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

am so glad she is the first one I met in this world, instead of a human.

“What about me?” I hear from above me. I tilt my head and look at Bridget, who is still floating and is looking down at me with a pout.

“The more powerful I get,” I tell her with a grin, “the more powerful you get.”

She ponders that for a second, then gets a big smile on her face. “Oh, right!”

Chapter Twenty-Nine

“Have I mentioned just how stupid your fucking language is?” Leeha cries out in frustration.

I have been trying to teach her the difference between a foot that is attached to my leg, and a foot that is used for distance. I had been telling her to say ‘a water dagger a foot long’, but then she told me I was mistaken as a foot is something we put our boot into. I have been teaching her slowly as we head towards the Elders. This was our fifth night away from the Homestead.

I am finding out that yes, the English language is the most fucked up language, and there are so many damn homonyms! Words that are spelled the same and sound the same but mean different things.

“Trust me, I know. Even in my world, when someone had to learn it, it was a pain in the ass. My language is a smattering of lots of other languages. I mean, don’t get me started on slang,” I tell her with a sigh.

“Slang?” she repeats the unfamiliar word with a frown, turning to me.

“Yeah. Slang words are made-up words that mean something else. I don’t even want to get into that,” I tell Leeha with a laugh. “That’s a rabbit hole you don’t want to go down.”

“Your world sounds odd,” Bridget says from my other side.

“Odd? It’s different. I mean, we use technology, but here you use magic. To me, that is odd,” I tell her with a smile.

“I wish I could see your world,” Bridget says wistfully. “It sounds so fantastically odd.”

“Well, I doubt that will happen, Bridget. My God told me that I have no body in that world, as my body has a bullet through its head,” I tell her. And I’m not sure I would want to go back to my world. Go to a world without magic? No fucking way.

“Still,” she says with a sigh.

“I have to agree. Your world, even with its fucked up language that you speak, does sound amazing,” Leeha chimes in. “Though the lack of magic, as you said, is kind of sad.”

I throw another log on the fire and watch it catch quickly. We had stopped early for the night as Leeha had caught a small deer when we were running. Before I could even react, she had used a Water Bullet to shoot it with complete precision in the head. The kill was so clean that there was no blood coming out of the deer. I had Bridget use Air, and she carried it along behind us as we ran.

Leeha had me working on my stamina by running in spurts, and so we kept that up ‘til it was just starting to get dark, and she said we needed to find a camping spot. We ran for another fifteen minutes until we found what we needed. Once we did, Leeha prepped the deer, and it was already over the fire. The smell of the meat cooking was making my mouth water.

The dried meat we had was good, with some kind of spice added to it, probably to cure it. The Elven Bread, on the other hand? It was fucking hard. I guess I expected Elven Bread to be something like you’d see in the movies, where it was soft, kept forever, and tasted like heaven on a cloud. Nope. It was nothing more than hardtack.

“God, I would kill to clean up,” I say with a sigh. “I stink to high heaven.” I lift my left arm and sniff, before pulling away quickly in disgust. I need a lake or something to dip in. “Is there a lake around here?” I ask Leeha.

“I have no clue. I never looked for one when I last went to see the Elders, and I was thirteen at the time,” she says with a laugh. “But yes, I would kill for a bath as well,” she finishes with a sad sigh.

Yeah, a bath would be nice, I think with a smile. Hell, a hot tub for all three of us would be amazing right now. I was going to say I miss that, but I never really had that when I was on Earth. I went to a friend’s party once at his parents’ house and they had a hot tub, but only the cool kids went in.

“What was the wistful sigh for?” Leeha asks me with a smile.

“I was remembering something from my world. We had this thing that was called a hot tub where you would soak in it and air bubbles would come out from the bottom and the sides. The water was hot and it was good for sore muscles. It wasn’t used for washing, but to relax,” I tell her with a laugh.

“That sounds like paradise,” Leeha says with a sigh. “I would love to soak in some hot water for these sore muscles,” she says and stretches up her arms, which makes her large breasts stick out even more in the tight outfit she is wearing.

She had changed from her leathers into a white cloth outfit that is still open and shows off her chest and stomach. She is also wearing this blue stone jewel piece on her forehead. When I asked her about it, she said it was because she was going to see the Elders. It was meant to show that she was one of the stronger Water Mages. So a rank system, I told her, and she simply nodded.

I look around the small area we are staying in for the night.