Sand and Stars: A Fantasy Romance (Winged Mates Book 1) by Olivia Hart

Author:Olivia Hart [Hart, Olivia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2021-07-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

“The vision is the same,” I said as I took my hand off the spear. Marcellus and Teffin nodded with smiles on their faces. “You kill the ifrit. It explodes.”

Today was the last day before the battle. Marcellus had trained every day. He could have gone through the movements with his eyes closed. He’d gone through the same motions close to a thousand times over the course of the two weeks since he’d found the correct pattern of movements that would give him success.

He felt confident. Teffin felt confident. I didn’t feel confident at all. These visions were changeable. All that it would take was one mental side-step from anyone, and everything would be different.

And Marcellus would die.

I looked the man over again. He looked the same as he had the first day that I’d seen him. The same arrogant smile on his lips. The same long, roguish black hair. Same stance.

He didn’t feel the same. I cared about him now. I saw the hero in him, not the villain. I saw the man that held back the monster.

And I didn’t want him to die.

Something inside me was screaming that he was missing something, that we were all missing something vital. “Something is wrong,” I said finally, not able to hold it back any longer. “Something about all of this is too easy, too simple.”

“That’s what happens when you have a seer, girlie,” Teffin said. “That’s why a seer is so valuable to a commander. Makes a whole lot of things easy.”

“He’s right, Talia. A seer can help to win unwinnable battles with almost no casualties. It seems simple and easy what you’re doing, but it’s powerful and rare.”

I sighed. I didn’t feel right about it all. I’d felt a sense of growing dread since the night in the bath. I didn’t know what it was, but I was sure that something was wrong.

But I was just a stupid girl in their eyes still. “I wish you’d listen to your damned seer then,” I said through gritted teeth.

“What would you have us do, Talia?” Marcellus asked. “Have you had another vision?”

I shook my head. “It’s a feeling. Like we think that we’re hunting a rabbit, but there’s a larger beast using the rabbit as bait. Like death is here and waiting for us.”

Marcellus and Teffin glanced at each other, finally taking me seriously. “There ain’t anything we can do though, girlie,” Teffin said. “The Prince can’t hesitate, can’t wait to see what the beast does. He has to act without thinking.”

I bit my lip. “I don’t have the answer, but we’re missing something important.”

I looked around the training area, breathing deeply, and I closed my eyes. I knew that Marcellus and Teffin were watching me, but I tried to ignore them. I needed to know what it was that I was missing.

Still, nothing came to me. I shook my head. “I don’t know what it is, but something is very wrong,” I said without looking at them.

Teffin sighed and when I turned around Marcellus was staring at me.

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