Jessa and the Lost Goddess by Becca Fox

Author:Becca Fox
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fantasy, romance, adventure
Publisher: Becca Fox
Published: 2022-04-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

There was a terrifying moment where I felt suspended in the air. Then I was tilting forward. My hands hit the slanted earth and one of my wrists cracked under the weight of my body. Pain burst into existence, traveling up my arm at a jarring speed. I didn’t have time to shout. Next thing I knew, I was rolling down a steep slope.

Something struck my head. Then my shoulder. Then my hip. Then my knee. Dirt found its way into my eyes and mouth. Coughing and squinting through watery eyes, I reached out with my good hand and clawed at the earth. My fingers found their way around a tree root. My body came to an abrupt halt, half of which hung precariously over a ledge.

“Ms. Copeland,” Eckersley shouted from somewhere above me. “Jessa!”

I craned my neck to search for his face. Through the hair and dirt obscuring my vision, I saw the trail I’d left on the gradient. The earth had been disturbed in a jagged line; the bushes growing along the incline were missing leaves and small branches; the rocks I’d no doubt struck were swiped clean of dirt or moss. The root I was clinging to belonged to a small tree, the roots of which dipped in and out of the soil like sea serpents in the ocean.

Way up high was the cliff face where the earth flattened out, where the trees and the fog and everything else was. Including Eckersley. He came limping up to the precipice, using a tree branch as a cane. He peered down at me.

“Are you all right?” His voice echoed down to meet me.

“Yes.” I heaved myself up as best as I could with only one arm, until my legs were no longer dangling over empty air. Lying there on my belly in the dirt, I tried to collect my scrambled brains.

“Can you climb?” Eckersley asked.

“I’m not sure.” I rolled onto my back and raised my arm to examine my wrist. It was swollen and tender to the touch. I flinched. “I think I broke my wrist.”

“Grand,” was the weary response. “Give me a moment to think.”

I attempted to sit up next. My head started spinning, prompting me to slowly lower myself back to the ground. “It’ll be fine. I just need to rest. If I’m careful, I’m sure I’ll be able to make the climb one-handed.”

Lightning streaked across the sky. The thunderclap sounded a moment later and then the rain came pouring down. I was soaked through within a heartbeat.

“Damn you, Anwyl,” I hissed. “How can you control the weather? You’re only the Love Goddess.”

“It was already going to rain,” Anwyl’s disembodied voice said somewhat defensively. “I simply helped it along. Anything can be done for love.”

“I don’t know what you were complaining about.” I sat up again and slowly turned, settling down over my knees. “It seems to me that you have plenty of power here in the land of mortals.” I gazed up the incline, wondering how in the world I was going to make the climb now.

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