MEDAR by Manssen S R

Author:Manssen, S R
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ark House Press
Published: 2018-06-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

THE CRYSTAL KINGDOM

Freya was having the most amazing dream: she dreamt she was floating on her back in the black night sky amongst thousands of tiny glittering stars. She gazed around, contented, enjoying her dream, when she spotted something. It was hard to tell, because it was so dark, and the glow from the thousand stars was quite faint, but it looked like Saff floating along beside her, fast asleep. Suddenly, all her drowsiness left her as she realised that she wasn’t dreaming at all. This was real! In fact, she was being carried, for if she concentrated she could feel many hands supporting her, and hear the pitter-patter of numerous feet. And it wasn’t thousands of stars in the night sky; she was in a tunnel, lit by the glow of thousands of tiny lights, glittering in the darkness, softly lighting the passageway.

Instinctively she cried out and tried to sit up. A whisper ran like a sigh through the creatures carrying her, whatever they were, and they tightened their grip on her. She struggled, but the many hands pinned her arms to her sides and her legs together, so that she could not escape them. Resigning herself to go with the flow, so to speak, she closed her eyes and focused on her other senses. The air was warmer than it had been outside, but not at all stuffy.

It smelled faintly earthy—the sort of smell you would expect, being underground—overlain with another, slightly unpleasant odour. She couldn’t place it. Every now and then, something brushed against her face. It tickled, but her arms were pinned to her sides, preventing her from wiping whatever it was off. When she listened intently, she realised that in addition to the slapping noise of the many creatures’ feet and their quiet breathing as they trotted steadily along, she could hear the trickle of water. The sound was getting neither nearer nor farther away; she guessed that there was a tiny stream flowing in the tunnel itself— probably from all the rain seeping through from above. She tucked that piece of information away in the back of her mind.

After a time, she felt a change of movement in her captors: they were slowing down. She opened her eyes again and looked towards her feet. A brighter glow approached—the end of the tunnel. As they passed through the opening, Freya gazed upwards in wonder, for they had entered a massive cavern, lit by much brighter lights, which pulsed and even moved above. Long, sparkling threads dangled down from the lights. The unpleasant odour was stronger in here. She was carried into the centre of the cavern, and then laid on the ground. She immediately sat up and looked around for Saff, only to find him seated not far away from her, blinking, and looking around himself in bewilderment. She wanted to talk to him, to ask if he was all right, and to ask where he thought they were, but the creatures were so quiet that she thought it would be rude to talk.

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