Eloy's Legacy by Kara Timmins

Author:Kara Timmins [Timmins, Kara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780578577470
Publisher: Kara Timmins
Published: 2019-11-13T22:00:00+00:00

45

The day got hot fast. Eloy could feel the sweat collecting in his beard. The days spent lounging around had made the quick step of travel that he was once used to more difficult than he remembered. He tried to get control of his huffs of exertion, but thinking about it only made it worse.

“The tree I climbed when I saw Timyr’s house isn’t much farther ahead,” Neasa said.

“Then we turn west,” Malatic said.

Neasa nodded. “How much farther is this thing you sense, Timyr?”

“It’s a ways away still.” Timyr crouched down and sat cross-legged, the foliage reaching up to his chest, and he closed his eyes.

Eloy, Neasa, and Malatic stood around and looked down at Timyr, and they waited. Eloy glanced over the wash of the forest green, not really taking any of it in.

Timyr jumped back up. “Whatever the danger is, it’s still in that area. Definitely directly toward where we need to be going to get to this black rock. While having whatever it is out there isn’t ideal, it’ll make it easy to navigate the way. Shall we?”

“Ready,” Neasa said.

Eloy took the first step west, and the other three followed.

When they got into a territory they had never been in before, Neasa started looking at things they passed with more interest.

Eloy slowed his gait to accommodate her, but also to fall in step with Timyr. “How familiar are you with the things that live out here?”

“Pretty familiar,” Timyr said. “I try to stay to my area because I know it best and I brought most of what I need to the house, but I venture out from time to time. There’s danger all over this forest. Survival in nature is violent.”

“Then we need to be more careful than we’re being now,” Eloy said.

“Maybe, but slinking around sends its own message. Everything living and watching, keeping an eye out, reads actions differently. We should be fine for now. I didn’t sense much disruption earlier. There’s something roaming around to the north of us, but nothing that would take much interest. It doesn’t have a taste for people.”

Eloy held out his opened water bladder. “Here’s to being bitter.”

Timyr grabbed his water canister dangling at his side, opened it, and lifted it toward Eloy. “To being bitter.”

The two took a drink together and continued on.

With Timyr’s help and guidance, they made good time by early evening. Neasa ran up behind Eloy. “How much farther did you want to go for the day?”

“There’s still enough light left to go on a little longer,” Eloy said.

“It would be a good idea if we set up camp,” Neasa said.

Eloy stopped walking and turned to face her.

She held his gaze with a strange squint of defiance.

“Everything okay, Neas?” Eloy asked.

She softened. “Everything’s fine.”

“You’re right,” Eloy said, “we should probably make camp early. Wouldn’t want to push it too much and be too sore tomorrow after all the time we’ve spent lounging around.”

“Exactly what I was thinking.” Neasa turned and walked back to Malatic.

Eloy glanced at Timyr, who was on his haunches next to a tree chewing on something from his pack.

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