Valo by Jonathan Kuiper

Author:Jonathan Kuiper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: shapeshifter, coming of age girl, coming of age, faeries, arctic fox, mountain lion, fantasy
Publisher: Manning Lake Press
Published: 2018-05-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

The afternoon sun had begun to set by the time the party had made it to the shores of Moosehead Lake. Keira and company had hiked four hours, far longer than she had expected the journey to take. Thankful for the extra rest, she did feel hungry but kept that to herself, not wanting to have to hear or deal with Luza and her ongoing desire for food.

Riley and Luza had separated from each other after the earlier incident. Riley stayed back with his head down most of the time, while Luza eventually made her way to the front with Keira and Birchard. All three teens and the loon arrived to see a similar sight. There was a vast body of water directly in front of them with no boats or anything to navigate the lake with.

“How does this work exactly?” Keira put her hands in the forty degree water. “I’m not really into the whole swimming thing.”

“You were fine in Manning,” Luza reminded her.

“We didn’t have a choice. It was warmer than this water.”

“Ladies, you don’t have to swim,” Birchard interrupted.

“Are you flying us over?” Keira laughed.

“Ask Bucky. He knows what to do,” Luza looked back at the boy.

Riley ignored the name, but still commented. “I was here in the middle of the night. Even then there’s only one way in and off the island.”

“Wait who said anything about an island?” Keira peered out onto the lake, not seeing anything but shoreline and trees.

“What else did you think we were going to?” Luza said.

“I don’t know. It’s not like anyone here is telling me much of anything. I just assumed we would be going to some great loon nest on the edge of the lake.”

“We don’t have great loon nests. Even the Great Loon might be an exaggeration.”

“How am I not surprised? Are we going to build a raft and row out to a few rocks?”

“Yeah Princess, since last time we were rowed to some rocks —” Luza playfully replied.

Riley stepped away back to the tree line. He looked carefully at the ground for several long moments. Scanning, he leaned down and picked up a small oval shaped stone.

“Skipping stones sounds like a great idea,” Keira was not amused.

“Be patient Princess,” Birchard flew down from Keira’s arm and stood on the small isolated beach.

“Do you want me to do it?” Luza asked.

Riley smirked. “No I don’t. Have you even skipped a stone before?”

“There’s always a first.”

“Maybe later I can teach you.”

“Enough already,” Keira rested her hands on her hips.

Ignoring Keira’s comment, Riley gave Luza a final look before he threw the stone in a side arm motion.

The little stone skipped not once, or twice, or three times, but twenty. Small circular ripples formed in the water, in a perfectly aligned row.

“What did that accomplish?” Keira asked Birchard.

“Now the real fun begins.”

Bubbles, lots of bubbles, formed along the surface. The ripples disappeared completely and from the bubbles a large wooden boat rose to the water level.

It floated one hundred feet off the shoreline.

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