The Royal Trials~Seeker by Tate James

Author:Tate James [James, Tate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Foxy Publishing
Published: 2019-02-13T05:00:00+00:00

12

I woke with a startled gasp, sitting upright in the canopied bed and blinking into the darkness.

What had just woken me? Was it a noise?

The curtains were open, showing me a bright, full moon. Jules was fast asleep on a stretcher beside the bed, her mouth open as she snored softly. The whole room was silent and still, yet my heart raced with fear.

Pushing the blankets down, I slipped out of the bed and winced as my bare feet touched cold floor tiles. Barely breathing for fear of waking Jules, I tiptoed to the window and looked out.

The street outside the inn was still, and I shook my head at my own paranoia. It had probably been a bad dream or something that had woken me.

I was just about to turn away and return to bed when movement in the shadows opposite the inn caught my attention. A woman stepped out into the light, and I sucked in a gasp. She was beautiful, almost painfully so, with black hair to her waist, streaked with white. Her pale blue, old-fashioned dress swirled around her legs from a breeze that touched nothing else in the street.

She stared up at me, her eyes locking on mine despite the fact that she shouldn’t have been able to see me at all. Yet I was positive she could and that she was the reason I’d woken so abruptly.

Slowly, she tilted her head, indicating for me to join her outside.

Common sense and self-preservation laughed inside me, scoffing at the idea that I’d sneak out in the middle of the night to meet with a creepy woman who seemed to glow with her own inner light. But that didn’t stop my feet from carrying me away from the window to the bedroom door, nor did it stop my fingers from silently sliding the bolt open or my body from slipping quietly out into the night.

This is madness, my better judgement berated me as I crept through the sleeping inn and out into the street where the woman waited. But I didn’t turn back.

“Who are you?” I asked as I drew closer to her. “What do you want from me?”

With each step I took, the her skin seemed to shine and glow more with an inner luminescence, like she was made of starlight. Her lips were an unnatural shade of red, and her smile lacked any warmth.

“Come,” she ordered me, her mouth barely moving and her too dark eyes drawing me in like a snake charmer. “Follow.”

Helpless to refuse, I did as she wanted, trailing after her as she glided through the streets and out of the town. Feeling an odd sense of calm with this stranger, I stayed silent as we entered the forest behind the small village. But she wasn’t a stranger, or at least, she didn’t seem like a stranger. Something about her felt... familiar. Like I’d known this woman my whole life.

“Where are we going?” I asked finally, after we’d walked some distance into the forest and I could hear the running water of a stream nearby.

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