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CHAPTER ELEVEN
KASSIAN
None of us made a fucking sound as we backtracked far enough to hopefully avoid the gobbelin.
We didn’t want to risk the idea that there could be more of them. We definitely weren’t armed well enough, except for the wolf’s built-in weapons of teeth and claws.
“What the fuck,” Blaise hissed when we’d found a decent shelter and cleared it of anything else that might be deadly. “Do you think they’re part of the Trial?”
I grimaced. “Fuck me, I hope not. That would mean Merden is absolutely in on the whole thing.”
Luca shook his head. “I’m no mist expert, but I can’t see that being allowed. And it’s not in our book,” he pointed out.
“Okay, that’s a damn good point,” Blaise said, nodding. “Everything else we’ve seen has been in there. So now what? I wonder if they’re in the other sections, too.”
“It could have escaped from the section that has theBook of Saori Sang,” I suggested, and I could tell by their expressions that neither of them liked that idea.
But the sections had to cross over a little bit - we had a scarce handful common plants in ours, after all. Probably the other sections had at least a few animals for food. Who knew what might be in the sections for prophecy and history, or if we were even right about all those assumptions?
“Regardless of how they’re here, we need to be on high alert. They might not be as powerful as a lilac oso, but they’re the only clever creature we’ve come across so far. If there are more, they can band up and track us,” Luca warned.
We swapped rumors for a while, but unfortunately, none of us really knew the true traits of gobbelins or the best way to kill them, because all of Saori Sang had assumed they were extinct generations ago.
“Even more reason to figure out your mindspeak and tell Kana,” Luca huffed at me when we eventually circled back around to repeating the same sketchy intel.
“Maybe I should just practice with you,” I snapped, and Blaise groaned.
“Not a bad idea, guys. At least see if you can get the scent of the gobbelin from him. If not, I will. I want to know what to be watching for - I amnotin the mood to test death a second time.”
I glared at Luca, hating even more that I’d never mastered the mindspeak skill. It just took a lot of time and patience, two things I’d never seemed to have much of growing up. Oh, and a private tutor willing to share blood and practice time, like all of the royals would have had.
“Here,” Blaise said finally, nicking her finger and offering it to me.
Forcing away a sigh, I swiped her blood up with my thumb and brought it to my lips, giving her a few drops of mine. She let the blood settle in our bodies, then began to describe the steps needed to open my mind and hear her thoughts through my ice magic. They were the same as I remembered and sounded easy enough, but for whatever reason, I just couldn’t make it happen.
“Fucking hopeless,” I growled several minutes later, and she laughed, shaking her head.
