Wakespire (The Weirkey Chronicles Book 7) by Sarah Lin

Author:Sarah Lin [Lin, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2023-08-03T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

How many hours had it been? Nauda had endured through many tense situations, including pitched battles, but she was exhausted in ways that she had never expected. The initial attack by unknown soulcrafters, which she had expected to quickly escalate into fighting, had instead become a tense standoff.

An hour earlier, one of the Jadadictus Rulers had been taken down. Nauda and Fiyu had been defending their western flank from another avalanche and there had been a stealthy attack from within the clouds. By the time she turned back, the Noveni woman was already injured. Now she lay along with the unconscious Isorales, which just meant that they had even more people they needed to defend.

The worst thing of all was that it was obvious by now that no help would be coming immediately. If anyone from the city had been patrolling this region or watching them, they would already have arrived. So their attackers were free to attack opportunistically and wait for the defenders to wear down. Clearly there was no justice to be found on Noven, either.

Fiyu was the calmest among them, kneeling in the center of their position and focusing on her senses. Nauda simply wasn't capable of waiting patiently like that, and she couldn't leap into action from such a position. Instead she paced. After a while, she paced toward Fiyu.

"Could your stealth technique cover all of us?" Nauda asked.

"I believe it could," Fiyu answered without raising her head. "But we have no means of returning."

"What if I could pull our sleigh out of the rubble?" Nauda knelt down nearby and pointedly didn't look toward its location. "If they didn't know what I was doing, I might be able to get away with it in the confusion."

"I believe they are paying very close attention to us and would not be fooled."

"But we can't let this continue. Could you get there on your own?"

"They are also watching me, but..." Fiyu abruptly yawned, stretching her arms in a broader way than she ever had before, and shifted down onto her side. From that position she looked up. "I am not really tired, Nauda. I am being deceptive."

"Sure, I get it." Nauda reached into her soulhome and pulled out one of their small tents. "Here, use this."

Fiyu crawled into the tent, her body already disappearing as it passed inside. As soon as she had entered, Nauda felt a slight current of wind as Fiyu departed invisibly. Hopefully the movement would be obscured in the general movement of the tent flaps. While trying not to look toward the sleigh, Nauda closed up the tent carefully, just as if Fiyu was really going to sleep.

Behind her, Fiyu must be creeping toward the region still covered in the landslide. She could no doubt make her way over the rocks, with her senses warning her about unstable sections. But how could she get the sleigh free without being noticed? Nauda got up and went to talk to the Jadadictus soulcrafters, trying to think of a plausible way to attract a bunch of attention.

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