Water (The Six Elements Book 3) by Rosie Scott

Author:Rosie Scott [Scott, Rosie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-10T06:00:00+00:00

Twenty-one

86th of Dark Star, 419

The shattered kneecaps were yet another inconvenience to add to an already trying trip. Vallen had been able to put the fragile bones back together so that Cerin could mend them with his magic, the two men figuring out a way to heal me with both life magic and surgery that only I had ever been able to do. Even still, we did not make any traveling progress that day or the next. We spent a few days camping so that I could recuperate, and so the beastmen who had lost their lives to the goddess and her forest could be found and buried.

All in all, we had lost nearly thirty people. A small amount in comparison to the total of four hundred, but each life lost was a tragedy, and it only hurt worse because we had been so close to the safety of Silvi. I found myself leery of moving farther north. Jakan had been right about Vertun being the god who summoned the storm over a full moon ago, and if he had come across Nirit and told her what he had about my arrival in the wildlands, it meant he was headed north. Vertun had appeared to be Vhiri, from what I could tell after seeing him from a distance. Perhaps he was headed to Eteri. Surely Malgor was not the only god who lived amongst the unwitting so-called mortals. I wondered if any of the gods held positions of power within the hierarchies of the lesser races, and then thought about how terrifying that would be.

Despite my worries, we finally reached our final stop in the wildlands on the 86th of Dark Star, 419, just a fortnight before the new year, and we came across no more enemies, gods or otherwise.

Silvi was settled at the center of a fork in the river which ran straight through the land bridge connecting the wildlands to Eteri, and it was large enough to spread itself across nearly the entire mass of land. The trees of the rain forest were much taller than those in the swamps, though none of them here were wide or ancient enough to house cities. That didn't mean Silvi couldn't include the trees in their architecture, however. Much like the swamps of Misu had walkways and the tree of Tenesea had built on additions, Silvi combined both of these designs to create a city that was double and sometimes triple layered. Huts and ramshackle homes were built between and sometimes around the trunks of trees on the forest floor around roads marked only by the constant impressions of feet upon the same areas of dirt and plant debris. Above us in the trees, walkways led from one trunk to the other, where homes were carefully built along the sides of the plants, the weight supported by both attachments to the trees and sturdy wooden stilts which stood upon the ground below. In more populated areas of the city, a third tier was sat above even those, built in much the same way.

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