Time Walker (Spirit Bound) by Meghan Ciana Doidge

Author:Meghan Ciana Doidge [Doidge, Meghan Ciana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Old Man in the CrossWalk Productions
Published: 2014-01-09T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

The trap laid for them was subtler than before, but still had a huge impact.

By the time Finn and Bryan caught up with Beth, she’d lost Tyson. They had cut back to the hiking trail, which was still referred to by its name from the ancient times known as the Before, when the Vanquished had populated this area. Once, the trail had spanned the mountains from sea to sea, but the forest had long since reclaimed everything beyond a three-hour hike in any direction from Hollyburn Castle. Beth didn’t often pay much attention to history lessons, but her adoptive father, Hugh, was always talking about the trails and the woods. Being a spiritwalker, whose preferred animal form was a wolf, Hugh knew every inch of the forest and loved to share his knowledge.

Though there were rumors that many beasts of pure magic, such as trolls, claimed the forest as their territory, Beth had never been scared of the woods. No matter that she preferred to be indoors. But then, Hugh or Bryan usually accompanied her in the wilderness, and with them at her side, what was there to fear from magical beasts?

Still, she had also heard rumors of people who dwelled in the forest and didn’t live by the same rules that dictated the behavior of the people of the castles and the Great City. Beth wondered if those rumors were the reason the trails never extended any farther than when they’d walked them as children.

In the moments after she lost Tyson and had yet to be found by Finn and Bryan, Beth felt the dark-tinged disquiet in the trees that gave rise to all the tales and rumors.

The two of them had been trudging along through the snow. In fact, she’d was rather blindly following Tyson, who hadn’t spoken or paused since he’d chastised Bryan and Finn. Beth hadn’t even noticed when he cut back to the main trail. Everything looked the same to her, all covered in snow.

When they’d been following Bryan, who knew the woods better than anyone except maybe Hugh, there had been no concern with finding their way back to the castle. Tyson must have felt the need to find the old trail in order to find his way home.

It turned out that Finn had been absolutely correct about not using the trail. He’d been worried that it made them too visible. Beth and Tyson had only been on the path long enough for her to realize they were wading through less snow than before, moving along the same trail they’d already broken on the way out, when Tyson shouted.

A handknit wool hat hung from a nearby tree branch. Ari was the knitter in the family. Every time Beth tried to knit, the stitches unraveled, as if by magic, though this was probably due to her being bored out of her mind rather than some secret power. Ari knit pretty lace patterns for all the girls, and manly, ribbed hats and scarves for the boys.

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