Storm of Fury: Storm Warden Chronicles Book 3 by Jessica Gunn

Author:Jessica Gunn [Gunn, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

As soon as we were in the clear, Cora and Kristian retreated below deck. Eli worked on steering the boat. Amongst supernaturals and those skilled at seemingly everything, I was beginning to feel rather useless. So far in the journey to regain my magic, I’d only been good at running away, being enthralled by the fae’s very presence, and generally being in the way.

I sat with Zezza still on my shoulder, looking out at the horizon as the sun began to set in the fae weave. Even with my magic, before the Tempest had taken it, I’d still been so new to it and the world. I understood it took time and skill to master magic the way the others had. But it always simply felt like I needed to be faster—better than what was expected. Especially with the fate of the world at stake, with the Makers poised to make their return.

I’d still fight. And it was less because of my duty and more because I knew what would happen if no one fought at all.

The sun had almost set, sending the last waves of oranges and pinks over the tops of the water. We’d been lucky so far with calm waves and no storms. Although I was pretty sure that Cora’s and Eli’s magic combined could guide us through even the worst storm.

Maybe that was part of my issue right now. Eli was supposed to be my Guardian, the both of us this generation’s pair. Yet the ease in which his magic had melded with Cora’s to aid our escape from the fae village had me questioning if maybe he wasn’t actually Cora’s. She might have had her own Guardians decades ago, before she’d been exiled from the Lair. To be honest, I wasn’t exactly sure how old she even was. Cora had sired Kristian, and I knew Kristian was at least two hundred years old, if not older.

“Hmm,” I said aloud.

It didn’t add up. Cora had definitely had her own Guardian.

But then why did her and Eli’s magic meld so well? Because they were two parts of the same whole, just from different times? Or was it simply because I was Cora’s copy? Her doppelgänger. Her, but raised by humans.

My eyes stung with tears, but I swallowed them back. With everything that had happened since getting the truth from my parents in Winter’s Reach, I hadn’t had time to truly process the thought that I was a doppelgänger. I had my own memories, my own life. Nothing about me was Cora except my appearance and our shared destinies as Wardens of the Storm.

Why, then, was I starting to think I was simply nothing more than an echo of her?

“Hey.”

I looked up, snapped out of my thoughts, to find Cora standing before me in the setting sun. A tear slid down my cheek and I wiped it away hastily. “Shouldn’t you be below deck?”

She shrugged, then outstretched her arms in the low sunlight, as if soaking it in.

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