Seeker by Sam Ryder

Author:Sam Ryder [Ryder, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-19T06:00:00+00:00

TWELVE

LEARNING IMPORTANT NEW SHIT.

The waterslide couldn’t have ended in a nice, lazy river for me to float down.

Of course not.

I clung to a few protruding rocks at the end of the line, where the stream tumbled off a thirty-foot cliff into a pond that looked deep, but which could be as shallow as a kiddie pool for all I knew.

Climbing down wasn’t really an option this time. I was strong and had become a decent climber here on Tor, but this was next-level Cliffhanger shit, the descent to the bottom full of overhangs that didn’t seem to have much more than fingernail-sized hand and footholds. And I was no Stallone.

Beyond the pool were high, steeply sloped hills and then an unforgiving landscape lit by the golden sun. Before my gaze reached the horizon, I saw the tendrils of smoke, interspersed across the land, twisting and curling into the sky.

I didn’t know what to make of that.

I watched my amulet, which was moving slightly from right to left. I could only tell it was moving if I stared at it for a long time. The red crystal was moving at a pace measured in millimeters per minute. Still, the meaning wasn’t lost on me. Vrill, and presumably her dragon, were on the move. All I knew was they were somewhere past the mountain. What I couldn’t tell was whether they were moving toward me or away, or simply parallel to the range.

The amulet began to move back the other way, toward center. Strange. Was it going berserk again? I didn’t think so. The last time it had moved it had seemed random, spinning in meaningless circles. Now its movements were slow and subtle. No, this thing was tracking Vrill. She just wasn’t moving in a straight line, carving a path that looped and wound. Which meant she could be on foot, following a trail that wended its way through the smaller hills and mountains that stood before me. Or she was on dragonback and her dragon was taking her on a joyride, cutting back and forth while she whooped and hollered. Maybe she’d managed to escape the Morgoss on her own and was now having the time of her life.

Unlikely, but I’d been surprised on this planet before.

As I stared in the direction the amulet was pointing, I tried not to think about the sharp fangs I felt biting into my lips. What was I?

~~~

VRILL

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