A Twist of Fates by Bella Forrest

Author:Bella Forrest [Forrest, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-08-02T23:00:00+00:00

Ben

“Lucas!” we continued to roar, even though it was obvious he had gone.

“What the hell?” my father said, whirling on Ibrahim. “I didn’t know they could just vanish like that!”

“As I said,” Ibrahim said, who looked close to hyperventilating, “these marsh dwellers are a kind of spirit. That means they’re not wholly physical beings. That’s why they are so dangerous, and why I told everybody to stay within my protection.”

“Oh, God,” Jeramiah breathed. “What now? Where do we even begin to look for him?”

Ibrahim exhaled, rubbing his hands over his face. “We need to find their township. Marsh dwellers tend to live together, so there must be some kind of residential area here. I suggest that we take to the sky again and try to find some clues from the air.”

The warlock lost no time in raising the group from the forest ground up through the trees, toward the sky, while Kailyn and I moved up of our own accord.

“What do you think she plans to do to him?” Claudia asked.

“Let’s not think about what they might do to him, and instead focus on finding him,” Ibrahim said through gritted teeth.

We scanned the tops of the trees, looking for any telltale signs. The trouble was, I wasn’t even sure what telltale signs to look for.

“What kind of residences do they have?” I asked. I could hardly imagine them having buildings.

Ibrahim shrugged. “I guess they would be built from trees, and other natural resources available to them in this place.”

After ten minutes of scanning, we still hadn’t spotted anything. Ten minutes of God knew what kind of hell my uncle was going through. I didn’t think that an hour more of searching was going to make a difference either. The canopy of leaves was simply far too thick. There could be a teeming township beneath us right now, and we would never know.

Thus, we had no choice but to return to the forest, once again enveloped by the moist, tree-clustered world.

“It’s just my father’s luck,” Jeramiah muttered bitterly.

Yeah, I guessed one could say that Lucas’s luck in general was crappy. Anyone who had spent two decades in The Underworld would have to have some pretty inauspicious star alignments.

“So what now?” I asked.

“Just be quiet for a moment,” Ibrahim whispered, his eyes widening and his lips parting in concentration.

Everybody held their tongues, barely even breathing, as the sounds of the marsh dwellers’ realm engulfed us. The calm trickling of the brooks, the whispering of the trees, the chirping of insects.

And then there was something more that I picked up on. Something else… a humming. Low and melodious, it was drifting from somewhere in the distance, from the east.

Ibrahim jerked his finger in its direction. “That way,” he said.

We began hurrying through the wetland as fast as we could travel. Even now that we’d gained a sense of direction, we still had to travel beneath the trees or we wouldn’t spot anything otherwise.

The humming grew eerier as it grew louder. It was the combination of at least a dozen voices, all of them high-pitched.

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