The Servant of Souls by Richard Fierce

Author:Richard Fierce
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dragonfire Press

7

“What are you talking about?”

Maren stopped walking, but she didn’t look at me.

“What Katori said … about the ghosts. I know what they are.”

“What are they?” I asked.

“Souls of the dead.”

I stood there quietly, not sure what to say at first. “I don’t understand. Souls of what dead? The dragons?”

“No, not just the dragons. All souls.”

“How do you know?”

Maren turned to look at me. “I know it sounds insane, but we need to go where the ferryman was killed. I have to know for sure.”

The ferryman. Demris’s first victim from when he’d been brought back from the island. What did the ferryman have anything to do with … and then it hit me, and I understood Maren’s logic.

“You think the ghosts are lost souls?”

“Yes.”

“It seems plausible,” I said. “But what do the souls have to do with what happened here at the school?”

“I’m not sure,” Maren admitted. “Maybe nothing at all, but it’s still something we need to look into. I hadn’t considered it before, but if the ferryman is dead, how do the souls get to the island?”

“They walk on water?”

“No,” Maren scoffed. “They can’t touch water, which is why the ferryman took them on his boat.”

I must have forgotten that detail. “All right. So we go and see if you are correct. And if you are? What then?”

“I haven’t thought that far ahead yet.”

I looked at Sion and Demris. They seemed to be doing well, but there was no telling how long that would last. Katori said that magic was gone. I feared how that would affect our dragons, considering their connection to it.

What do you think? I asked Sion. Can you make it there?

Yes.

And what about Demris?

There was a pause.

He says he can handle it.

“I’m on board,” I said. “There’s just one problem.”

“What’s that?”

“Last time we had a guide. Do you remember where this place is?”

I do, Sion said.

“Never mind. Sion knows the way. But we’ll have to go on foot.”

“Why? It’ll be faster if we fly.”

“We didn’t fly last time. We walked there.”

Maren frowned. “Why didn’t we fly? I don’t remember anything stopping us before.”

Now that she mentioned it, I couldn’t remember the reason either. There was a faint memory floating in the back of my mind, but when I tried to focus on it, the memory eluded me.

“I can’t remember, either,” I said.

“Then we fly.” Maren smiled.

It would be faster. I shrugged, and we returned to Sion and Demris. Maren climbed into Demris’s saddle and waited, both of them watching me. I rubbed Sion’s snout and massaged along her neck, subconsciously trying to stall. I wasn’t sure why, but I had a feeling that things were going to take a turn for the worse.

“We need to fly low,” I said.

I climbed up Sion’s shoulder and settled myself, then nodded at Maren. Demris launched into the sky, and Sion quickly followed after him, taking the lead. We kept low and headed south toward the Sea of Colisle, or The Wasted Deep as the locals called it.

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