Elemental Summoner 1 by D. Levesque (best beach reads of all time TXT) 📕

“No, just keep one of the candles,” she says, looking at me curiously.

Wind. I imagine the wind blowing out the flame that’s in the oil lantern, and it goes off. Then I think of the wind going to the candles and only blowing out two of them, and just like that, two of them are out. Wind, I think again, to release the Elemental. Within minutes, we are both asleep.

The next morning, I wake up without Leeha in bed with me. Before the panic can set in, she comes in and says she went downstairs to let the innkeeper know that I was ready for my two breakfasts. I have just enough time to get dressed into my gray leather pants and shirt, but not my boots, before Pricilla knocks on the door and Leeha goes to answer it, head down.

Pricilla walks in with a tray again and on the table deposits two plates with bacon, eggs, beans, and a bread roll on each one, as well as two cups of steaming liquid. From the smell, I can tell what it is before I even see it. It’s fucking coffee! Pricilla also places a small jar down, as well as another mug of water- I had drank the first one last night after our lovemaking-and another hard loaf of bread. I mean, not a full loaf like I would get back home. This loaf of bread is half the size.

“This is cream,” Pricilla says, pointing to the jar. “I wasn’t sure if you wanted milk with your coffee? And did you want both cups of coffee? That’s a lot of coffee,” she asks me, unsure.

“Yes, keep both. I love coffee,” I tell her with a cheerful smile. Fucking right, I love coffee. I was so addicted to the stuff that while I know this wis a new body, I still have cravings for it, especially in the mornings.

“Very well. When you finish eating, my Lord, just leave the dishes. The cleaning staff will take it away when you leave. I assume you are leaving today?” Pricilla asks me questioningly.

“Yes, I sent my bodyguard on an errand, and he will be meeting us just outside the city walls, a couple of miles out,” I tell her, lying.

“Well, just remember, if you ever want a good place to stay, The White Sheep is one of the better inns in Lomar,” she says.

“Yes, that is what Le-, my Elf told me,” I say, almost forgetting that masters don’t use their slaves’ name.

“Oh! Good slave!” Pricilla says, walking over to the taller Leeha and patting her on the head like a dog. “Well, you need to come back then!” Pricilla says, beaming as she heads to the door.

“Yeah, I will,” I say cheerfully, but only if I am going to burn this fucking place down. I am so mad inside that I would love nothing better than to call up Fire and just set this place ablaze.

This world, the way it treats its slaves, based on the stuff Leeha has been telling me, is worse than any history I ever read about back home. Elves, Felinis, Rabinis, Dragonis, and Mer, are all treated worse than property. The Mer, Leeha says, are lucky in that they live in water, such as lakes, rivers, seas, or oceans. But the rest of them are hunted in order to become slaves. They have no rights. Even coming into the cities, most take their chances that they won’t be abducted. Leeha says the only reason she’s been left alone is because she would show them her magic, and they would back off.

The couple of times that they tried to abduct her here in Lomar, she showed the humans it wasn’t worth it. But that means each time she comes to the city, she might meet someone who is more powerful and is willing to try. Of course, now that she has me as her ‘master’, they will leave her alone. Or we hope, anyway. But we decided that if need be, I will use my ability as a Water mage, and show them the error of their ways. And right now, with the way I feel, I fucking hope they do try.

Leeha comes over to me after locking the door and puts a hand on my chest. “Alex? It’s all right,” she says softly.

“No, it’s not!” I tell her angrily, but the anger isn’t directed at her. Then I sigh and let out a deep breath.

“But I am not powerful enough to do anything about it. Yet. Shall we eat breakfast? What’s our plan after this?” I ask her, sitting down at the table and pushing one of the plates over to her side, as she sits down in the chair opposite mine.

“Once we are done breakfast, we will grab some supplies and head back out into Mital Forest. That was the reason I was coming here. I came here for a job and money to buy supplies, but since I am with you, I am wondering if you can make money for us?” she asks, almost pleadingly.

“Aren’t we leaving today, though?” I ask her, puzzled.

Nodding, she takes a bite of her eggs before answering. “Yes, but most of the jobs you can do as a powerful Water mage can be done in hours. Especially by you,” she tells me with a grin.

“Right,” I laugh. I pick up the mug of coffee and splash in some milk, which I see is thick like cream, not the normal two percent milk on Earth, and take a sip. I sigh happily.

“Better than sex?” Leeha asks me jokingly.

“Sex with you? No fucking way. Sex with others? Possibly,” I tell her with a grin.

Chapter Sixteen

“You want me to trust you, an unknown Water mage, with a task?” snorts the short, skinny man sitting at a desk in the building that Leeha brought me to. He is dressed in