The World’s End by Rin Chupeco EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Rin Chupeco
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- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Contemporary Fantasy
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IN WHICH KEN STILL CAN’T SWIM
Kensington Inoue, latest wielder of the Nameless Sword, heir to the famed
Yawarakai-Te and Juuchi Yosamu swords, and current public face and hero
of the kingdom of Avalon, was drowning in six feet of water.
Nya was trying her best, though to little avail. Her boyfriend had his
arms wrapped tightly around her neck, clinging as she fought to keep them
both afloat. Nya was technically a mermaid and therefore not in any danger,
but Ken seemed to have sprouted eight arms all at once in his bid not to
sink underwater, and his panic was dragging her down along with him.
“It would be a lot more comfortable,” Nya was saying with all the
patience of a saint, “if you would just relax and let yourself float.”
“I don’t float,” came the warbled, strangled answer. Ken also had his
feet locked around her waist at the junction where her flesh ended and her
scales began. Nya’s large purple-blue mermaid tail stirred just beneath the
surface, the only thing keeping them buoyant. “I never float. That’s the
problem. And will you stop laughing at me, you ungrateful melt? You’re the
whole bloody reason I’m afraid of water!”
That last bit was directed at Ken’s kelpie, with the unfortunate name of
Horse. The creature was swimming circles around them, pausing at
intervals to neigh cheerfully at Ken’s plight.
“Don’t think about Horse,” Nya said encouragingly. “Think about
floating.”
Tala and the other members of the Order of the Bandersnatch were
congregated around the water’s edge. They were watching Nya’s attempt at
teaching swimming lessons, occasionally shouting their encouragement at
Ken, pretending that the hundred or so guards unobtrusively stationed
around the area weren’t there for their protection. Whatever her threats the
last time they’d seen her, the Snow Queen had been keeping a low profile
for the past three months. Tala had enjoyed the respite, though the niggling
feeling lingered at the back of her head, knowing the woman was only
biding her time before attacking again.
They wouldn’t be able to do this much longer. The winter months were
approaching, and Alex said winter always came earlier in Avalon than it did
in most other kingdoms, though the trade-off was an even earlier spring. In
a couple of weeks, it would be too cold for Nya to teach Ken how to swim,
far too chilly for them to stay by the lake like they were doing now.
A lot had happened in the last three months. After CEO Ruggedo
Nome’s death, OzCorp had fought to rebrand itself, distancing the company
from the dubious projects of its late founder and committing itself to
various philanthropic activities in a bid to rework its image. Activists
remained suspicious, noting that very few executives had been fired or
replaced. “Sounds like par for the course to me when it comes to dealing
with corporations,” Alex had told Tala wearily, and he had since responded
by reinforcing stricter conditions on the company regarding the spelltech
they could manufacture and sell on Avalon soil
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