\u201cWhat I wouldn\u2019t give to have Kel along right now,\u201d I muttered under my breath as I clambered through the rubble in Leinth\u2019s wake.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat help would she be?\u201d Leinth asked as she peered beneath the edge of a fallen slab of concrete.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe can dowse for things,\u201d I said with a weak smile, trying to hide the fact that my heart was breaking.\u00a0 My brother was in danger and I\u2019d made the choice to stay out here and search for something that may or may not be out here, something I didn\u2019t know how to find\u2014I didn\u2019t even know what to look for. I was already starting to question my choice.<\/p>\n
Too late now.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI see,\u201d Leinth said. She glanced back at me, then toward Thom and Seamus, who had started in on the rubble themselves. \u201cWell, I suppose that would be useful. A pity we left her behind.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMm.\u201d I might have said more, but Thom asked the question that was tugging at me.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat would this vessel even look<\/em> like? How are we going to know it when we find it?\u201d He picked his way through the rubble to my left, closer to the ravine than I was. \u201cWill it look like a bottle, a crystal, a shard of glass, what?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cA jar or a bottle,\u201d Seamus said. \u201cThose are the most likely. It\u2019s possible for it to be in any of those other things, but my instincts are screaming a jar or a bottle, the more sacred-looking, the better.\u201d<\/p>\n I startled, stumbling a step and twisting toward him. \u201cSacred-looking? What the hell?\u201d<\/p>\n He shook his head. \u201cContext clues, Marin. Perhaps I have a few more pieces to the puzzle. Leinth?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo,\u201d she said softly. \u201cI agree with you. If there\u2019s an urn anywhere about, that\u2019s where she\u2019ll have trapped him. Delicious irony in some ways.\u201d<\/p>\n I didn\u2019t ask. In the end, I was pretty sure that I just didn\u2019t want to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cWhat I wouldn\u2019t give to have Kel along right now,\u201d I muttered under my breath as I clambered through the rubble in Leinth\u2019s wake. \u201cWhat help would she be?\u201d Leinth asked as she peered beneath the edge of a fallen … Continue reading