The Seer's Secret (Legacy of the Time Stones Trilogy Book 1) by Brittany Fichter

Author:Brittany Fichter [Fichter, Brittany]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: BrittanyFichterFiction.com
Published: 2021-12-09T00:00:00+00:00

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Eirin groaned and tried to flip over, but something stuck her in the ribs. Her eyes flew open to see what it was, but in her haste, she forgot that the reason she’d tried to flip over was because someone was shining a light in her eyes. She scrunched them shut tightly as they watered and ached, the light from the lamp still seeming to shine behind her eyelids. The light was moved out of her direct line of vision, but her eyes continued watering.

“Sorry.” The whisper came from Drystan. “I didn’t mean to wake you.”

She rubbed her sore eyes with the heels of her palms. When she cautiously tried to open them again, the lamp was safely on the other side of Drystan’s barrel. And she was still in the barrel Alanna had stuffed her into when the Griffins had come. A dull blue flame, framed with gold, swirled above her.

“It’s all right,” she said, trying to sit up. “Alanna made me sleep in the barrel in case the Griffins came back.” She yawned. “It was kind of her to at least let me tip it sideways and give me my pack for a pillow.” She shook her head to clear it. “Are you on watch?”

“Yes. Qeb and I will be going up in just a minute.”

Eirin sat up on her elbow and tried to see his face in the thin lamplight. Something in his words was...off. The saner part of her mind scoffed and said he deserved whatever it was that was bringing him angst, and she ought to go back to sleep. Her problems were big enough. She didn’t need to add him and his complications (or the confusing way he made her feel) to her load. And yet, she squinted up at him, her curiosity overtaking her sanity.

“What’s wrong?” she whispered.

Quiet laughter. “Am I really that easy to read?”

“Not usually.”

He paused, and for a moment, she wondered if he would even tell her. He was the Heir, after all, and owed her nothing.

“Yesterday morning,” he said quietly. “When we left the village. You knew things had changed. Didn’t you?”

How was she going to answer? Her mother’s warning still rang in her ears, her vehement insistence that Eirin especially hide her secret from the Heir. But now they were gallivanting around the mountain, and Eirin discovered that, as much as she loved and respected her mother, she...she almost didn’t care. The weight of secrecy was growing too heavy to carry on her own.

“Yes,” she whispered.

He groaned, and as her eyes were beginning to adjust to the dark, she could see him put a hand over his chest as he winced.

At least Eirin didn’t need to ask about that. She opened her pack and pulled out a little of the bruthsi root Mannish’s father had given her. The powder wasn’t as fine as what she would have ground it to at home, but he took the gritty powder anyway. Instead of swallowing it, though, he gave it an odd look.

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