The Redemption of Wist Boxed Set: Books 1 - 3: The complete collection by David Gilchrist

Author:David Gilchrist
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-11-09T00:00:00+00:00

14 - Beneath The Tides

They had managed to get a glimpse of their destination when it had grown too dark for Aviti and Sevika to continue, so they made their camp in the moss under one of the thousands of trees.

The Intoli had said nothing since revealing that Aviti's father had spoken to her through his daughter. So they moved towards the grey castle in silence. Aviti must get this creature, this Intoli to talk. She needed to connect with Sevika on some level before they reached their destination. So as she ate another paltry meal around a fire, Aviti began to talk. She started to tell of her journey from the southern arid continent of Tapasya to Pyrite.

'It had taken me longer than Nikka, the Cerni dwarf who travelled with us, to adjust to the rolling waves, but less than the others, apart from Tyla.'

'Do you know the Cerni, the dark-skinned dwarves of Sordir in Tapasya?' Aviti asked. Sevika did not reply so she continued.

'Anyway, we had been aboard the vessel for a month, which was far longer than we had been told.' That had not concerned Aviti. Leaving the ship would mean facing her future and her problems.

'The small party with which I had boarded the vessel were still there. I could … I could feel them somehow.' Aviti should not have given this away, but she had to risk something if she wanted to prise open the Intoli's rigid defences, so she continued. 'On the night we sank, Nikka was with me on the deck, but he was at the far end. I could feel him there; his solid fortitude sitting amongst us. Dregan, the mage, was below deck.'

She had felt him there beneath her feet, a mass of obfuscations and purposes; a cynosure of intentions. She should have asked the Intoli about Dregan, but she could not face what the answer might be.

'Then there was Tyla and Wist.' In her mind, she had sometimes confused the two men, and at other times, the impressions she had of them could not have been more different. 'Both of these men had been instrumental in destroying my old life.' Tyla had shown her glimpses of a future, something that she could have grasped, but after his severing from Faric, he had retreated from her. And when the Lyrat had begun to emerge from the stasis that had gripped him, Aviti had been pulled from him with her own struggles. 'Yes, Wist. I remember thinking that had I been given my father's gift for foresight then I would have left him to die at the gates of Mashesh.'

'Then I remember the spray from the side of the boat catching me in the face, filling my mouth with saltwater.' She also remembered spitting the bitter liquid back into the sea and admonishing herself. Even then, after the loss of her brother, her father, her life on the farm in Mashesh she knew that she could never have left Wist to die. The tale of Wist's suicide had confused her at first.

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