The Tyger Kings (Mate of the Tyger Prince Book 7) by Shannon West

Author:Shannon West [West, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Painted Hearts Publishing
Published: 2018-10-30T18:30:00+00:00

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It had taken them a while to finally make it to shore. Blake and Derrick had been on either side of Davos, helping to keep him afloat, so they were slower than the others. Rhaegar and one of his burly officers had to wade out to help them drag Davos out of the icy water. Immediately, Rhaegar had begun saying he wanted to get off the shoreline. No other survivors had surfaced from the wreckage, though Rhaegar left two men near the forest edge for a while, in case anyone did.

Still, it was Rhaegar’s contention that a rescue party would be coming by morning to check for survivors, especially considering King Davos had been on that ship. In the meantime, he thought it would be safe to start a small fire so they could get dry. He said he thought they had a few hours before search and rescue efforts would begin. Not to mention the fact that the temperature was already dropping as it got toward nightfall so a fire to dry their clothing was desperately needed. Rhaegar sent a few men into the woods to forage for any thing edible they could find and then worked on getting a fire started. The lake contained fresh water, so they had a ready supply.

In the end, it took Derrick using some techniques he’d learned at his training school to get a spark to start the fire, though, and keep that spark going long enough to ignite the dry deadfall. Rhaegar’s crew foraged for enough of it to keep the fire going for most of the night, because it looked as though the weather was taking a bit of a turn for the worse, temperature wise. They already had a huge pile of limbs and Rhaegar sent them looking for more, “so we don’t have to go in the middle of the night.”

Blake was worried about Davos, because he still hadn’t awakened fully. He’d been restless and was groaning a lot, but he was still mostly unconscious. The cut on the back of his head was deep, and though Blake had washed it as best he could and bandaged it with a piece of his torn shirt, Davos was becoming feverish.

“I think we have to get him to a doctor, Derrick,” Blake told his son as they sat beside him. “We don’t have any choice.”

“How, omak? We can’t do anything until morning. And Rhaegar says that even then, we’re probably a long way from any settlement.”

“They’ll come searching for him, and the lost transport, I’m sure. They would have tracked it to its last known location, even considering the captain might not have had time to get off a message, which he probably did. No, someone will show up in the morning. Or maybe even sooner than that. That’s why as soon as it’s first light, you and Rhaegar and the others need to go. Get as deep in the forest as you can and hide until they stop searching. Rhaegar knows what to do—this forest is vast.

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