The Zi'veyn: The Devoted Trilogy, Book One by Kim Wedlock

Author:Kim Wedlock [Wedlock, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-31T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30

After racing through the tower and crypts as quickly and carefully as they could, their pace hastened by the threat of returning harpies, they continued off into the forest until darkness had firmly set in. They made camp amongst the densest trees they could find, but already so far north, Turunda's forests were beginning to thin and the air was growing drier - but before too long they wouldn't have any cover at all and far more to avoid being seen by, so they tried to make the best of it and stifled their concerns while they could.

That evening, Anthis was bent firmly over his books while the others ate, scribbling across numerous pages. His expression was twisted in unbreakable thought, and he periodically returned to some of those scribbles, crossed them out and rewrote them elsewhere, only to cross most of those out once more, ponder for a while, sigh and turn to Kienza in defeat - to which she would reply that he'd had it right the first time. Clearly, her correction of his earlier translation had thrown him through a loop.

"Well," the sorceress began once the last of them had finished eating, a dubious note of finality to her voice that not one of them had missed, "thank you for dinner, and for the exciting day out. I wish you the greatest luck in your search - I'm sure you'll find something more substantial soon."

"You're leaving?" Anthis asked with barely concealed alarm, sparing a moment from his work to protest as she rose to her feet and dusted off her long, bark-coloured skirt.

She smiled apologetically, "I only remained because I needed to make sure Rathen was all right. He is, so now I have my own matters to attend to."

"Which are?"

Rathen shook his head to himself at the inquisitor's brusque question, and looked up to find Kienza giving him the disapprovingly raised eyebrow he'd expected. Surprisingly, however, she answered - which meant that it would either be only part of the truth, or that it would be needlessly complicated in order to put him off of asking her again in the future. She was always so very secretive.

"The magic is expanding in range, circumferentially, which suggests that it isn't just appearing on its own but rather spreading out from a single point and accumulating at these ruins, drawn by the magnetism and then spilling over onto the next. I've been following the magic backwards, ruin by ruin, broken spell chain by broken spell chain, to find the centre and, hopefully, its source, because - if I am correct, and I'm certain that I am - this flow of magic will need to be halted before the rest of it is removed or it will just collect all over again."

"How do you intend to halt it?" Garon asked as the others slowly processed the information.

"I don't," she replied simply. "I'm hoping he Zikrahlehveyn can do it. But, as there's no sense in waiting for you to find

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