Lusam: The Dragon Mage Wars Book Two (30 page)

For another three days they travelled through the valley, every hour taking a reading, and every night taking turns to watch for trouble. On the forth day they were all starting to get very hungry, and the waterskins were almost empty again, but the sky seemed to start getting a little brighter. At first nobody mentioned it, but after another couple of hours there was no denying the fact that it was getting brighter the further they travelled.

It was about mid-day when they finally emerged from the mist into a gloriously sunny day. They came almost immediately to a narrow stream and quenched their thirst in the crystal clear running water. Lusam spotted several small fish under the surface and quickly extracted them from the
water, cooking them inside his force-field and handing them out before anyone could even ask what he was doing.
Renn and Neala took it in their stride, but Alexia just stood there slack-jawed holding her fish and looking at Lusam.

“If you don't want it, I'll eat it,” Lusam said teasing her.

“No way,” Alexia said, tucking into the freshly cooked fish.

Further ahead they could see a small wood, beyond which they could just about see a mountain range in the distance.

“We need to get to those trees for cover, just in case they're still on our tail,” Lusam said, pointing over the stream at the woods. The stream wasn't deep or that wide, so they simply waded through it to the other side then ran towards the cover of the trees. When they reached the trees Lusam looked back to see if anyone else had emerged from within the mist, but he couldn't see anyone.

They all continued in the direction they had been travelling when Renn said, “Wait. Something is wrong.”

“What do you mean?” asked Lusam confused.

“Look at the moss on the trees here. We know Helveel should be north east of here, but we're currently travelling west. Wherever your knife is pointing, it's not
Helveel,” Renn said.
“That can't be right. Maybe we got turned around a bit back there, let me recheck our direction again,” Lusam said removing the knife and casting the spell on it once again. The knife pointed directly at the mountain range in front of them, indicating a westerly direction.

“That has to be wrong, unless...” Lusam started to say, but was cut short by Renn.

“There's another Guardian book!” Renn exclaimed. “Lusam, do you remember Aysha's parting words to you lad?”

“I think so,” Lusam replied, trying to remember her exact words.

“Let me refresh your memory, she said: “
not all journeys will follow a straight path, sometimes you must stray a long way from an intended path to arrive at your true destination, your true destination is not always your intended one
.” Until now I have been trying to understand what she meant by those words, but I think you'll agree it just became perfectly clear.” Renn said falling to his knees in prayer.

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Zedd had noticed the sky brighten as he continually homed in on the boy's blatant use of magic. The last time he felt the magic he knew it was much closer, so he called out to his fellow agents to converge on his position. Soon the boy would be dead, and he would return home a hero.

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Aknowledgements

Thank you for reading
Lusam - The Dragon-Mage Wars Book Two
. I hope you enjoyed Lusam and Neala`s latest adventures, and will join them again in the next book in the series as they continue their quest.

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