The Lost Endeavour by Georgina Makalani

Author:Georgina Makalani [Makalani, Georgina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780648722779
Published: 2020-08-13T16:00:00+00:00

Standing in the doorway to the hut, Dray did not want to go in, nor did he want to sleep. He didn’t know what he might dream of, and he didn’t want to face her again. Not after he had struggled today. Although, he had stepped up when he’d needed to.

Something shimmered in the moonlight. He thought it part of the magic that protected them, but the world beyond was dark. He didn’t know if that creature was still out there, nor if her words were enough to keep it from consuming him. Yet he was tempted to push his way through the barrier and explore the world beyond.

What else might the mage and the regent send after them? He took a step and placed his hand out towards the shimmering barrier. They had to see the boy as a threat. They must have thought the only way to stop him was to destroy him. Had they attempted to discredit him within the capital? Were the people worried, or had they come to accept that he was gone?

Dray looked back towards the building he had left the king in. Could they just walk back into the capital? That was where they had been headed when they were waylaid by the forest. Was the forest trying to protect him now, or did it have an agenda of its own? He needed someone to advise him. Someone he could talk to about what was happening, for he had no idea at all. He ran a hand over his face, the fingers finding the scar that wasn’t there, and he turned in frustration to find himself lost in the dark.

The night sky had disappeared. The forest he was sure pressed on the edges of the village was gone. Large green eyes blinked at him from the darkness, and his hand rested on his sword.

“What is your plan, little soldier?” a voice asked. It vibrated through him, as though it spoke inside him rather than to him.

Was this something else the mage had sent?

It laughed, and he gulped down the rising fear, drawing his sword. Although he doubted it would have much impact on whatever this was before him.

“I could use you,” the voice whispered, and he shivered.

“Enough,” Ana’s voice snapped through the fog. The world cleared a little, but the lights were not the same. It was as though he stood somewhere else, somewhere outside the forest.

The silhouette of a woman moved from the darkness, but she stopped as he maintained his hold on the sword. “I’m sorry,” she murmured.

“Are you really here?” he asked, lowering the sword.

“In some sense, but no.”

He waited, but she didn’t come any closer. “What happened today?” he eventually asked. “What have you become?”

“I don’t know,” she said, her soft voice sad. He was reminded of her following him through the brush on the mountains and scratching her arms to pieces.

“Does Ed know?”

“What I am?” she asked, something catching in her throat. “He struggles with what he is.”

“I meant that you are here.

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