Exhaustion weighed down every muscle in my body. Even though this was true, I felt empty and hopeless. The memory of Deakin’s words and his tumultuous emotions resulted in fresh, silent tears flowing down my cheeks.
Amber nickered softly underneath me, echoing my sadness. I wrapped my arms around her sweaty neck and cried into her. Her desolate thoughts were so strong and potent, my heart was aching, and my mind was begging for it to end.
The longer we travelled, the more I retreated further into myself, as our ragtag group of escapees swiftly moved along the worn path back to Callad.
Alana, who had suffered the least physical injuries, set up the camps every time we stopped, which was not very often. When we did stop it was never for long. The fear of pursuit was too strong. Without even needing to acknowledge it, we all knew that Tynan would come after us. I was too valuable, and the other two Master Magicians far too powerful for him to not seek retributio
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Mistress Jaida’s voice entered my mind. The bubbly personality that I remembered was gone, and had been replaced with one of authority. Come to my room now please, Kida. And if I don’t? I don’t want to say that you will be forced… but I’m not asking you. As she retreated from my mind, I gave a grumbled sigh. We had been back for a total of a week and in that time many people had come knocking on my door and demanding, begging, and even pleading, to speak to me. Jax, Tori, Jaida, even Blake, but I had ignored all of them. All I wanted, was to be alone. That was in the first two days and after that they had stopped coming, as if they had given up. It had taken Midnight’s pleading images of an empty food bowl to rouse me from my despaired, miserable sulking, to leave my room. That had opened the door for people thinking I was ready to be a part of civilisation, and now Jaida had summoned me. By her tone, I knew it would be noth
“What were you even thinking?”His tone was like dunking my head into snow. It stabbed at my heart and stung my face as if he had slapped me.“Wait, don’t answer that. Knowing you, you probably weren’t thinking at all. You never think through the consequences of your actions.”“Hmmm,” was all I could manage to get out, attempting to get my voice low and remorseful. Part of me wanted to bite back, to argue my point, but the other, rather larger part, wanted to shift away from his anger. And honestly, I didn’t care what he said. All that mattered was that Amber was okay. She was the only thing I had left of… I stopped short, closing off the thought before it could finish, my heart squeezing in agony in my chest.Blake ran a hand through his dishevelled hair. At least that hadn’t changed. I still drove him insane. He glared at me with his burning eyes.His time within Tynan’s cel
Alana’s eyes narrowed at me from the small opening in her door, the gloomy grey colour swirling around menacingly.“Do you realise what you are asking?” she asked for the fifth time, sounding still so shocked. “We would become linked.” A smirk touched her lips. “And you would have to follow my instructions.”I folded my arms across my chest. “I know that, but… it’s better than the other option.”She eyed me knowingly, a stab of sadness hitting me square in the chest. “You will have to face it sooner or later.”“I think I prefer later.”She snorted and opened the door wider to let me in.“Come in.”Her living room was small and cosy, something I never would have expected from her. It felt almost homely.Three puffy, green armchairs were positioned in a half-circle around a wooden table and each faced the empty fireplace, but al
“Stupid. Evil. Horrible. Man.” Each word that came through my gritted teeth was punctuated as I kicked and punched the heavy bag that hung in the training room. Sweat showered my skin, and my face was flushed with effort. I had been training for over an hour now, hoping to release some of the pent-up frustration. But it seemed that my anger was a bottomless pit of energy that I continued to pull from. It wasn’t helping at all. After spending every waking moment of the last two days with the mystery girl, I was still no closer to solving her unknown ailment, or the irritating feeling that kept niggling at me, that somehow I knew her. All I had gotten was that she was afraid, deathly afraid, and that she wasn’t dead. Yet. “Hope. You. Die. You. Son. Of. A. Bi - ” “Hey now, watch the language,” a smooth, cocky voice interrupted. I stop and turned, pulling magic to my hands, ready to attack. My breath was coming in short gasps, as I c
She looked just how I remembered - Perfect and simply beautiful. Of course she did. My eyes mentally eye rolled at how frustrating it was to look upon her perfection.Isla gave me a large smile when she looked up from her desk, a pair of slim glasses atop her nose.“Kida?” She tried to hide the shock from her expression, but I felt it. She either didn’t expect me, or didn’t expect me to come to her looking like I did. I was more than sure if was the latter, certain I probably looked a mess.“Isla.”“How good to see you.” She removed her glasses and indicated the chair in front of her desk.I nodded at Wells, who had escorted me to see her, before taking a seat in the chair. It was hard backed and highly uncomfortable, probably intentionally done to keep the other person on edge the entire time. It was very clever, really.It hadn’t taken me long to find them. After all, I knew if I found
As soon as we got in sight of the school, I dropped Blake’s hand, my mood sour. I couldn’t believe he had been following me. Again! Now that I had released my anger at Isla, the thought had come to the front of my mind again.“Did you really have to follow me?” I said, trying to contain the emotions in my voice. “I am not a child.”Blake gave me a sharp look. “Obviously I did. You keep trying to get yourself killed.”“I can take care of myself.”Blake grabbed my wrist, turning me to face him. Fire trailed along my skin at his touch. My arm jerked back away from him.“Apparently you can’t,” he growled. His eyes had darkened into a look I knew well. He was pissed off at me. “What the hell are you thinking going to Isla for? You can’t trust anything she says.”I sucked in a breath, trying to remain calm. It wasn’t working. He was really getting
The woman sitting in front of me stared with a cold, calculating gaze. Others had their hands over their mouths, shaking their heads in disbelief. Was it so hard to believe? “Are you certain?” the woman said, her voice sharp and clear. The power within her was almost overwhelming, and even her stare sent small shivers along my arms, leaving goosebumps to form behind it. I leant back in the chair, tugging nervously at my sleeve. I had been sitting in this chair for almost an hour now, and it was unsettling. Not to mention they had waited a whole day before responding to my request to meet. The girl was slowly dying and they had dragged me up here for what? Just to talk around in circles about the same thing, and never actually get anywhere with the conversation. They were wasting my time. Most of the time had been spent trying to find the words to describe what exactly Jaida and I thought was going on. Many on the Council had looked on in horror as I recounted
After I checked in on the girl, only to find out nothing had changed, I sought out Pollis in the dining hall, getting his fill of food. Many of the girls around him were staring openly, their eyes wide and adoring, not that he really seemed to notice. It earned me a few scornful glares when I sat down next to him and wrapped an arm over his huge shoulders. “Hey all-mighty one,” he joked with a giant grin. I glanced down at the mountain of food on his plate, taking one of his pieces of bread and shoving it in my mouth. “Ready for some training? “You know me,” I mumbled, crumbs falling from my mouth. Pollis laughed. “Ready for anything.” “Give me a minute.” I watched with a slightly sickened feeling as he shovelled some more food in his mouth, before standing. He towered over me, making me feel utterly tiny in his presence and worry entered my stomach. I hoped he wasn’t going to accidentally kill me. “Lets go.” We walked together to the training hall, but I stopped before enterin