The Master's Chair (The Chronicles of Terah) by Morgan Mackenzie

Author:Morgan, Mackenzie [Morgan, Mackenzie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-10-15T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 31

Things Start Looking Up

Sunday morning Chris got up around six, dressed, and opened his door. He saw a light under Kevin’s door, so he knocked on it softly to see if Kevin was awake and ready to join him for coffee. When Kevin didn’t answer, Chris gently pushed on the door. It was unlatched, so it slowly swung open. Kevin was seated at his desk, staring at a pebble lying in the center of the desktop. Chris quietly shut the door.

When he got to the kitchen, he found a sack of food on the counter. Joan had wrapped bread, cheese, and a dozen oatmeal cookies in cheesecloths, and she had set a small basket of fresh strawberries on top. The coffee pot was on the table ready to go on the stove, and there was a note leaning against it that said, “Hope today goes well.”

After the coffee perked, Chris poured two large mugs and carried them down to Kevin’s room. This time he banged on the door with the toe of his boot, making enough noise to rouse Kevin out of his intense concentration. When Kevin opened the door, Chris handed him a mug of coffee and said, “Come on. Let’s drink our coffee in the sitting room. Then we’ll fix some breakfast and get ready to go.”

They left for Willow Canyon an hour later, carrying their torches and Joan’s bag of food. The closer they got to Glendymere’s cave, the more tense Kevin became. When he reached up to knock on the wooden door with the iron knocker, they both heard Glendymere say, “It’s all right. You can come in. I’m out in the valley.”

Kevin asked, “Do you want us to join you or should I start working on those four tasks?”

“Work on the tasks. We can’t go any farther until you master at least one of them,” Glendymere answered.

Kevin spent all day Sunday concentrating on those four skills, but to no avail. Chris was determined not to let Kevin work himself into a state of exhaustion, so he insisted that Kevin get up, stretch, walk around, drink water, and eat a little something at least once every hour. Since working with the wind could only be done outside, Chris used that as an excuse to get Kevin to go outside for some fresh air every few hours.

Around 5:30, Chris decided that it was time to call it a day, so he started getting their things together. When Kevin looked up and frowned at him, Chris said, “We’ve got to get moving. If we don’t leave here within the next few minutes, we’ll be late for dinner.”

“So we’ll eat later,” Kevin said with a shrug.

“If it were just the two of us, that would be fine,” Chris agreed. “But the others will wait for us, and then everybody’ll end up having a cold dinner. Joan can’t keep it warm forever.” Actually, Chris had no idea whether the others would wait for them or not, but it sounded like a good argument.

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