The Seas of Time by Peach D. Wallace

Author:Peach, D. Wallace
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: D. Wallace Peach
Published: 2023-11-14T00:00:00+00:00

Tali’s last three matches proved useless. Gusts whipped the rain sideways, screeching a banshee’s deadly omen to a chorus of thunder. Breakers crashed against the rocks, sending their salty spray up the cliffs. She stepped back and smashed the lantern on the kerosene-doused coals. The fire basket bloomed with flames.

Splinters of lightning illuminated the clouds like paper lanterns. The ship thrashed on the waves, nearer than moments before. Zam paced at the bluffs’ edge, webbed wings battling the wind. “Sauv boag. Sauv boag.”

“The fire will warn the crew.” Tali joined him at the precipice, her sweatshirt soaked and toes frozen. “I don’t know what else to do.”

“Sauv Eggh. Sauv Zaaahm.”

“Save you?” She glanced down at the gargoyle. “But….”

Zam pointed a talon at the sails. “Eggh. Zaaahm.”

She didn’t understand. Every muscle in her body groaned, and her head ached. Fatigue and stress magnified the storm’s chill, and she trembled as if the earth beneath her was shaking loose for a cataclysmic slide into the sea. The magic coiling in the clouds terrified her. How could any of it be real?

And what if Zam told the truth? What if, somehow, Greg fought for his life on the ship? What did Zam mean about saving him too?

She wanted to pack her things and flee. But she stood in a spring meadow somewhere in the past, a black woman without family, without a thing to her name. She had no power, no control. Her country didn’t consider her a person at all. And what would happen to Zam? She was neck-deep in shit without a shovel.

Zam’s depthless gaze drilled holes through the sodden darkness. He knew something but hadn’t the words to explain. Would the blaze in the fire basket warn the captain away from the rocks? Was this the work of a voodoo god or just a freak storm? Was the vessel’s destruction inevitable?

She squeezed her eyes shut. “How? How do we save them?”

Rain dripped from the gargoyle’s gray skin, and he flicked droplets from his ears, lips struggling to form a word.

Tali’s teeth chattered, and she drew in a breath. “The book.”

“Sss.”

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