Nephilius - A Walker Saga Book 5 by Jaymin Eve Read Free Book Online Page B

standing only around
four feet tall, and all of them had sweeping hair in varying colors
that reached their ankles. It was the same with their eyes. Many
shades of flowered two- or three-colored eyes were turned in our
direction as we walked past. Their laughter and play died off as we
became the focus.
    “Finally a world where I’m tall.” Lucy
waggled her brows up and down at me.
    I grinned
briefly before my gaze was drawn back to
the lake.
    The confidence of their stance told me that
pixies ruled this land, but there were other creatures here also. A
tiny fluff-ball, which looked like a rabbit-hamster; a small breed
of horse or donkey; and a few others which I didn’t get a good look
at. Mainly because the moment they saw Cerberus they scampered for
the hills.
    Both of his doggy heads looked a tad pleased
as he marched along, tongues lolling from the sides of his mouths.
When I’d first looked into his large, dark eyes, I’d seen a trapped
sadness, but already he seemed to be happier. He was so scary to
look at that most wouldn’t have seen past the double heads, massive
sharp teeth and monstrous body, to the pain beneath. But the
intermingling of our energy had told me how intelligent and
powerful he was. And I was pretty sure I was already in love with
his huge, hairy butt.
    “Stick to the path; don’t drink from the
lake,” Refis ordered as we skimmed the body of water.
    Thousands of eyes continued to follow our
path, giving me that prickly feeling on the back of my neck.
    “This is similar to the land of fey and
strangers should not partake of the food and water.”
    “Fey?” Lucy said, jerking her head back to
find his eyes. “As in faerie?”
    Refis looked confused as he scratched his
chin in a jagged manner. “There are many creatures that fall under
the title of ‘fey’. Faeries and pixie are fey; we separated from
their land almost twenty years ago.”
    “Where is the land of fey?” I said, my lips
slightly parted.
    Refis bared his teeth at me. I was starting
to think that was his version of a smile. “Most of the fey are in
the emerald isles, a realm close to the Emperor’s castle.”
    I wondered if Lucas knew that. Something
told me he wouldn’t like them so close.
    I was really interested in hearing these
stories. I wanted to know why First World’s inhabitants featured so
heavily in the folklore and myths of Earth. Had they all somehow
visited Earth over the last few thousand years or had Walkers
spread the stories? And if pixies and faeries and all of the rest
had visited Earth, how did they get there? Did they know a Walker
and use the doorways? Or were there other powers to travel between
the worlds? Similar to the way the pixies lived in this dimension
of First World.
    Our
conversation died off as we rounded the far left side of the lake.
Refis came to an abrupt halt before pulling out his sword and
starting to perform a complicated cutting motion in the air. Lucy
and I stopped close by, outside of slashing range,
w atching and waiting; I had no idea what
pixie man was doing. Cerberus sat on his haunches next to
me.
    The third stroke of the weapon had a split
forming in thin air, and I coughed to cover my gasp. Refis was
creating an air-pocket, like the one he’d first emerged from near
the portal. And then with a half-grin thrown in our direction he
stepped into it.
    His look had been a challenge, daring us to
trust him and follow. I didn’t trust one hair on his head, but we
didn’t have many other choices right then. Inside we were
going.
    Lucy and I linked hands tightly and I may
have briefly shut my eyes as we stepped forward. I’d expected the
opening to be small, as if we had to squeeze through a sliver of
space, but instead we simply moved through to the other side.
    And then we
were somewhere else. I felt as if the lake vision had been an
illusion, and Refis had just changed the
background. The scene now was vastly different. We stood in the
shadows of a massive castle, a