The Rise of Fortune and Fury (Chronicles of the Stone Veil Book 5) by Sawyer Bennett

Author:Sawyer Bennett [Bennett, Sawyer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Paranormal, Fantasy
Publisher: Big Dog Books, LLC
Published: 2021-05-03T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

Finley

“This almost feels normal,” I muse as Carrick and I walk hand in hand down the block. The Prestige is up ahead and our pace is leisurely, neither of us in a rush to get back to the condo.

We just had a date, of sorts.

Lunch to be exact, and it was wonderful because it was just the two of us. Outside of the time we spend in our bedroom—where conversation isn’t necessarily at a premium—we get to spend little alone time together. This has been especially true since Zora has come, because I’ve been devoting a lot of time to hanging out with her.

In the past two days since returning from Semper Terra, I’ve taken her out of the condo and shown her what Seattle has to offer. Of course, that had to include visits to the Space Needle and Pike’s Place Market. That precipitated a stop to the very first Starbucks across the Market so I could explain Seattle coffee to Zora. While she’s not a coffee connoisseur, nor has she actually had a cup of coffee from One Bean yet, she did proclaim my place much better. I loved that so much because while Zora doesn’t think she’s likable, doesn’t know how to be a sister, or even how to show kindness, that statement said everything about the kind of person she’s becoming since leaving the Underworld.

Carrick and I also took Zora to the Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum, as well as on a ferry boat ride. She is still getting used to mechanized and electrical wonders—cars, boats, planes, elevators, televisions, smartphones, and such. And hilariously, the thing that seems to impress her the most are the robotic vacuums Zaid has set up around the condo to sweep the floors on the off days from when the cleaning service comes in. She’s also enamored with hairdryers and microwave ovens.

Many of these things, she had heard of before. Amell taught her about the magic of a jet plane in the Earth realm as he’d take her flying across the Underworld caverns. She wanted to take a plane trip, but she still couldn’t quite understand how enormous an actual passenger plane was. To give her some perspective, we took her to the intersection of 188th Street and 16th Avenue so she could watch some planes land at Sea-Tac. I was afraid she was going to have a heart attack as the first one came roaring over us.

In all, the last two days have been idyllic for me because I’ve been able to spend time with Zora without the weight of the prophecy in my face. Carrick, Maddox, Zaid, and Boral were still working hard to find information about where Kymaris might be and where the ritual will be held. Titus stayed back in Semper Terra where he and Caiden will continue to recruit annihilators to join us for the probable battle, and Rainey and Myles are still in Fiji, but they’ll be home in two days.

Carrick has never begrudged me time with Zora since she returned with us.

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