Raelia (The Medoran Chronicles Book 2) by Lynette Noni

Author:Lynette Noni [Noni, Lynette]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Pantera Press
Published: 2016-03-31T22:00:00+00:00

Time to swim. Don’t forget your raft.

And sweet dreams.

“What does that—”

The rest of Alex’s sentence was drowned out as the ground rumbled beneath them and an entire portion of it corroded under their feet, dissolving away into nothing…

… And they plummeted down into the ravine far, far below.

ky voi ce.

Fifteen

Their screams filled the air as they fell faster and faster. Alex knew none of them would survive the fall, even if they managed to avoid hitting the rocks in the river below. They were too high for the impact not to kill them.

She closed her eyes and waited for the inevitable, but when her torso was suddenly yanked upwards, she shrieked and opened them again, and was astonished by what she was seeing.

Her classmates’ backpacks had each released a parachute, and those parachutes were easing them safely to the ground.

Alex let out an incredulous laugh, and she heard some of the others joining her.

“Everyone okay?” Declan yelled over the sound of the wind and the churning water below.

Alex couldn’t hear everyone’s responses clearly, but it looked like they were all fine. Pipsqueak in particular seemed to be having a grand old time.

As they sailed closer to the water below, Alex began to worry about what would come next.

“Declan!” she yelled. She had to call out twice more before he heard her.

“Yeah?” he yelled back.

“The raft! You have to inflate the raft!”

He couldn’t hear her over the noise, so she tried to mime it out for him. Her attempt failed miserably, so she spelled out the word R-A-F-T in the air. After a few repeats, his eyes widened with realisation and he looked at the crashing rapids below them.

Since his backpack was acting as a parachute, Alex could see he was struggling to reach around and get the raft out. By his third attempt, she was nervously watching the river come closer and closer. When she was low enough to feel the spray on her face, she heard Declan’s victorious exclamation, but that was all she knew before her parachute unattached itself and she fell the remaining distance into the icy mountain river.

Submerged, Alex was tossed and turned as the current dragged her along, unable to draw breath as she was churned through the rapids. Just when she began to fear losing consciousness from oxygen deprivation, something yanked hard on her pack, and she was pulled roughly out of the water and over the side of the inflated raft. After coughing the river out of her lungs and inhaling some much needed air she was able to see that all her waterlogged classmates were already in the vessel, grasping onto the rope-handled sides.

“Can somebody please tell me what this nightmare has to do with Stealth and Subterfuge?” she asked through chattering teeth.

No one could answer her. They all held on for dear life as the raft moved them swiftly along the rapids.

After about half an hour of mind-numbing bumps and repeated body-soaking splashes, the river calmed and they slowed to a more comfortable pace.

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