Bloodbreeders: Seeking Others by Robin Renee Ray Read Free Book Online Page A

She did let me help with the chain,” Sydney raised his hand, bringing a breath of relief from both Garvin and myself.
    That was it. We had a plan for our winged friend. She now had a purpose among us. That is if I was right and we could teach her. Right now our first priority was catching up with the running scared master of my mirror image, Tammy. We may not look a thing alike, but our thoughts were the same. If I didn’t have the right word to finish my statement she did and many times I would do the same and complete her sentence. Night after night we became closer, yet she had never told me of her creation into the world of darkness. Her story must be much more frightening than I could possibly contemplate, or her heart was broken so badly she couldn’t bring herself to talk about it.
     

Chapter Five
     
    It was the ending of our last night before we reached the port of Tabor’s connections and everyone was getting settled in except for Jacob, Shyanna, and me. I was working with her on her speech and Jacob was laying out an outfit that I hadn’t seen until now. It was a black and white silk pant suit with the same wide legs as the ones he had on the first time we had an encounter. The top was trimmed in a white tightly woven braid. The collar was a flat style that buttoned up high on his neck, with an embroidered design that made the shape of a serpent on both sides of the upper chest.
    “Isn’t that the same thing that’s on the medallion?”
    “You have a good eye for detail. It is the very exact, made by my,” he paused and looked back at me puzzled. “She was not my mother, but the old one’s wife. I haven’t a word to call her now.”
    “Was she good to you?”
    “She was very good and always good to Jessica.”
    “Then call her what you have always, Jacob.”
    “Yes, I see what you mean. My elder mother made this for me when I became head of the old one’s affairs.”
    “Is that why they knew you so well on those islands?”
    “It is. They only need see his medallion to see that I have taken control fully and to prove that he no longer exists.”
    “Why the clothes?” I asked reaching out to touch the silky cloth.
    “For those who will not take the time to ask for proof of course. I have found the place on the ship’s map where Tabor’s map shows a small river entrance, but it does not show on ours.  I think his has been around much longer than the ones that we have on board.”
    “Isn’t this ship pretty old?”
    “And our maps even older, but still it is not there,” he said going to the chair that I think he now slept in.
    “We’ll soon find out.”

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    Jacob stood up at the end of our small rowboat holding one of the ship’s torch lanterns out in front of him, while Garvin and Sydney rowed slowly down the small overgrown river. One that you wouldn’t see without a special map that gave the exact directions to its whereabouts. Tammy and I sat side by side with Brandon and Derek cramped in behind us. We were all wide eyed and waiting for anything to jump out and sink the boat. I was at least happy knowing that Tanda and Jessie were back on the ship with Johnny and Shyanna. The ship had been taken back out to sea and was told to return in three hours later. After coming down the small river entrance I was beginning to think that we might not be there when they showed up.
    Jacob started calling out words that made no sense to any of us. Things that sounded like, “Ta nosh tu ah knotu wau.” It was a language that I had certainly never heard, but being from the small town of Burkett, Texas, that wasn’t really saying a lot. The deeper we went the creepier our surroundings became. Long waving strands of moss hung from the trees, which created a hollow over the river like some sort of live, wooden cave. Long grass and bushy undergrowth stood as tall as a man and concealed anything and everything from our vision. Jacob repeated the words every few minutes, until very faintly we