Fate's Surrender (Eternal Sorrows Book 3) by Sarra Cannon (android based ebook reader txt) 📕

hand through his dark hair. “That’s going to be a longer trek than we expected. Do you know if the water’s clear? Any boats or debris in the East River?”

Parrish had the urge to pull out one of the maps Tank had given her and see where he was talking about. She’d only been to New York City a handful of times, and mostly they had stayed near the opera house in Manhattan. She’d never been to the Bronx, and she wasn’t even sure where that was in comparison to the island.

She was worried that if she broke the connection to everyone’s hands, though, so she could look at a map, they’d also lose their connection to the fifth.

“I saw a lot of ships in the river,” David said, shaking his head. “It’s a mess. Some of the bridges are down, too. Some people were trying to evacuate that way, and it all got overrun. I can scope it out, if you need me to, but I don’t think you can use the East River.”

Crash sighed. “We’ll need to pull out a map and take a look around, but tell me. How the hell did you get Zoe all the way to the Bronx without getting overrun by rotters? Isn’t the whole city crawling with those things by now?”

Wow. Parrish hadn’t even been thinking about that but Crash was right. How had he done that? Was it possible things weren’t really as bad as they seemed?

But the boy smiled like he knew a secret no one else knew.

”It’s a long story,” he said. “Let’s just say we travelled across rooftops and were able to avoid almost all of the rotters. I wish I could tell you the city was better than you think, but it’s horrible here. So many are dead. I haven’t seen any survivors in a while.”

“Rooftops?” Parrish whispered.

“You can fly,” Karmen said, practically jumping up and breaking their connection.

Parrish barely held onto her hand.

“I can’t believe I’d forgotten it, but seeing you again like this tonight,” Karmen said. “I remember. David can fly.”

Parrish’s eyes grew wide. She could hardly believe it, but then again, they all had incredible powers. What an awesome one to have when you were stuck in a huge city, though.

“That’s freaking crazy,” Crash said. “Can you really?”

David nodded. “I think so,” he said. “It started with me running really fast. I was able to get food and bring it back to the apartment without any of those things catching up with me. But then, when I sensed the guardian close by, I knew I needed to get to Manhattan. I was forced onto the rooftops, but that’s when I realized I could do more than run fast. It’s hard to explain, but I can control the air. I can ride it, like a bird. At least for a little while.”

Parrish looked again at the symbol on the fatalis stone that represented the fifth. A spiral.

Air.

It made sense.

They all did, in a way.

Lightning for Crash, and he could not only control and communicate with electricity and technology, but now he could also shoot lightning bolts and streams of lightning from his hands.

A cross for Noah. Healing and shielding. Crosshairs for accuracy.

A flame and a rose for Karmen. Beauty and fire. Passion. Manipulation. Being able to reach inside someone else’s mind and control them or hear their thoughts.

Now a spiral for air and flight.

But what did her infinity symbol mean? Parrish thought maybe her symbol should have been a sword or a weapon of some kind.

She knew the infinity sign was for her. Some deep part of her recognized it, but she still wasn’t quite sure what it meant.

“So, you flew all the way to Manhattan, picked up Zoe, and then made it all the way back to your apartment in Concourse Village without being detected by the Dark One or the witch we knew as Lily?” Crash asked.

“I never saw the witch, but I was careful to stay hidden from the eyes of the rotters,” David said. “I think if the Dark One saw us, she would have come for us already.”

“I think she would have, too,” Parrish said. “So, for now, we hope and believe she doesn’t know where you are. She seems to know where we are, though. Even though we’re traveling now, I have a feeling she can sense us or the stone. Or both. If we come to the city, she’ll know we’re there.”

“Lily’s probably there now, too.” Karmen said. “Maybe that’s part of why the Dark One came after us yesterday at the compound. She sent Lily to get Zoe, and it didn’t work. She must have been pissed.”

“She wanted me to believe she already had Zoe,” Parrish said. “I don’t think she knew we could communicate, but I guess I let that cat out of the bag. I told her I knew she didn’t have my sister and that she didn’t know where Zoe was. She seemed surprised by that.”

“Well, that’s good in a way,” Noah said. “It proves she doesn’t know everything, and it shows that we might be able to rattle her if things don’t go according to her plans.”

“What do you know about the island?” Parrish asked. “Have you been dreaming about it like we have? About getting a purple stone there so we can get our memories back?”

The boy nodded.

“The fatalis stone must go back to the Island of Memories,” he said. “Tobias was supposed to lead us all there, but I can’t sense him in this world. Do you know what happened to him?”

Parrish explained Lily’s confession about killing Tobias when they’d both come through the portal.

“That’s what broke my magical seal,” David said, shaking his head. “All that careful planning, destroyed in an instant. We must get to the island to reseal this world from her magic.”

“What will happen when we get there?” Crash asked. “Do you know or remember?”

Crash had obviously picked up on the same thing Parrish had. David was