Winterfast: A Tale of Fantasy and Magic (Bridge of Legends Book 4) by Sarah K. L. Wilson

Author:Sarah K. L. Wilson [Wilson, Sarah K. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-04T16:00:00+00:00

14: Chase through Bones and Ash

Marielle

They'd been two steps ahead of them all night - maybe more. Every time Marielle turned a corner and found another body strung up, she knew they were doing this all wrong. They should be setting up a trap somewhere instead of chasing the Harbingers through the streets. She wasn't even certain what they were doing or why they were killing people.

"I didn't know there were so many people in the city still," Marielle gasped as they cut down another body hanging from a roof sign.

"They're the kind of people who had nowhere to go and nothing to go to," Etienne said, but she could hear the hurt behind his words. He cared about the people of the Dragonblood Plains the way a farmer cared about his animals. He felt responsible for the fact that they were being slaughtered like this for no reason. As if it were his job to protect them. She felt the same.

"It would be better to lay a trap for them," Marielle said. She felt her tattoos gingerly. Strange that the Legends hadn’t used them again to call her to them. Perhaps they were biding their time, or perhaps they had merely given up that tactic.

"We have. Tamerlan and Jhinn sit in that pool like ducks on a pond. When one of them starts screaming, we'll know the Legends have descended."

"Then we should be there with crossbows and bolts or a net, or something, instead of out chasing shadows," Marielle said. She was still worried about the Windrose. Why would they give up that great tool against her? Unless they were planning something else? "This is acting foolishly rather than wisely.”

Etienne laughed wryly. "It was your idea to hunt them like this. What made you want to be gone from that square so badly, anyway? Is it hard to watch your beloved going mad?"

"Who said he was my beloved?" Marielle asked, trying to seem flippant. It was hard to sound like that when all she felt was tense.

His expression when she left had broken her heart. He hadn't realized that she was doing it for him – saving him from Etienne's wrath, trying to give him time and space to read that book and find answers instead of continually giving himself for other people. But he hadn't looked grateful. He'd looked heartbroken. He hadn't taken her words to Etienne seriously, had he?

She bit her lip as she remembered it. But it was the kind of thing he might believe – Tamerlan with the sensitive heart who had been kicked again and again by the people he cared about – he would think that she didn't care just because she spoke about cold facts instead of how she felt. But maybe it was better for him like this – maybe he didn't need a distraction like her anyway. He'd given up too much to save her again and again. Maybe if she left him alone for a little while, the spell

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