Depths (Tangled Crowns Book 4) by Ann Denton

Depths (Tangled Crowns Book 4) by Ann Denton

Author:Ann Denton [Denton, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781951714154
Publisher: Le Rue Publishing
Published: 2021-01-27T16:00:00+00:00


Camping was not nearly the fun adventure it was made out to be in stories. First of all, it was bitterly cold, and my seamstress, who’d never left Palati, had left me woefully unprepared for that. I rubbed the scales that lined the outsides of my arms, trying to warm myself, even debating if I should swim closer to the surface in order to warm up a bit, despite being told repeatedly that we were just beneath hammerhead territory, and it would be incredibly stupid of me to do so.

The plains were much lower in elevation than Palati, and the water was chilly and dense at this depth. Our tents couldn’t touch the actual sea bed, because that would be far too cold for most of us to survive the night. So instead, our tents were floating cubes attached to anchors buried in the sea floor. I watched Felipe and several other soldiers construct my tent with metal poles, drop the anchor, and then stretch whale skin across the sides to enclose it. There was only a tiny narrow slit for me to squeeze through in order to enter, and the entire thing looked hardly large enough to fit me, though I supposed that meant my body heat would fill the space decently.

Around my tent, my guards set up their own, and though they slept two to a tent, their rigs were the same as mine. I looked outward and realized we had created a little village of bobbing cubes. A smile quirked my lips, and a little sliver of excitement crept back into my frozen bones at that novelty.

Once my guards were finished, Posey and Felipe came to fetch me. They led me upward, swimming to above the little maze of cubes to the spot where the servants prepared our meal. Four magical, smokeless, purple bonfires floated in the water, with no kindling or source other than that provided by the four castle mages. Each mage had a hand pointing at the fire as they muttered some spell or another.

I didn’t know the up or down of it. As much as I’d tried to get a handle on spells when I was younger, as much as I’d dreamt of surprising Bloss and mother—Queen Gela—with my brilliance, I’d never had a single potion go right for me.

“They’re good, aren’t they?” Posey asked, nodding her head toward the flames that I watched.

“Quite,” I agreed with a nod.

“See how they keep the fire steady, unaffected by the current, giving off bright white and violet streams of light? Means they’re doing it right,” Posey added.

“Well, it means Lizza is a good teacher,” I responded. Bloss’s mage, Lizza, had agreed to come down on occasion to coach the four mages that had come from various cities in the kingdom when I’d put out a call. Thus far, a whopping single meeting in, the lessons seemed to be going well. Part of me wanted to ask the mages about what they’d discovered with Radford. He’d been cheery all day, but he was still wearing my necklace.



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