The Sentry by Lyssa Morasey

Author:Lyssa Morasey [Morasey, Lyssa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LiberWriter.com
Published: 2019-07-30T22:00:00+00:00

Two Years Ago: Keira

The morning of our final Sentry trial, we were all frisked for weapons and handed daggers and folded photos on our way out of the dorms.

The dagger was nothing special, standard steel with a bronze hilt; it was the photo that was important. I broke its seal with my nail and opened it, studying the face that glowered back at me. It was a girl, blonde with emerald-green eyes. Not Delphi, thank the Goddess.

The blonde girl would be getting a similar photo of me—maybe she already had. They’d taken the pictures during lunch, so I most likely had spaghetti sauce smeared all over my face. Hopefully that would make me harder to recognize.

I glanced back behind me into the dorm, wondering if I could find my girl right then. But I couldn’t see much of anything; there were too many people crowded around the door, all too eager to get their daggers and assignments.

We were taken outside to the endless expanse of desert extending out behind the Sonoran building. The morning sun was blinding, boring right into my eyes—I should’ve grabbed the sunglasses Diana packed for me.

Two strings of observation towers, spaced about a hundred feet apart, stretched off into the distance. Coaches stood at the top of each tower, arms crossed behind their backs. We candidates were directed to stay within the space between the towers. I found myself wedged somewhere in the middle of the pack, with a little bit of elbow room in each direction.

I looked around some more for my girl, squinting into the sun. But it was hopeless—there were a thousand kids around me, and a few hundred of them were blonde girls. I wished I could’ve gotten someone with pink hair or a mohawk or something.

“Keira.” I spun around to find Delphi grinning sheepishly at me. My stomach flipped. Delphi….

“Hey,” I breathed. “You ready for this?”

Instead of answering, Delphi snuck a hand behind my neck and pulled me closer, the cool metal of his dagger pressing into my nape. I made a startled noise deep in my throat. Delphi’s other hand cupped my chin, angling it up until I was staring point-blank into his deep dark eyes. And then he leaned into me and planted a kiss on my lips.

Instinctively my mouth opened to make room for his, and I felt Delphi’s hot breath traveling down my trachea. It took me a second to come to my senses: What am I doing? I quickly shoved him away, stepping back and wiping the taste of him from my mouth. “What the hell was that?”

Delphi’s eyes were twinkling, and his smile was wider and whiter than ever. “I wanted to kiss a girl before I die,” he said. “You seemed like a good choice.”

My head reeled as he disappeared back into the crowd. The desert spun and flipped and somersaulted around me. A good choice? What did that mean? Did it mean anything? A good choice….

Focus, you idiot, I snapped at myself. This is important.

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