Free Read: Between Worlds (from Project Prometheus)
copyright 2008 by Esther Mitchell
BETWEEN WORLDS
She was so cold. The wind here on the shore was bitter, chilled by the storm that raged around her. Csilla huddled in the cavern, watching as sthe boats were made ready.
“Are you ready, Gatekeeper?”
She turned at the sound of a masculine voice, to find Sargon beside her, tall and strong in his armor, the glow of his charge shining around him even from where it rested, secure in the scabbard at his side. She shuddered to think that, of them all, only she was a real danger. Only her charge could bring them all back to this place, and only her charge could be forced from her grasp by any manner besides death.
“Go, Warrior,” she whispered, already aware of what she must do. And yet, she could not tell these men, her soul-brothers, what she planned. They would surely halt her plan, if they knew how she meant to protect them all. “I am weary, and will bide here a while.”
He frowned. “It is not safe, Csilla. Already, Arachaena swarm the mountain above us. They must not find us here.”
She looked out toward the storm-tossed waves whose peace she once found solace in. Sadness gripped her that she would leave this behind, and she hugged her cloak tighter about her shoulders. There was no help for it. This was as it must be.
”I shall follow directly. Have Mykalos tie me a boat in yon rocks.”
Sargon sighed, but relented. Truly, he was too tender to a woman’s comfort; she feared that would bring him to ill ends. “Do not linger too long, Csilla.”
She smiled up at him, careful that he did not read her sorrow. “I will be gone before they arrive.”
With a nod, his eyes wary, Sargon left her and headed for the boats beyond. Csilla sighed, and shivered slightly as she rested her back against the cool rocks. She felt the weight of the knife concealed beneath her cloak. She would keep her promise. Only, it would not be as Sargon believed.
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