to go on. She turned toward the creature and examined it. Yes, she could see why he called it that, yet she couldn’t fully comprehend what, exactly, she was seeing. It had the features of a mermaid—similar to the creatures she had first come across in the fountain. Those fiends had wanted to enslave her. What would this one want? It did have some marked differences. The coloring wasn’t quite the same, though it did have some silver and white tones to it. The rainbow hair was glaringly unusual. The horn looked rather deadly, but it too was dissimilar to the first mermaids. Ah—umercorn, suddenly she understood. Though how a mermaid and unicorn created this creature she wasn’t certain, and she didn’t quite want to figure it out either. “Do you have a name?” Elodie asked the umercorn.

“I do,” she replied. “But you have not yet earned the right of its use.”

Elodie mentally rolled her eyes. The creatures of Malediction liked to be contrary. In some ways, it reminded her of Lulu, but she didn’t like that comparison. This one seemed to lack Lulu’s restlessness. The umercorn didn’t hide its calculating personality and stark intelligence. She wasn’t afraid to show them she wanted something and had no qualms demanding it.

“We don’t need her name,” Daire interrupted. “She claims to have something of more value to us.”

“Oh?” Elodie lifted a brow. “What?”

“One of our missing items.”

That changed things. They needed to find those items to return to Zelnon. If the umercorn had one of them… “Which one?”

“All in good time,” the umercorn answered cryptically. She swished her tail in the water playfully and then winked at Daire. Then, she raised her hand and ran her fingers through her long tresses as if she were trying to tempt him. “First we must discuss payment.”

Everything had a cost. It was a matter of counting that cost and deciding if in the end it still remained worth the price.

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