Shadowalker (The Ninthborn Chronicle Book 3) by J.E. Holmes

Author:J.E. Holmes [Holmes, J.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Children & Teens
Publisher: Elyssia Books
Published: 2022-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

Javras held her and waited for her to finish, to sit up. At last, she did.

“That was a mess,” she said. “I’m so sorry.”

“Never.” He kissed her forehead, smoothed hair back and kissed it again. “Never that.”

“And I thought Corsen would have been bad.”

He held her hands. “Are you feeling better now?”

“Just the tiniest amount.”

She wiped at her face one more time. Her sleeve was absolutely disgusting now, but she barely cared. She stroked Smudge and got up. Her knees were strong, her stance sturdy. She glared at the doors, those doors that had produced her, through which she had retreated again, through which Ediline could not pass. She let her every frustration transfer to that door, to the woman barring it. She had to do something.

And she recalled her terrible idea.

“You can come with me, or you can stay,” she said. “It’s going to be really dangerous.”

“Ediline, what are you talking about?”

She crossed the hall to the windows, the breaks in Tathia’s perfect prison. And Tathia herself had pointed them out to her. Fear pushed on her, tried to keep her back. Danger! it shouted at her. Yes, that was perfectly logical, but Ediline didn’t yield to logic, and she didn’t yield to fear. She broke them, smashed them, stormed through and on toward becoming whatever she was going to become.

“I have some questions for Tathia. I am done waiting around.”

“She will be back.”

“You’re right. But I’m not operating on her timeline anymore. I’m not going to let her dictate everything.”

“Princess, you are distraught, I understand.”

“Oh back off. This isn’t about that.”

“Even so, you’re shaken. Is this the best state for you to be making a decision like this?”

No, probably not. “I . . . I will not wait around.” She finally turned to face him. He looked so concerned, so worried for her. It stalled her like icy water. “You’re my just-in-case.”

The worry in his face lessened. “What are you planning?”

“Tathia’s stone is preventing me from shadowalking past it.” Her eyes drifted to the window, the glass through which the evening sky looked down on Nerebek.

“You are mad, my love.”

“Absolutely.”

“You’re confident you can do it?”

Before, she would have lied. Now, she said honestly, “Yes.”

“I follow your lead.”

She pushed the window open. Cool wind gusted into the hall, billowing her clothing and tousling her hair. It felt good on her head, on the sweat-stuck parts of her clothes, after raging and crying.

Fear nearly strangled her. She had to fight through it just to reach the window, had to kick and throw it off of her again to lean forward and to look down. But then she was able to shut her eyes, her head just outside the window, and she felt the darkness all around her, and it was like breathing pure, fresh air. The moon was on the other side of the palace. Straight down this wall was nearly black. And she felt her connection to it, through it, into the void, into Nowhere, out into the rest of Lanen.

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