Evermine: Daughters of Askara, book 2
“My mouth ached from clenching my jaw so my teeth would stop rattling. When I began imagining words interspersed in the droning noise, I diagnosed myself with sun sickness.
It sounded better than driven to insanity in a single morning by Aldrich the Annoying.
“We’re near.”
Several seconds passed until the ringing in my ears abated. “What did you say?”
“We’re near.” No further elaboration. He worked at folding back his robe’s sleeve.
“How do you do that?” I asked. “Know when we’re nearing a city?...”
“Magic is in the blood. It calls to me.” Metal glinted in his hand, a dagger of some kind.
Before my muscles tensed or the threat fully registered, he had turned the blade on himself, slicing open his arm. Skin flayed, and my stomach juddered. Thank God it was empty.
“Stop here.”
I did as he asked, and he spider-crawled onto the sand. He squeezed his cut as easily as I might juice an orange. Blood ran, and he used it to scrawl a clumping pattern in a circle around him.MoreLess
It sounded better than driven to insanity in a single morning by Aldrich the Annoying.
“We’re near.”
Several seconds passed until the ringing in my ears abated. “What did you say?”
“We’re near.” No further elaboration. He worked at folding back his robe’s sleeve.
“How do you do that?” I asked. “Know when we’re nearing a city?...”
“Magic is in the blood. It calls to me.” Metal glinted in his hand, a dagger of some kind.
Before my muscles tensed or the threat fully registered, he had turned the blade on himself, slicing open his arm. Skin flayed, and my stomach juddered. Thank God it was empty.
“Stop here.”
I did as he asked, and he spider-crawled onto the sand. He squeezed his cut as easily as I might juice an orange. Blood ran, and he used it to scrawl a clumping pattern in a circle around him.MoreLess
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