The Severance Game by Geanna Culbertson

Author:Geanna Culbertson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Boutique of Quality Book Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2016-06-12T04:00:00+00:00

The Encounter

J, are you sure you don’t have any more portable potions up your sleeve?” Jason asked as he inspected the broken wheels of our carriage.

“I am sure,” she responded. “I used the few extras I found on the Therewolf stage to escape those men in the forest. If we are to move forward, I am afraid we will have to think of something else.”

All enchanted options having been exhausted, and no tools or supplies to help, the five of us surveyed our busted up carriage and tried to figure out how to proceed.

We’d been riding for a while and were in the clear in terms of attackers. That good fortune aside, two of the wheels on our rickety carriage had snapped under our weight a few minutes ago. Meanwhile, the gaping hole in the floor of the vehicle was growing wider—threatening to crack the whole thing in half.

We’d tried to fix it ourselves using wood from the trees, vines, and the different forms my wand could take. But none of our solutions proved reliable for very long. If we had some actual tools, maybe we could have salvaged the situation. Alas, we didn’t have much to work with.

There had been no tools in the trunk of the carriage, just some bags of our stuff that the stable manager hadn’t sold yet. Among these random items were a few empty canteens, extra throwing knives of Blue’s, and some miscellaneous pieces of clothing we’d packed.

Although not helpful to our carriage problem, I was grateful for the latter. While SJ’s SRBs kept us clean throughout the ordeal of the Therewolves and the Forbidden Forest, I was still feeling kind of gross. I’d been wearing the same thing for more than two weeks. My outfit was torn in multiple places, and its essence reeked of incarceration. So I was glad to find spare leggings and a dress that I could change into.

The others, too, opted for a costume change when we pulled over. They made use of the various spare clothing items as they tried to shed the memories of what we’d just lived through.

As I straightened out the hem of the long-sleeve, mustard yellow dress I’d put on, I wished fixing up the carriage could be this easy. If we were going to get to the shores of Adelaide any time soon, we would have to find another way of crossing the realm.

That’s where we were beginning our search for Ashlyn—Adelaide. More specifically—the ocean off the coast of Adelaide near the underwater kingdom of Mer.

With the enchanted saltwater taffy from the Valley of Edible Enchantments, we now had what we needed to search the waters outside the lost princess’s home kingdom. We also had something else to guide our search—a theory.

Before the carriage had broken down I’d told the others about my meeting with Harry the White Rabbit, sharing his revelation about the wormhole-esque holes in the In and Out Spell and showing them my new Hole Tracker.

In the process, I’d hit a few buttons on the rim of the wristwatch.

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