The Deivorous Temeration of Vilor by Liese Adler

Author:Liese Adler [Adler, Liese]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fantasy adventure
Published: 2019-05-25T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

It was just after midnight and most of the others would be asleep for several more hours. The conjoined pair decided to check on the bridge and see who was piloting. The Quartermaster turned when Chelin approached and accused more than asked, “What was all that racket a bit ago?” then turned back to the helm.

“Um, the doctor and I were just having a discussion about where we’re going,” her wordstream wavered awkwardly on account of leaving out some rather important details. The Quartermaster’s curiosity seemed satiated anyway.

Their course took them westward over the Aphem Ocean, but much farther south than her recent trip to Aovra. Skylands were more common here and they passed several remote villages and hanging forests as the ship thrust swiftly through the night.

They made small-talk with the Quartermaster and watched ghostly clouds drift below them. The lonely stratowhale’s song made for an eerie accompaniment to the dark world flowing below them. At around three o’clock in the morning, the first mate, an Althraxa named Mr. Jiven as it turned out, relieved the Quartermaster. Several conversation topics were repeated.

Just as the golden dawn crested behind them, the shadow of Mr. Lanes loomed below and distracted Chelin from Vivia’s entrance to the bridge. She started when the captain’s assertive voice crashed over her suddenly, “Why has the good doctor occupied you, Ms. Vesper?”

She’d been sitting on the step and gazing out the front but quickly clamored to her feet and addressed the captain promptly, if not very tactfully, “It was an accident!” Feeling suddenly foolish, Chelin found herself in awe of the poignant way the captain had about her. Such a dauntless bearing!

Even though Chelin had grown up in her father’s shadow and had been wielding her own dazzling presence as a Courtesan for years, the captain put them all to shame. Everything about the way she spoke and moved activated some obsequious element in those around her. Eloy, she noticed, had already taken to following the captain around like an assistant. Chelin could learn a thing or two!

Vivia leaned forward, invading Chelin’s space so completely that she was forced to lean back in response. The captain’s eyes narrowed and examined Chelin intensely. “Explain.”

She stumbled over her words in an attempt to get them all out at once, “We wanted to try an experiment that Sencius thought of because of an image he saw in the cave and because I am an adept and we thought that maybe, if I wore him and then aethergazed, he’d be able to share his vision of it with me and…” Their plan sounded rather flawed in retrospect.

“…And?”

“And he did, only something strange happened and now he’s stuck…err, trapped? No, stuck.” The captain’s stern gaze was making her unequivocally nervous as she tried to explain.

Vivia leaned back and crossed her arms, twirling her fingers through the ends of her braid. That was, as Chelin had come to learn from the small talk with the first mate, the captain’s “thinkin’ stance”. Vivia mused, “Never heard of its like.

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