The next morning we got up before dawn with a quick breakfast. Rajic had figured we had a pretty good headstart if my sisters came after me. Which was pretty likely, considering my "vacation" excuse wasn't that great. Around noon we got to our first major obsticle: the Serpent's Pass.
It was our only way across the Great Sea in the middle of the Earth Kingdom. If we took a ferryboat, anyone could track us through their records, and our mission had to be top secret. Rai and Katari would kill me if they found out I was heading towards Empress Reema with an (almost) complete stranger. Putting it that way, it even seemed crazy to myself. But I have to help Rajic rescue his mother.
Eventually we reached the archway warding off travelers from the cursed isthmus. I figured if we kept quiet, we would be fine. Still, the desperate carvings in the archway were pretty creepy...
Rajic and I were riding double on the "borrowed" horse until the first slip. It was a near fall on the narrow path, and only Rajic's airbending saved us from tumbling down the cliff. From then on we walked, leading the mare behind us.
At nightfall it was too dangerous to continue on without any light to see by. We made camp on a slightly wider portion of the path, positioning our sleeping bags as far away from that daunting edge as possible. After a few minutes of lying awake, I finally drifted into an uneasy sleep.
Fire Princess Kya · Tue Sep 28, 2010 @ 01:45am · 0 Comments |