“Nope. She did, though.”
“He took my pain away too. No sense lying around hurting if he can fix it.”
“Fix it,” Riven scoffs. “More like fill his reserves.”
Whatever Sevryn may want to say, he holds back as the carriage finally rolls to a stop.
We haven’t been traveling the full three hours we’ve been in here. We sat at the Oddian, Darlander line for an hour and a half, waiting for Fausta to arrive.
None of us got out to check or watch what Gladian and his Valtrue did in the meantime. Amick told Verlet to head here, the very outskirts of Darlander, close to the Edistoia line whenever they were ready to go.
Prior to the surprises that have happened today, I was actually looking forward to seeing what’s become of this area.
Once upon a time, twenty-odd years ago, when my parents and I traveled around Darlander, this area was pretty void of people, with the exception of a few isolated homes. I was shocked when I looked over Lambrit’s map and saw he had marked a lot of spots here.
“How far—”
Havar flinches and gasps, scaring everyone, and Yemi races to his side, hollering his name. “What?”
“The Veilatara just spoke to me,” he whispers. Then fucking squeals. “They just spoke to me, Yem.”
He picks her up and spins her around as he jumps up and down. She laughs and celebrates with him while the rest of us chuckle and simmer down from the attack positions we all got into.
Damn. It’s pretty sad our first instincts are that we’re under attack.
“They want me to unhook them, and they want to traverse the woods with us.”
“Seismet, you both needsome rest.”
“We don’t rest the way you all do. I mean, we do sleep and we will when you all do tonight, but we rejuvenate by being one with the realm. Us tagging along with all of you will be rest for us.”
A hoot floats through the carriage and I find myself mad as hell when I realize V will be here by himself because he can’t, or at least I don’t want him to be seen by Gladian and his Valtrue.
“Don’t worry about me, Thayla girl. I’ll be out there as well, just unseen.”
“Very well then. We’ll get them unhooked and start our search. Everyone, stick together and watch what’s said around ourcompany.”
We all move out the door behind Havar and come to the front of the carriage. It doesn’t take him but a moment to unhook the metal that connects from Seismet’s and Verlet’s contraptions to the carriage.
I didn’t even notice those extra pieces my first time ever watching him move the strapping from his wings to his neck. One, because Seismet’s back is taller than I am, and two, the piece is as black as his coat and blends right in.
Well, and because the Gods Gully freaked me out.
Apparently, and for obvious reason, that little extra piece both connects to the carriage so they can pull it, but it also relieves some strain on their shoulder blades.
I don’t know if I really believe that or Seismet was just trying to make me calm down ’cause I was mad as shit about it.
“You’re going to allow the Veilatara to walk freely?”
I flinch at Gladian’s loud-ass voice cutting through the otherwise quiet, peaceful forest.
No one responds to him, other than Creed glaring over his shoulder, and that dark, sexy look brings a smirk to my face.
I nearly faint when he catches it and winks at me.
Fuck, I didn’t even know he knew how to wink.
I shake that yummy distraction from my mind as he grunts, then I fall in step with him, but trip when a semi-familiar voice reaches my ear.
