Shock of Fate: A Young Adult Fantasy Adventure (Anchoress Series Book 1) by D. L. Armillei

Author:D. L. Armillei [Armillei, D. L.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Diamond Cove Publishing, LLC
Published: 2017-03-21T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

Day 7: 12:18 a.m., Living World

As the group headed back to Ox’s Bunkhouse, the sky opened and torrential rain pelted them all the way.

Once Van reached her room, she shook off her rain-soaked jacket, then lay on top of her lumpy, mildew-smelling bed. Her body was dead tired, but her mind was restless. Reading before bed always helped calm her so she could fall asleep. She grabbed the translation manual and huddled with Manik’s text. By candlelight, she translated a page Brux hadn’t yet read.

Amaryl’s story bothered her, especially the part where Amaryl had let her people down when they needed her most. What had made Amaryl so pathetic—so stupid—that she handed over control of the Coin to Goustav, a man who ended up murdering her? Did this have something to do with Manik’s warning for the Anchoress not to surrender her Light, meaning the Coin?

Len said Goustav didn’t use the Coin to defeat the demons. Meaning what? He used something else? Van turned to another page; she knew the book had the answers.

Frustrated with the difficulty of translating the Language, she blamed Brux. How could he read the words so easily? The image of Brux with that girl on his lap kept intruding in her thoughts, which irked Van. She didn’t want to care about that.

Brux is a jerk. He’s wrong about my father. Van reached into her pocket, took out the tissue, and carefully unwrapped it. Now that Brux had said her father might be dead, she thought about touching the patch . . . and using her ability to get a reading. She had gotten a vision earlier, while she was hidden in the bushes outside Mt. Hope Manor, when her hand came close to the patch. Emotionally charged objects carried an imprint, allowing her mind to see related scenes of the owner’s life, as if she were there. It didn’t always happen . . . and she couldn’t get a reading when she had touched Manik’s text . . . but if it did work this time . . . she might learn the truth about what happened with her father, at least on the night of the demon attack. Van stared at the patch.

She crumpled up the tissue, tucked the patch into the binding of the text, and concentrated on translating the words onto scraps of parchment she had found in her room. The process was excruciating. She considered going into Brux’s room and throwing the text at his head. But the longer she worked, the easier the translations became.

She shot upright, her nose buried in the text. Len was right. Goustav hadn’t used the Coin to defeat the demons. He’d used the Anchoress! Amaryl had single-handedly defeated the demons! Goustav had done nothing. After reading the text, Van concluded that Goustav had gotten all of the glory, while Amaryl got murdered. This was another reason why the Balish had concealed Manik’s text.

Fascinated, Van continued reading. The book mentioned nothing about an affair. Amaryl would never have been attracted to a loser like Goustav.

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