The Wolf and the Witch by Charissa Weaks EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Charissa Weaks
- Language: English
- Genre: Dark Fantasy Horror
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Mount Ulra
The Grove of the Gods
The grove is wailing.
Mournful cries drift through the scorched remains of the
cemetery, anguished howls baying from deep within the earth.
Beneath my feet, the charred ground is covered with snow, a result of Neri’s
magick suffocating the fires the same way he did in Aki-Ra Quarter. Above,
the ancient, heavy boughs are no more. Now there’s nothing but a dense,
gray cloud blotting out the night sky.
The only light is from Alexus’s starlights. They illuminate the wood so
we can see, our little clan desperately searching for my sister as ash falls
heavy as Neri’s snow.
Shivering against the cold air, I move adjacent to Alexus as he calls
Raina’s name. His deep voice has gone so rough and ragged that it’s almost
unrecognizable amid the lament of the grieving grove. He coughs from the
effort, the lingering smoke almost too much for any of us to endure.
Save for Neri. Unaffected by our surroundings, the white wolf stalks
close behind, returned to his corporeal form. He hasn’t let me out of his
sight, but my king follows too, freed from his chains by the wolf himself.
“I’ve been over this grove thrice,” Neri says to Alexus. An irritated
edge roughens his smooth, accented voice. “She isn’t here.”
Earlier, he looked Alexus in the eyes and said, “It isn’t what you want to
hear, Un Drallag, but your woman either died in her own fire, left this wood
using her abyss, or she’s in Quezira with the prince and Thamaos.”
Surprisingly, his words had not been laced with bitterness, not meant to
cut or wound. They sounded sincere, spoken to prevent us from doing what
we’re doing now: wandering through the gods’ blistered graves, grief
threatening, hoping against all hope to see my sister’s lovely face around
the next bend. We all felt the ripple of strange power during the fire. A
breath-stealing force whooshed through the grove like a mighty storm, but
almost as soon as we felt it, it was gone.
A pang punches my chest as more tears flood my stinging eyes. Vision
blurry, my foot catches on a root, and I stumble on my still-aching ankle.
Neri is at my side in an instant. He folds one massive claw-tipped hand
around my bare arm, the other around my waist, keeping me from falling.
“Careful, now.”
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