Ember and Eclipse by T. K. Tucker EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: T. K. Tucker
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She was face to face with a crocodile.
The only things visible above the murky water were the top of his broad
head and the middle of his ridged back. He stared unblinkingly at her, as
still as a stone statue. One usually didn’t even know the creatures were there
until they struck. Despite their astonishing size, they moved like phantoms
through the water, undetected, until it was too late.
Rel lifted her face completely out of the water to take a breath, her chin
bumping against the crocodile’s snout as she did.
“I’ll never get used to you sneaking up on me. All this room, and you
have to be right here?”
She affectionately pressed two fingers between his nostrils. When she
hadn’t seen him on the shores, she knew there was a chance of him finding
her when she was in the water. Yet she was always surprised by his sudden
appearance.
His gaze held unfathomable depths, an entire universe. She had looked
plenty of monsters in the eye before, but Aloysius wasn’t one of them. Even
though rows of thick, sharp teeth were set into his pointed mouth just
beneath the surface, she trusted the creature in some way that defied all
reason. But she also respected the very real threat that he was. This
particular swamp belonged to him. It was only with his permission that she
was allowed to enter it unharmed. She had a sense he respected bravery, and
if she were any less so, he wouldn’t welcome her in his territory.
Finally, his opaque eyelids covered his ancient, marbled eyes as he
effortlessly sank beneath the water again. His gray and brown-speckled skin
allowed him to almost immediately disappear. Rel only felt a ripple of
movement as he swam past her.
Letting out a long exhale, she swam the way she’d come with the reason
she got in the water bobbing behind her—grood reeds. They had become a
staple of her diet since she’d been in the wetlands. Both the stalks and
meaty center were edible. They could be added to soups and salads or
blackened to eat alone. Rel hadn’t intended to do any swimming, but when
she spied the tops of them breaking the surface, she couldn’t help herself.
She pulled herself out of the much deeper and darker waters when she
reached the shelf. Algae caught in rivulets of water rushed down her warm
copper skin as she rose like a wild creature from its depths. The speckles of
silt and debris that intermingled with her freckles and caught in strands of
her rust-colored hair made her appear like she was of the swamp herself.
The bank was a muddy mess, but the saturated ground didn’t bother her.
She actually liked the way it felt as her feet sank into it and the mud pressed
between her toes.
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