Echoes in the Dark by Robin D. Owens

Author:Robin D. Owens
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Luna Books
Published: 2011-10-23T19:50:10.939000+00:00

25

Creusse Landing

Even with Distance Magic, it took Blossom, Raine and Enerin a while to reach Faucon’s northern estate. It was a beautiful summer’s day, warm and sunny and with a breeze that brought the scents of the changing land beneath them as they flew above trees, flowers, growing crops. There was the richness of turned earth, a whiff of animals and manure: cattle, sheep, pigs.

They flew due west toward the ocean until the sea breeze and the taste of salt was in the air. Then followed the coast until they were flying over the large bay that curved into Lladrana.

Raine was familiar with the coastline from the maps, and from working with the ponds on the southern estate, and dismissed the Distance Magic bubble so she could see the shape of the land where she’d raise the ship and from which the force to destroy the Dark’s Nest would sail. The estate was on the southern coast of the last part of Lladrana that jutted into the ocean, so they would actually have to sail around land before they set course to the Dark’s Nest. They. Her stomach jittered as she realized she was thinking of captaining the boat herself.

It was just projecting herself into the mind of those—or he, or she—who would sail the ship, visualizing the coast. In any event, that first turn around the bulge of land would shake down the crew and the people on the boat. She shook her head. How would restless Alexa cope with hours onboard a ship?

But a ship was the way to go. It could carry stores and the people and volarans and they’d be fresh for the battle of their lives. Everyone seemed to think that the Dark would notice a massive flight of volarans arrowing to it over several weeks.

The ship wasn’t going to be small, more like a galleon or a man of war than a graceful schooner, but Raine would guarantee that it would go faster than the volarans, using the Power stones and the wind Amee would fill the sails with.

Then Enerin cawed, lifted herself from the bag she’d been traveling in and launched herself off Blossom. Raine looked down to see a pretty U-shaped manor house of cream-colored stone, the long bottom of the U faced southeast to the ocean. The landing field was to the east along with several other out-buildings, and a lot of people.

When they circled down to a newly expanded landing field she noted busy activity in setting up more corrals and storage sheds.

Corbeau hurried up, lines in his face smoothing as he met her. He grasped her hands and she heard the beat of his blood that held a note of the sea, just as her blood and her Song—and Faucon’s—did.

“Welcome to Creusse Landing. It’s good to see you again, Seamistress Exotique.”

“You’re back already.”

“I left shortly after you did, but came here.” He glanced around, forehead wrinkling. “Much to be done if we’re going to house an invasion force and stage the debarkation.

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