Immortal Sacrifice by H.M. Brandon

Author:H.M. Brandon [Brandon, H.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HM Brandon Imagine Enterprises
Published: 2022-07-01T04:00:00+00:00

Tired and hungry, they trudged on.

Zamara slogged after Sideon and Merida. It was slow going through the dense rainforest, humid and hard to breathe, like a wet towel smothered her face. She hadn’t been dry in days. Cassian and Scandronn were out scouting. The former hadn’t spoken a word to her since he learned she drank Sideon’s blood.

Nevrine and Red followed her, a steady presence at her back. Their small contingency of Magai warriors and Western Isles soldiers trailed behind them in a single file line. She instructed the others to guard the ships and replenish supplies.

The blisters on her soggy, aching feet complained with each step. They needed to make camp soon. We are going to starve to death before we ever find these rogue Magai. She growled.

They must be careful and quiet. Trolls had been tracking her company since they descended into the forest, and the beasts had an immaculate sense of smell. The stinking swamp mud her company rubbed all over themselves flaked and itched. Without it, the Trolls could catch their scents from a mile away.

Their pathway, if you could call it that, was uneven, overgrown, and soggy. She swung her Khannas and chopped through hanging vines. The thing about vines was they were not just pretty leaves. They were home to insects of all shapes and sizes. Some of them bit. Hairs graced some of their stems that got embedded into her skin, irritating it. She wished she could burn them, but that would be a beacon straight to their location. The rainforest was a glorious and unforgiving place.

She wondered if Sideon’s sextant worked. They had been at this for over a week. Her sister had been at the mercy of Kain for a moon. Zamara’s stomach twisted into knots, with hunger or worry, she didn’t know. Her heart was weary. She felt the absence of both Rose and Cassian. A ping of anger raced through her. They left her. They left her to carry this burden on her shoulders alone. The weight of the world, just like their father did. Her throat ached.

“Do you feel that charge in the air?” Nevrine stamped his staff into the ground, drawing her attention. He and Red had stopped. She halted and joined them. Nevrine continued, “We are close to the fortress. Which is good, that is where the amulets must be combined.”

“How is that good?” Red slapped his neck. “This damn jungle, it’s pointless is what it is. Without the other stone, this entire trip is futile.” He bared his teeth and snarled. “We risked our lives to get this sextant, and it doesn’t even work! The only thing retrieving it accomplished was assuring we would face an army on our way home. I knew we should never have trusted the pirate.”

“It works.” Sideon appeared at her side. His blue eyes flashed. His dark hair had grown to his chin. He wore rows of war braids to keep it from his face. With his shadow of a beard from their time spent traipsing through the jungle, he looked older somehow, more king-like.

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