Harbinger: Fate's Forsaken: Book One by Shae Ford

Author:Shae Ford
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781480139978
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2012-07-29T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

The Wright Arises

Kyleigh should have known how the pirates would react. She should have known that when she leaned back and said that the skinny, redheaded boy before them was the answer to all of their problems, that they would laugh. That Lysander would double over and Thelred would guffaw loudly from his corner.

She should have known better than to embarrass him like that.

“Oh Kyleigh, you’ve always been a merciless prankster,” Lysander said as he wiped the tears from his eyes, still chuckling.

She didn’t say anything: she just stared him down, a small smile on her face. Under the weight of her look, his grin faded away, slowly, until it was replaced by a frown.

“You’re serious?” He glanced at Kael. “And why do you think he’s the answer?”

“Because he’s a whisperer.”

And that dried up every stray giggle in the room. Lysander’s mouth fell open and Thelred muttered: “Impossible.”

“Is it?” She sauntered over to him. Her head barely came to Thelred’s shoulder, yet he stepped to the side rather than allow her to pin him in the corner. “How else do you think he undid your little magic trick, hmm? If he isn’t a mage, then he’s got to be —”

“A whisperer,” Lysander breathed. There was calm understanding on his face. “Red? Get Morris.”

Thelred hurried out the door, no doubt eager to put as much distance between himself and Kyleigh as possible.

“What magic trick? And how did I undo it, exactly?” Kael asked as soon as he was gone.

“Whisperers are the natural enemies of the mages,” Lysander explained. “Magic has no effect on a whisperer: he can tear spells apart with his bare hands. And it wasn’t so much a trick as it was an … unfortunate side effect.” He smiled grimly. “I’m afraid that I’m a cursed man.”

Annoying as Lysander was, Kael didn’t doubt that someone had cursed him.

“Yes, I’ve heard about that,” Kyleigh said. She’d kicked off her boots and was now sitting behind the desk, her bare feet propped on a thick tome entitled Nautical Abnormalities. “And what sort of mischief did you get yourself into, exactly?”

“Wendelgrimm,” he sighed.

She grinned widely. “Oh you silly, silly pirate. You ought to have known better.”

“What’s in Wendelgrimm?” Kael said, intrigued.

Lysander groaned. “The Witch of Wendelgrimm. The old hag’s been alive for at least a thousand years. She has her fortress perched on top of a cliff, overlooking the village of Copperdock.” He tugged a wrinkled map of the Kingdom out from under Kyleigh’s heel and pointed to a small peninsula. Tiny docks fanned out around it, and in the forest above lurked a dark, spindly castle. He tapped the castle and said: “That’s Wendelgrimm. There used to be a family of whisperers who lived in Copperdock, and they kept her at bay for generations. But after the War …”

They’d been sent to Midlan, Kael thought, where they were never heard from again. “So with the family gone, the Witch attacked the village?” he guessed.

Lysander nodded. “She cursed the villagers and keeps them still as her prisoners.

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