Grounding Gracus (First Wave Book 6)
the bird truly was. Or how majestic. It was at least the size of one of the Sibiox cats from Valendra.
    He watched in silent awe until the bird finally spread its massive wings and expertly weaved its wave through the trees in flight. He had no words to describe how amazing that had been to see and ignored his beast who was telling him that something wasn’t right.
    To Gracus, nothing could be more perfect than this. He spread his arms out wide and tilted his head back and almost choked on the now empty candy stick in his mouth. Pulling it out, he put it in the pocket with the wrapper of the last one and grabbed another one of the candies.
    He started to add the new wrapper to the last one when he decided to try and see what flavor it was. He pulled the wrapper taut so he could read it. “Mike’s Mountain Magic Blend”. Gracus shrugged and put it in his mouth. Whatever flavor it was supposed to be was just perfect, he thought with a sigh as he headed further into the forest, alongside the river.
    The voice of his beast seemed far away and annoying, like a buzzing in his head, so he ignored it, using his energy to block out everything but the wondrous world around him. He stopped, not far ahead to watch a couple of squirrels chase each other up a tree and laughed as their bushy tails shook fiercely before they disappeared from view.
    His laughter seemed to echo loudly in the forest and Gracus slapped a hand over his mouth dramatically and looked around with wide eyes, as if to see if the animals had heard him. His own actions caused the laughter to bubble up in him again and he snorted and giggled in his efforts not to burst out laughing.
    A part of him wondered why he felt so much like laughing while the rest of him felt so damn happy and free that he didn’t care. He finished off another one of the candies and suddenly thirsty he downed the entire bottle of water in one long pull. “Ah,” Gracus said, eying the river as he looked at the empty bottle in his hand.
    With a spring in his step he gingerly jumped onto a boulder on the edge of the river and leaned down on the rock as he held the opening of the bottle in the water. He laughed when the rushing water quickly filled the bottle and ran over his hands, tickling his fingers with the icy water.
    Gracus grinned as he pulled up the bottle and drank deeply. Oh damn that’s the best water he’d ever tasted , he thought as he finished it off and refilled it again. With his mouth no longer feeling so dry, he stood and headed back through the forest, popping another stick candy into his mouth. This time he didn’t care what the flavor was, it was good. And good was the best flavor of all , he thought with a lopsided grin.
    He’d only walked another mile or so before he realized that he was getting hungry. In fact he was seriously craving more candy or pancakes like from breakfast! He thought with a grin at the memory of the greasy spoon. He was definitely going back there for breakfast again.
    He sat down on a large boulder right on the river and pulled out a handful of the candies. Gracus spread them out on the rock and counted. He had twenty , he thought with a grin as he picked one up to see the flavor. “Mike’s Mountain Magic Blend”, he read before reading the smaller print underneath it. “All natural herbal flavor blend”. He put them all back in his pocket, save one.
    Gracus grinned like a fool until he burst out in giggles again. He popped the candy in his mouth and laid back on the rock and closed his eyes. The sound of the water rushing beside him wasn’t loud enough to dull the song of the birds and Gracus felt like he was swaying back and forth with the music of the Earth’s heartbeat and nature.
    He stayed like that until the candy was only a tiny ball in his mouth and he sat up, crunched the rest of it and went to grab another one when he heard the low growl from a few yards away. Unable to see what was making the noise, Gracus jumped down from
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