The Spiral of Life by Francesca McMahon

Author:Francesca McMahon
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781951905415
Publisher: Bandele Books

As the trio walked through the forest, Eilean found herself drinking from her flask regularly. The humidity was as strong as ever and, once again, Eilean was thanking Brigid for the short sleeves. As they walked through the bush, the heat seemed to grow more intense. With the trees and wide leaves bearing over them, Eilean had hoped that it’d stave off the heat of the sun, but it just seemed to exacerbate it. To distract herself, she scanned the plant life around her, keeping an eye out for anything that seemed dangerous or out of the ordinary.

Just like before, she noticed the fading colors on the plant life. Spots of gray covered green leaves, tree trunks, and even patches of grass. Eilean knew plant life could end up with speckling colors, but gray wasn’t natural. It was as if something was draining the color out of the forest.

“Does the forest usually look like this?” Eilean asked.

“Nothing is as it was before,” Bhradain replied.

Eilean made a note to herself to be on the eye out for more things that appeared out of the ordinary. Or at least, as out of the ordinary in a world of magic, that is.

“Have you noticed this, Freya?” She glanced up and found Freya slumped against Bhradain’s neck, snoozing.

Her face was buried in his seaweed-like mane which, as gross as Eilean found it, Freya somehow made look sweet. Her lips were parted slightly as she breathed softly—though occasionally the grunt of a snore slipped out. Eilean found herself biting back a laugh at the noise. Eventually she looked away from Freya’s sleeping form, worrying she was coming across as creepy. Though she glanced back at her every so often, just to check that she wasn’t slipping.

Freya may have told her to swap places at the half-way point, but Eilean knew she had no intention of keeping her side of the deal.

“Don’t tell me when we reach the half-way point,” Eilean said quietly to the kelpie.

“I had no intention of doing so.”

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