The Wizard's Daughter: An Epic Fantasy Adventure (The Crystal Keep) by K.N. Lee

Author:K.N. Lee [Lee, K.N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Captive Quill Press
Published: 2019-03-30T22:00:00+00:00

19

A soft murmur woke Elle.

Magda.

Her pretty face lingered in her mind. She reached for her, beseeching her for the truth. But, someone spoke to her, and led her back from the darkness, to the light.

She opened her eyes and stared into the eyes of a little girl. Her arms were pinned to her sides and her legs were bound by thick, rough, ropes.

In a panic, she tried to sit up.

Where was Etian and Alexi?

“Try to relax,” the girl said, her gap-toothed grin widening.

“Let me go. Please,” she pleaded to the little girl.

They were in a tent made out of hides and painted with clay and dull green paint. As she looked to the entrance of the tent, all she saw was white and a bright light.

“Where am I?”

The little girl touched her face with cold hands and sat back on her heels. With violet hair and green eyes that matched the paint on the inside of the tents walls.

Her skin was brown, and covered with blue markings. Scales ran up and down her arms, neck, and the side of her face.

It can’t be.

She was a serpent.

Her eyes watered, as fear crept up her throat.

She gasped as a winged creature flew across the entrance, and out of sight.

No, it really can’t be, she told herself as she realized that a serpent had just flown by.

Winged creatures who could shift into humans, breathe fire, and hypnotize its prey.

She had to get out of there.

"Please, sweet girl. Help me get free from these binds."

The girl shook her head. She traced a line across her neck indicating death.

Speechless, she watched the girl, her hopes fading. Her voice caught in her throat as in flew two serpents. Their wings were immediately pulled back once they were inside, and in a bright pop of light, they both shifted into women. Tall, lithe, with dark brown skin and bright, oval-shaped eyes.

While one had green hair, the other had short violet hair like the little girl’s.

They wore cloaks, gray and covered with the history of the Serpents.

Serpent Sisters, the shamans of the serpent race.

She tensed as their eyes fell on her, examining every inch of her face and body.

A small smile came to the one with the green hair. “Welcome to Shiran,” she said, and Elle’s eyes widened.

She was in the Serpent Kingdom in the clouds.

By the clouds wavering around them, she knew it to be true. The talons that had ripped her from the horse and carried her off, left a pain in her shoulders that was nothing compared to the breaking of her heart.

How would Prince Etian and Prince Alexi find her?

“They took much more from you than your freedom,” the older woman said. “The humans know not who or what you truly are.”

To her surprise, she lowered her eyes as knelt beside her cot.

Elle paled.

They bowed to her.

“Forgive me, Enchanted Elle,” she said. “We have not come to harm you. I am Gulathi. I am not the one who tied you up, but the one who convinced the tribe's folk not to send you back to the humans.

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