The Knowing One by Lexy Wolfe

Author:Lexy Wolfe [Wolfe, Lexy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BHC Press
Published: 2017-03-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 32

The wind gusted just as the main door burst open and Storm stalked out, slamming it behind her. From within the stables, the drizar shrilled in response to his rider's fury, the sound of shattering wood from a stall door mingling with the cries of "Take cover!" from the stable hands. Stopping three steps away from the house, Storm looked up at the trees, narrowing her gaze on a specific branch as the drizar shoved his way out of the stables to join her. His snapping at the stable hand startled the boy back inside where it was safer.

Eyes fixed on one point, Storm crouched down to pick up a stone, removing the long leather strap that she used as a headband.

The guardsman mage on duty dropped his camouflage spell when she would not look away. "What are you doing?" The man frowned as Storm adjusted the strap and set the stone in the cradle formed.

Storm started swinging the sling. "Giving you reason not to know which direction I leave in," she replied tonelessly. Before the man could ask what she was talking about, she released the stone. The man tried to dive to the side to avoid the projectile, but was too slow. The rock glanced off his head. He collapsed, barely keeping from falling to the merciless ground.

Waiting until she was assured he still breathed and would not fall off, Storm mounted the drizar and the creature shrieked defiantly before taking off at a speed he had not run at since leaving the desert. The woman leaned close against his back, holding his neck tightly as she guided him so his trail would remain obscured.

They had ridden at a distance-eating pace for an hour before they slowed their pace, long away from Ithesra. Storm turned her attention away from flight to finding shelter. Pain shot through her shoulder as she felt Thandar seeking to touch her mind, shattering the barrier she had thrown up against even him. Aelia! What is wrong? Where are you going?

Tears came to Storm's eyes as Thandar's questions brought what drove her away to the forefront of her mind. "Anywhere but this place," she whispered harshly. "I have failed Father. I cannot do what he asks of me. I cannot teach them. I cannot teach him. He only hears what he wants."

She felt Thandar's anger bubbling through her bond to the Totani. You are in pain... He has hurt you! A surge of rage made Storm grimace. I will kill him!

"No, Thandar!" Nearing a spring pool that rested by an abandoned root hollow, Storm urged the drizar to stop. She dismounted and looked at the sky, shivering, having left without taking her warmer clothes. "No. Do not kill the Illaini Magus. Please."

The intensity of the bond tightened, making Storm gasp, clutching her shoulder. The drizar nuzzled her worriedly. He does not deserve your heart, Aelia. That one is the son of the defilers. He deserves no boons from us.

Letting the drizar nudge her

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