Victima by K R Leikvoll

Author:K R Leikvoll [Leikvoll, K R]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-02T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

Landing on the Kaedan shore was a bit more treacherous than I originally thought it would be. The continent came into sight in the middle of the night a couple days after our meeting. I was having dreams about James and college when Kirin threw open the door nearly giving me a heart attack.

"Val! Wake up!" he yelled, clapping his hands together loudly.

"What's going on?" I mumbled exhausted. I had stayed up late with anticipation and most likely had only slept a few hours. It was killing me inside. Apparently, I was taking too long to get out of bed, because he bundled me into his arms a few seconds later. We went down the hallway and up to the dock. Everyone rushed around us with purpose. Kirin carried me to the bow of the ship and pointed out in front. I climbed out of his arms.

We were sailing along the coastline of a beautiful, green country. It looked so much like Earth that it made me homesick. The trees were massive, like California Redwoods. They blocked the shore's view of the land they were so dense. It looked super dark too—some sort of Blair Witch Project woods. The nature isn’t what everyone was paying attention to, though.

It was the mass of skeletons with bright purple eyes between us and the forest, blocking our path.

There had to be over a hundred of them. Some were over twelve feet tall, others were similar to my size. All were holding various steel weapons. We were outnumbered.

"Why don't we go further down the coast?" I inquired scanning the small bone army. Kirin shook his head.

"We have a contact we need to meet. He might be the only person that knows where the Evyans are. Besides, these are just skeletons. Should be an easy fight with our presence," he said, including me. It had been a while since I used the demonic power or the ring; I was nervous about it.

"What about sacrifice?" I asked anxiously. He told me not to worry about it, but he had been acting so distant in front of others that it seemed like it might be an issue. He didn't want to be seen together. I could bet he didn't want people seeing us exchanging blood. Sacrilege, right?

He grabbed my hand despite everyone around us. "I already told you. Once our feet hit the ground, survival is the most important thing. Naadea was child's play compared to Kaeda. This is the demon capitol; we have to lay waste to them or they'll do it to us," he told me, squeezing my palm.

Lay waste. It almost sounded like he was trying to give me permission to lose control, though looking at all of the skeletons below made me think I might not have a choice. I hadn't really done that before, and it didn’t sound safe. I had a sinking feeling that using the demonic power like that could result in giving Vince more dominion over my mind. Too bad I didn't know how to use any weapons.

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