Legend of Ecta Mastrino Box Set by B J Hanlon

Author:B J Hanlon [Hanlon, B J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-05T22:00:00+00:00

Edin coughed and a deluge of salty sea water erupted out of his lungs. His throat triggered another gag and he spewed more out of his stomach.

His head swam and his eyes burned. He squeezed his hand and felt wet sand crush between his fingers. Edin rolled to his back and blinked. His sight was blurry and his eyes stung. Tears tried forming, needing to wash away whatever was in his eyes. Edin groaned and rubbed them for a moment before his tired arms collapsed to the sand with a splat.

It was daytime and he was on a beach. Waves lapped near him and the sun bore through his eyelids from high above.

His body throbbed but felt uninjured.

Edin took a breath before he got his first thought of Arianne. Her laying in his arms supposedly to share body heat. It wasn’t true. She cared for him, how much she cared though was the question. Somehow, he’d get her to tell him.

Where was she?

“Arianne?” Edin croaked. He waited for her response. Nothing came. “Arianne?” His mouth tasted like he devoured an entire mound of preserving salt. He needed real water.

Edin realized he wasn’t wearing his pack.

His hand reached up for his necklace, for the crillio fang. He needed to feel it, the comfort of the memories it brought.

It was gone. His looked up and stared directly into the sun, blinding him.

Then he remembered the kiss… the jump and the rapids.

“Arianne?” Edin glanced around, his heart leaping and his stomach doing flips. He was on a beach, with trees a few yards behind him. In front of him was a blue ocean, a lighter blue than he’d imagined. And further too, ending at the horizon. It looked like a blue dish with only small white lines crossing its vast expanse like rungs on a ladder.

Where was he? Where was she? Edin thought. He stood, there’d been a beach on Halecon Lake he’d been to, though it was rocky and smelled of fish. This was nicer.

Then he noticed far down the beach… barely on the beach actually, was what at first looked like a large boulder. Edin rubbed his eyes.

Boulders weren’t wood. A ship?

“Pirates,” he whispered. Could that be their ship?

Edin stood and dropped his hand to the hilt of his sword. It was gone. He looked around for something, anything. His pack, the fang… the weapon. It was all gone. Then he felt a lump attached to his belt. He found the coin purse Arianne had given him. “How in the…” Edin clutched it and grimaced.

Someplace in that deep sea was everything but himself. Was Arianne there too? The thought sent chills down his spine. Did he lose everything by forcing her to leap from that cliff?

Edin stared at the ship and clenched his jaw. If that was the pirate ship… it was their doing not his and Edin wanted thank them...

He clenched and unclenched his fists as he trekked across the sand.

Edin didn’t look around, he kept his eyes on the ship as it grew larger on the edge of the beach.

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