Water (Buryoku Book 3) by Aaron Oster

Author:Aaron Oster [Oster, Aaron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: GFS Publishing Inc
Published: 2020-07-09T05:00:00+00:00

24

“Hey! Wake up!”

Roy was suddenly awoken as his internal alarm – Geon – rudely jolted him from a very peaceful sleep.

“What is it?” Roy asked, already pushing himself to his feet. “Are we under attack?!”

“No. You’ve just been sleeping for too long, and I was getting bored.”

Though Roy was still half-asleep, he was still awake enough to curse the Dungeon Core for all he was worth. He winced as the pains that had vanished with sleep came coursing back, though not nearly as bad as they would have had he neglected stretching the night before.

He slumped back to the ground, closing his eyes once more and allowing himself to wake more slowly. The sun was rising in the east, painting the water in a rosy hue that he would have enjoyed, had he been here in any other circumstance. Even if he were in these circumstances, if Aika was here with him, the experience would have been much more bearable.

Instead, Roy simply took the time to continue cursing at the Dungeon Core, who’d woken him from his much-needed sleep.

“Hey, if a monster had attacked, you’d be thanking me,” Geon huffed.

“But a monster wasn’t attacking,” Roy said, anger tinging his voice. “You just woke me up because you were bored!”

“Well, yeah,” Geon said. “I was bored. Also, that key thing you got last night is shining really brightly inside the box.”

Roy’s eyes immediately snapped open, and he scrabbled around for the box in question. Of course, Geon would fail to mention the important thing right away, instead, spending his efforts on annoying him and instigating pointless fights. His fingers finally brushed up against the box, and, flipping the lid open, he could see that the key was indeed shining very brightly.

He opened his Spirit Sense then, lifting the small key from the box and trying to see if there was some sort of hidden message or something like it, somewhere on its surface. What happened instead, at least in Roy’s opinion, was even better. As soon as the light of the early-morning sun washed over it, a beam of light flashed out from the key’s tip, tracing quickly over the water and vanishing into the distance.

“Woah!” Roy exclaimed, nearly dropping the key in surprise.

“Well, what do you see?” Geon asked.

“Can’t you see?”

“If I could, do you think I’d be asking?”

Roy thought for a moment before deciding that, yes, that was definitely something Geon would do if it meant messing with him.

“The key isn’t doing anything,” Roy replied. “I think I’ll just throw it away.”

Roy pulled his arm back, as though preparing to hurl the key into the water.

“Wait!” Geon yelled. “You idiot! The key is obviously pointing west! It’s giving you directions! Don’t throw it away!”

“So,” Roy said, placing the key back into the box. “You could see where the key was pointing. Would you look at that?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Geon replied. “What key?”

“You know, at the point when you’ve been caught, it’s kind of pointless to pretend ignorance,” Roy said flatly.

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