Chapter Fourteen
Based on Eva’s descriptions, Serena had expected to arrive in Orlind to find a small, barren island of bare rock, separated from the mainland by a long stretch of water.
That was not exactly what happened.
They travelled to Orlind under escort, following Avane and with her companion flying behind. When the airship finally crested the last peak that divided them from the Seventh Realm, the vista that lay before them revealed no miserable lump of rock at all, but a flourishing island of considerable size.
Serena, Anserval, Eva and (to Serena’s delight) Fabian stood at the viewing deck together. When Orlind at last came into view, they were all taken by surprise. Even Anserval stopped mid-sentence in the middle of one of his monologues.
The glittering expanse of water th
