Wild Hunt (The Island Book 2) by C.M. Estopare

Author:C.M. Estopare [Estopare, C.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: C.M. Estopare
Published: 2017-11-05T16:00:00+00:00

20

Diamonds glittered on the high, staggered, ceiling of the Lower City’s colossal cavern. White light filtered in from its mouth, followed by the roar of the waterfalls curtaining the Great River outside. Towering structures of marble, stone, and wood were swallowed by a tumult of rocks. Crushed. The statues that once lined the pathway up to the city now stood in a mountain of rubble that slid down into a city populated by tents.

Yet, life goes on.

“In one day,” Slate said, turning to face them, “meet us there. At the mouth.” He said, pointing.

“And, why?” Chi Chi spat, crossing her arms. “Do you plan to drown us?”

“If the boats don’t sink.” Slate shrugged. Turning on his heel, he left them at the opening to the tent city. Chi Chi bristled as the hustle and bustle of people attempting to live amid chaos crisscrossed before them.

Ren snapped her out of her rage. “Your clinic.” She said, snapping her fingers at her side. “Your clinic!”

“Yes!” Chi Chi barked. “I hear you.” She glued her gaze to Ren’s. “Just, give me a moment to get his slime off of me!”

Ren rolled her eyes. “What’s with you and him?”

Chi Chi dipped her chin to her chest and shook her head.

“They—”

“Ekanna!” Chi Chi roared.

Ekanna clamped her lips shut as Maka chuckled.

“Come on, nosy girl.” Chi Chi grumbled, snatching up Ren’s wrist before diving headfirst into the tangled crowd of tents and people.

Combing through the crowd, Chi Chi asked around in island speak for the clinic before taking hard lefts and rights, losing herself in the jumble of tents and greasy cook-fires. Finding her destination, she slipped beneath the scraggly veneer of a curtain barely covering the square mouth of a substantial tent that glared over the heads of multiple tinier tents in the vicinity. Ren followed, the sickly sweet smell of sickness pervading her nostrils once the veneer shimmied over her head and dropped behind her.

Ekanna and Maka did not follow, the two preferring to meander around outside.

That guardsman cannot be trusted. He works for the Paragon—

Ren’s jaw clenched. Not. Now.

Nakato hushed with a heavy sigh and a low, rumbling, growl.

Thatch bedrolls thrown onto the dirt held patients, those with broken limbs or unsettled organs. Finding her attendant, Chi Chi questioned her rapidly in island speak, talking faster than Ren thought possible for any human. Sighing and shaking her head, Chi Chi dismissed the woman with a curt nod and turned back to Ren.

“Ah, your friend is lucky…” she wouldn’t meet Ren’s eyes, however. “…unfortunately, he is lost.”

“What?” How does a guy in a coma get lost?

“She swears he’s around here…somewhere…”

“How long has this guy—who can barely open his fucking eyes, let alone walk—been missing?” Ren ground her teeth, fire burning behind her eyes.

“She, um, she didn’t say.”

Of fucking course.

Ren stormed out, but thought better of it and turned around, lifting the veneer. “I’ll see you tomorrow.” She meant for the phrase to sound like a goodbye, but it came out as a grunted warning.

Chi

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