Fated Magic (The Fated Saga Book 2) by Sariah Skye

Author:Sariah Skye [Skye, Sariah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-11-22T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

I screamed in terror as I splashed head first into a freezing black abyss. The cold was surprising and enveloped me with an unwelcome shock. Still blurry from the portal displacement I blinked with confusion. My lungs felt heavy as I gasped desperately for air.

Something under me poked me in the rump and propelled me upwards. It was a matter of seconds before I saw a bright, hazy light and felt my lungs free themselves as they escaped the cold.

I sucked in a deep breath, as I finally was able to open my eyes without struggle. Instinctively, my legs were kicking forwards and back, my arms and wings now outstretched at my side and I realized that we were about one hundred feet off a rocky shoreline; bluish hued water outstretched around us. I managed to look towards the east, and the sun was orange, barely raising over a tall lighthouse that spun it's light over the water.

“Splitrock,” I said, quickly recognizing the Minnesota landmark. Obviously we'd been dumped into Lake Superior instead of Castle Danger.

A gasping breath came from nearby and, Maxxus' human head surfaced. He shook the water out of his eyes and raked the hair out of his forehead, slicking it back with his hands as he treaded water. Dragons weren't great swimmers instinctively; we were big and clumsy. Swimming was better left to the human forms. “Are we far from Castle Danger?”

Not able to think with the chill of the fifty-degree water gripping at my legs, I pointed towards the shore. “Swim first. Questions later.”

Maxxus nodded and we swam with struggle to the smooth, pebbled shoreline. I swore as one of my feet caught a large rock under me, but I continued, hoping it wasn't cut. There were no sharks in Lake Superior, were there? It was certainly large enough for sharks...

We climbed out of the water, just noticing about ten feet away were two humans wearing jackets and hiking boots were standing, cross armed staring at us.

“Are you insane?” It was a male and a female—probably in their early thirties. The female looked on, eyes agog.

I forced a chuckle. “It was a dare.”

“Mighty stupid, ever heard of hypothermia?” He eyed Maxxus' naked form as he collapsed with heavy breath onto the rocks.

“You're exaggerating. We've done this before.” I offered them a sweet smile and looking in each of their eyes briefly, I had the thought Move along, nothing to see here.

The male and female human looked at each other with confusion and, with a shrug, they turned and walked away back into the treeline nearby.

“That is fucking cold!” Maxxus cried out, rolling over and burying his face with wry laughter into the stones. Lake Superior had no sand, but millions upon millions of smooth worn rock from hundreds of years of waves rolling back and forth over them. The entire beach was covered with various sizes of rock in different shades of brown, gray, cream and black; and several wave-worn logs dotted the shoreline.

“It is,” was all I said, eying the horizon briefly.

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