Legacy in Legend Ebook Trio by Barbara Pietron

Author:Barbara Pietron
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction: Young Adult-Fantasy, Fiction: Young Adult-Paranormal, Fiction: Mythology
Publisher: Scribe Publishing Company
Published: 2018-03-04T00:00:00+00:00

Will you ever begin to understand the meaning of the very soil beneath your feet?

From a grain of sand to a great mountain, all is sacred.

Yesterday and tomorrow exist eternally upon this continent.

We natives are guardians of this sacred place.

—Peter Blue Cloud, Mohawk

Chapter 14

You’re a lousy liar,” Tyler said as they weaved through the parking lot.

“Excuse me if I haven’t made honing that skill a priority,” Jeni spat back at him.

When they reached his car, Tyler opened the driver’s side door but Jeni stood with her arms crossed over her chest. “Where are we going?”

“Get in.”

A gust of wind blew Jeni’s hair across her face and she tossed her head so she could see her cousin. She knew her only choice was to go with Tyler; still she wanted him to know he couldn’t push her around. “Tell me where we’re going.”

“Can we at least talk in the car instead of shouting over the wind?”

“Fine.” Jeni yanked the door open and climbed inside. She wasn’t sure why she was so furious. Hadn’t Tyler just gotten her out of a major jam?

He plugged the key into the ignition but didn’t start the car. “You want to tell me what’s going on?”

“Do you want to know? Think about it before you answer, Tyler.”

The problem was he already knew too much. And he was in a position to either help or hinder—a situation Jeni found excruciatingly frustrating.

Tyler let his head drop back on the headrest with an exaggerated exhale. “Just tell me.”

Jeni relayed her conversation with Ice over breakfast that morning. No beating around the bush; no sugar coating. There wasn’t time for games.

“And here I thought that after you ALMOST DIED you’d leave this alone,” Tyler said.

“You don’t get it, do you? Once I was marked for…elimination, I became a part of this. Whoever tried to kill us knew I was there for the statue. If I’m a threat to this monster, then I have a responsibility to help fight it.” Jeni’s eyes welled with conviction. She looked out the side window.

Tyler sighed. “Where?”

“The boat launch at Itasca State Park.”

They drove west, intermittent lightning exposing the gray skies. Heavy, dark clouds rolled in and packed together like spectators for a sporting event.

Jeni noticed Tyler’s left leg jiggling when he wasn’t shifting gears. He reached and turned on the stereo, letting the CD that was loaded play, but kept the volume low. “So what do you know about this supposed monster?”

She thought back to the day Ice told her about the being her statue represented. It seemed so long ago. “They call it a manitou, or spirit; a being of power. Ice said it was…uh…not inhuman…other-than-human I think is how he described it. They call it the underwater lynx. You remember what my statue looked like?” Tyler nodded and she continued. “It’s an enormous feline monster with horns and scales.”

Jeni shivered. “In my dream, it looked like a huge lizard or a dragon maybe.”

Tyler grunted.

“I guess a long time ago some of the medicine men would seek its help, even though it was a dangerous thing to do.

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