Trials by Pedro Urvi

Author:Pedro Urvi [Urvi, Pedro]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-03-31T23:00:00+00:00

Sonea was nearing her destination. From the hill she looked towards the north. On the plain she saw the small fishing village of Three Lakes. Once there, she would begin the last stretch of her journey: to the great lake of Vantoria. How right her dear tutor had been! She had not been prepared for outdoor life, and her journey through the rough land of the Thousand Lakes had been torture. Walking through all those thick forests, abrupt mountains and impassable lakes had been an ordeal for a body which was unused to long walks and sustained physical effort. Luckily she had calculated the length of each journey exactly, making sure she would be able to reach the next village or shelter at the end of the day.

“What the body can’t beat, the mind can master,” she said, pleased with herself. She was very tired, but after three torturous weeks she had managed to get there against all odds, avoiding soldiers and bandits, by calculating the risks involved and carefully planning every day beforehand. Who would say now that a small librarian could not survive the tough, wild world outside? She had almost done it. Half a day more to climb from where she was down to the small fishing village, and she would have made it, using the only resource she had: her intellect.

A noise behind her brought her back to reality. She turned on the trunk she was sitting on and found herself face to face with a huge wild boar with two little piglets following it. She was petrified. By the Gods of Knowledge, it’s an enormous beast! A beast with blackish-brown bristles and evil black eyes. But what really scared her were the tusks. They were huge! She did not even dare blink. As a librarian who had spent all her life among books Sonea knew nothing about wildlife, but she did know one thing: confronted with a dangerous wild animal you had to stay absolutely still. The boar looked at her and grunted. Sonea could not help herself and flinched.

Big mistake.

The boar charged with shrill cries.

I’m lost. Those tusks will tear me to pieces!

The boar was coming towards her at full speed. With no time to think, Sonea looked down at the lakes and a moment before the boar got to her, she made a frantic decision.

She threw herself downhill.

She rolled among pines and bushes, turning endlessly, bumping against the stony ground of the hill, hitting rocks, stones and several trees until she finally plunged into one of the lakes like a rock. On contact with the water pain broke out all over her body from all the cuts and scrapes, and she thought she would lose her mind. She was trying desperately to swim to the surface, to breathe. Panic pushed her out of reach of her agony, she managed to get her head above water and breathe the precious air. She swam to the shore, and managed to drag half her body out of the water before blackness engulfed her.

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