Princess of Shadow and Dream by Ellie Raine

Author:Ellie Raine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ScyntheFy Press
Published: 2018-11-12T18:39:21+00:00

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12

SERDIN

A week and a half went by with no new incidents or Aspirrian assassinations.

There had been no sign of Petrin or Ellise again, and no new information had been gleaned about the whereabouts of any Sentient nest.

Today marked the fifteenth day Lucas, Daniel, Myra and I garnered no results from traversing the Weeping Woods, and we were running out of locations to search. The Floating Lights above us in the cavern’s ceiling mist were starting to dim to an evening, bluish hue as we skimmed the foot of the western mountain ridge at the edge of the woods.

Lucas leaned against his horse and grumbled behind his helm’s visor. “Nothing here, either, Serdin. Let’s call it a day already.”

“Agreed,” Daniel said miserably from his makeshift seat atop a short stump. He looked just as exhausted as Lucas, and his leathery wings folded forward around himself to keep warm, his breath fogging through his open visor as he shivered. “Bloods, why are the winds even colder this far into the woods? It’s the middle of summer!”

I knew the reason for the sudden drop in temperature, but kept my mouth shut. This far out in the Weeping Woods, if we searched the rest of the mountain’s base, we would find the cave that was forbidden to speak of to outsiders. That sacred hollow always pulled the nearby heat away.

Myra was having an even worse time with the cold. Although she had wrapped herself in two fur cloaks, three scarves, and a pair of wool gloves that hid her thin fingers, she still trembled vigorously, her teeth chattering as she bent over a boulder with scratch marks and held out her crystal ball toward it. All that appeared in the ball was a vision of a feral mountain lion scraping its claws over the rock, and her shoulders slumped in defeat.

I winced when she trembled with another rabid quake. She’d been a great help this last week, but today seemed to be extra taxing for her. Perhaps I shouldn’t have kept her up so late last night at our routine visits within Aspirre.

She was supposed to be guarding me, but since no new threats had shown themselves lately, we’d taken to having long conversations to pass the time. It was amazing how much history she’d experienced firsthand. Yet it was perplexing how little she’d experience outside of those major events. It seemed a life of isolation in a timeless void stunted one’s social life. And apparently one’s confidence.

There were times when Myra would start a refreshingly witty tangent and then stop mid-rant to apologize. I was sure it was a conditioned response, tragically, though I hadn’t the damndest clue why anyone would tell her to stop being so Bloody funny.

And then there were times where a perfectly common event—even a miniscule shopping spree in the markets—may as well have been the experience of a lifetime. Perhaps ten lifetimes, the way she bounced with glee over the simplest, mundane things. For a woman nearing five-hundred,

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