The Tricksters Deception: A Sweet & Spicy Romantasy by Serena Knights

Author:Serena Knights [Knights, Serena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-09-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter twelve

Corvu spends a little longer than half an hour teaching me how to keep a grip on my sword, but I end up with more bruises than when I fell off that cart last week. I’ve been here for so long already. It means I’ve missed a few shifts at work, so surely someone has noticed I’m missing by now. It’s not that I expect anyone to come looking for me; I just don’t want to be forgotten. Maybe I should have tried harder to make more friends. I’d hate to think I’d go completely unnoticed. I do have a good friend—we grew up at the orphanage together. She was adopted, but we never lost touch. She calls me once a month and visits every few months or so. She lives in New Jersey, so the subway ride can be a little long. I miss her.

It’s night, and even though we don’t have to worry about Skellys anymore, I’m still uneasy about sleeping in the middle of a forest. It’s not as cold as it was a couple of nights ago, which is a relief, but I can’t sit as close to the fire as I’d like without getting a mouthful of smoke. Gecko finds a spot next to a crevice, giving us an advantage should anyone try to approach us from that side. He’s dead asleep on top of the boulder we built the fire next to. It has been a long day, especially with our interrupted sleep the night before.

“Hey,” Corvu somewhat whispers, coming over to sit down next to me against the fallen tree stump. In his hand he holds a canteen, which he passes to me. I smile and accept it, but after taking a sip I realize it’s not water, but grapey? It’s very sweet.

“What is this?” I ask him,

“Do you not have wine in your world?” He questions, raising a curious brow.

“Oh,” I respond, a little surprised, I wasn’t expecting him to carry around wine.

“Sophii gave me a couple of these, she picked the grapes and Gharp did the rest.”

“That’s really cool.” I smile, taking another small sip.

“‘Cool’?”

“Yeah, that’s our slang for saying something is really awesome or amazing.” He nods, a hint of a smile sitting on his lips. Taking the canteen from me he takes a sip as well. I normally don’t like sharing food and drink because of germs, but in this world dying from sharing a canteen of wine was not my highest concern. “So, you said that even you had a reason to want to use the amulet, do you mind if I ask what it is your searching for?"

He scoffs, “Even if I did mind, you'd ask anyway.” He hands the canteen back to me once again to take a drink, “I'm looking for someone.”

“Who are you looking for?”

“My parents. I don't really know what happened to them.” The sentence alone made me feel so much sadness, but there were so many questions that stemmed from it,

“What do you last remember?” I ask.

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