Untamed Eclipse (A Song of Sun and Shadow Book 2) by Raven Flanagan

Author:Raven Flanagan [Flanagan, Raven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-04-03T16:00:00+00:00

Twenty-Three

At the very center of my being, I sensed dawn’s approach. When the first rays of morning light crested over the far-away horizon, that warmth, so seemingly out of reach, seeped into the depths of my bones. A golden light gradually expanded from my chest through my limbs.

With the strength of the sun, I found the willpower to return to my mind once again. I peered down from the eyes of a monster, and what I awakened to find sent a bolt of terror streaking through my chest and knotting in my gut.

I’d pinned Deimos to the stone floor beneath my claws. Blood dribbled from the corner of his mouth. Perspiration and dirt coated his skin in all the places he wasn’t bleeding from gaping gashes. His hands strained with the effort of keeping the claw from crushing him like an insect.

At once I tossed out a mental tether on the roiling power pressing tight on my skin. Inhaling a deep breath, I sucked it all back, drawing every ounce of fury within myself.

The monstrous hand on Deimos fell limp. The body encasing mine lost tension in every muscle. As the beastly form of Hestra perished around me, limbs and wings all went crashing down onto the stone floor.

The ground rumbled as that horrendous beast landed in an unceremonious heap of twisted arms and jagged wings jutting out at odd angles.

Everything faded to black as I lost my sight and shrank into myself within the beast. Remembering what would come next, I fought the heavy paralysis in my limbs. I needed to move, and I needed to move now.

Wriggling against the slimy innards of Hestra’s monster, I slowly found my strength returning. First, my fingers twitched, and then my arm jerked. My eyes flared open, but everything remained dark.

Every innate part of my mind and body had reformed within the monster’s chest. Now I needed to break free.

As I had so many times since the night I died in the river, I called up the power of the sun and the shadows to escape. If I didn’t burst free soon, the body would wither away with me inside of it.

My hand pressed against flesh, pushing and clawing at the weakening tissue. Right as I gathered enough power to blow through the meat of the monster, light exploded into my eyes.

One heavy swing of a sword tore open the guts of Hestra’s monster. Strong hands curled around my arms, carefully yanking me from the tangled insides clinging to my body. Hot, heavy entrails released me from their repulsive hold. Strings of slimy gore and viscera kept us connected until those powerful arms pulled me further away from the decaying corpse of an abhorrent creature of scales and feathers.

I tried blinking away the haze from my vision. Before I saw my surroundings, I heard the panting breath and wildly beating heart of the man cradling me. With my ear to his chest, I caught every manic beat of his heart.

My sense of smell returned before my eyesight.

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