Uncharted Fear: World of Heavenfall (The Dragon's Fear Book 1) by McCue Marie & Rookhouse Riley

Author:McCue, Marie & Rookhouse, Riley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Story Garden Publishing LLC
Published: 2023-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Ten

Panabelle

The sleep was usually dreamless, but when the nightmares came, they came in force.

Somewhere beyond the darkness of her slumber, something was happening. To her elven ears, it was like the roar of a distant rockfall, or perhaps a stampede of wild pacorn, their hooves thundering against the earth in a primal drumbeat that shook the ground below her.

Almost like she was caught in an earthquake.

Something about that didn’t make sense, but she didn’t know what, or why. Her sleep still had its hooks in her, tugging her relentlessly back toward that familiar oblivion. She wanted to return to it, needed to, yearning for the strength and reprieve it promised her. It wasn’t time for the awakening yet.

Disregarding that confusion, she retreated back into herself, away from the creeping edges of consciousness.

But the roar wasn’t receding. It was growing louder: first a din, now a cacophony, an assault on her ears that drove relentlessly against the wall of blessed sleep. And all the while, the world was moving beneath her.

Not a rockfall.

Her thoughts were only half formed, but they were circling something, something about the incongruity of what she was now experiencing. She wasn’t sure what it was, but it poked at the depths of her mind, demanding her attention even as she slept.

Not a stampede. Not an earthquake.

In the darkness, she became aware of a new sensation: flecks of something speckling her skin. A thousand pleasantly ice-cold, feather-light touches.

Water.

Water?

Alarm exploded within her, but it was still dampened, trapped under a pall of darkness, and she couldn’t make herself move. She fought the fatigue, crushing as it was in its weight, willing her eyes to open.

The awakening was always difficult, but this time, it felt almost impossible. Her limbs were lethargic, her heart like a lump of lead in the hollow of her chest as it fought to get the blood moving faster through her dormant body. She sucked in a breath, groping for that rush of renewed energy, but it never came. The burn of exhaustion was all there was, as if her sleep had wrung the life out of her body. From somewhere above her, as if from another world, someone was shouting—not Tahwyr, not her bodyguards. Voices she didn’t recognize.

This isn’t right. That was the first coherent thought to shine uninhibited through the fog. The second was, The baby—

But then a deafening crack sliced through the air, and when the water hit her this time, it was far from a caress; it was a deluge, striking her with enough force to drive the air from her lungs. Then it was closing over her head, filling her nose and burning her sinuses as the world rolled and jerked around her. The breath left her mouth in a thin stream, and she was vaguely aware of the tang of salt on her lips. But still she couldn’t open her eyes.

She was drowning.

Move, she told herself, half a command and half a prayer. Something held her in place, an immense force that was more than just the weight of the water on her chest.

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