Zarik: Science Fiction Adventure Romance (Conquered World Book 12) by Elin Wyn

Author:Elin Wyn [Wyn, Elin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Clockwalk Publishing
Published: 2019-09-18T16:00:00+00:00

“Just follow that direction and you’ll be there soon enough,” Arken said, pointing into the distance. Just a stone’s throw from the walls of the settlement, the vegetation rose again, green and wild and ready to claim what belonged to Mother Nature.

Or to the Puppet Master, really, if what I understood about that situation was correct.

“Thank you so much,” I said, my eyes jumping from Arken to his wife. The two had accompanied me and Zarik to the edge of their settlement, and had even given us some food for breakfast.

They had insisted for us to share breakfast with them, but both Zarik and I were too restless to accept their invitation.

We were close to finding some answers, and were aching to do so.

After promising Arken we’d come and visit one day in the future, Zarik and I finally started marching northwest. It didn’t take long before he noticed a trail.

“Right there, see it? A few branches are broken, and some of the damage goes as high as your shoulders. That means someone around your size has walked through here. Probably someone from Arken’s family, or maybe one of the guys we’re chasing after. Either way, I’m willing to bet this trail will lead straight toward the abandoned buildings Arken told us about. All we have to do is follow it.”

“Let’s do it, then.”

“Are you sure you want to come with me?” he asked me, looking at me with a hesitant expression. “You can wait for me in the settlement. I know Arken and his family would be happy to have you, and I can follow this trail by myself and—”

“No,” I stopped him. “I want to see where the trail leads. And I want to be there when you find the lab or whatever that place was. I want to see it with my own eyes. Maybe that way I’ll remember everything.”

More than anything, I needed to know who exactly was behind it all.

“Very well.” Grabbing his backpack, Zarik opened it and retrieved a small hatchet.

Suddenly I realized it only seemed small because he was holding it with those massive hands of his: the hatchet looked heavy enough for me to know I wouldn’t have been capable of wielding it.

Using it to cut a path for us, he set the pace as we marched forward. My mouth grew dry as I felt twigs breaking under my boots, thorny bushes ripping at my shirt as we went, and flashes of my escape from the lab danced behind my eyes. Still, I gritted my teeth and pressed on. I was tired of being weak. I needed to take back control and start facing the situation head on.

“Are you sure you know where we’re going?” I found myself asking Zarik after an hour or so. He seemed to know the exact direction we should follow each time he swung his hatchet. As for me, I still couldn’t see the supposed marks of the trail.

I knew Arken had told us to head northwest in a straight line, but it was hard to have any sense of direction this deep in the woods.

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