The Watchers: The Complete Series: by Tom Abrahams

Author:Tom Abrahams [Abrahams, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B08YFP5R1W
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2021-06-01T00:00:00+00:00

Branch stood silently, eyes closed. “Repeat it.”

She did. In the distance the fire popped again. A breeze drew a wave of smoke across them.

Saying nothing, Branch opened his eyes and pivoted. The rocks shifted under his boots. Anaxi didn’t need to look at him to know he’d turned his attention to the peaks behind them.

“Beyond the rocks and the sand,” he said above a whisper, “one is a fist, the other an open palm.”

He understood. They were here because this was the final challenge. This place. His lips parted then closed. The man was speechless for maybe the first time in his life.

Anaxi put an end to the suspense. “Yes. We have to climb the island to the peaks. Then we have to enter the one on the left.”

“The open palm,” Branch said.

“Yes.”

“How many of us?”

She shrugged. “That’s up to you.”

His expression carried with it a childlike optimism. Or was it worry?

“And inside I’ll find the Kalevanmiekka?” he asked.

“I don’t know,” Anaxi lied.

He craned his neck to study the peaks. That bird reemerged from the one with a hole at the top, flapping its wings furiously as it ascended into the darkening sky above.

Branch gripped her shoulder tightly. Then his hand slid to the back of her neck as he said, “You’re coming with me.”

She stiffened against his touch. “When?”

“First thing in the morning. Might be smart to get a good night’s sleep, little one. You’ll need it.”

She stepped free of his hold and faced him. “You’re the one who will need all the help you can get. You think you’ve seen challenges? You haven’t seen anything yet.”

Anaxi brushed past him, balancing herself on the rocks as she walked away without acknowledging him. She was hungry, and something was cooking on the fire. But, mostly, she was tired.

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