For a few magical moments Bryn felt as if her and Logar had landed in paradise.After walking a mile in land,the air turned cool,slight breezes stirred.There was a sweet scent of flowers and the gentle hum of insects that lulled her sences.Bryn could almost forget that she was on an unknown island .Glancing around her eyes fell on harsh brown soil,a beautiful crystal stream that reflected the sun turning parts of it a golden hue.Billowed lacey trees who's branches touched the ground as if paying homage to the harsh soil .It was tempimg to savor the beauty that surrounded her.Bryn glanced around only to find Logar a most striking youth leaning into a tree,his cap cradled under his arm just smiling brightly.It was clear that he too was enjoying this breif reprieve from the confines of the Nomad.Remembrance of the nomad crew filtered through her mind.she could feel a slight smile play on her face.But for those brief minutes she wanted all this to be hers,to pretend for a short time that she wasn't on an unknown island,but that this could have been her home.Captured in her daydreams she felt an involuntarily twitch as if she suffered anelectrical shock.The air itself turned and was now charged with impending doom.The wind begin to stir,intensififying the feeling of unexpected danger.looking towards the closet tree she saw huge dark shapes out of the corner of her eye,then an ungodly scream.
"Logar!" she cried out starting to turn but this time Bryn heard herself cry out as pain ricochet through out her whole body.her mind seem to be exploding edging into darkness vaguely aware of the force applied to her back that impaled her head into a large tree branch.She could feel her body tremble but her body wouldn't work,her legs,arms nothing worked as darkness consumed her but not totally as she slowly collapsed to the ground.Bryn felt removed as if she was a black box within her own mind trapped.Her body refusing to obey,she couldn't lift her eyelids,or move a finger.Panic immense fear permeated every bleakness of her soul locked in darkness within her own mind but fully conscious.aware of her surrounding.Then the sounds came unhuman screams,the tearing of fabric,the ground shaken with thuds,vibrating underneath her more screams that turned her blood cold with fear,panic as she fought to gain control over her body.In her mind she screamed out for Demott,then paniced,begged for the screams to end.She could feel the flush of air,the loud thud of someone falling so close to her,whimpers of what use to be human.Then something wet and damp grabbing onto her wrist,Logar her mind flashed.She could feel the evil,smell its rot ,a heavy weight on her back threatening to crush the life right out of her and then the feeling of something wet dripping down onto her hair and neck.The tearing away of Togar's hand from her wrist,her body being dragged until the grip released.Then the immanence pain of something sharp,wet pulling her back shaking her right foot violently back and forth sounds of snarls then she felt the evil drop her back down on to the soil,soft heavy padded paws slowly leaving her following the renewed screams.Then the screams stopped as suddenly as they started leaving her to strain as she curled up into the small black box in her mind,knowing that her time to die was coming and she couldn't lift a finger or use her magic to protect herself all she could prey for was a quick death and that it would come fast for her.With the soft sounds of padded paws and low throathy snarls approaching slowly towards her--predators and she their renewed prey.
PART ONE