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The World Walkers: Kankirin: Tanis: Escaping (part 3)
Bran looked at Tanis. “How much do you know about what we are?”
“I’ve been travelling the worlds since I realised I was a natural Walker. Until I got arrested it wasn’t something I was particularly worried about, because I hadn’t been to Athare for years, but the door I stepped through led to the main continent of Athare and the Council were there waiting for me.” Tanis shrugged. “The thing I’ve learnt is that the doors have a bad habit of taking someone where they need to be rather than where they want to be and it’s possible I was meant to get arrested for some reason.” She smiled at Bran. “It was possible you were meant to get arrested too.”
“Why did you chose to travel the worlds?”
Tanis ran a hand through her hair. “The first door I stepped through, many years ago, took me from Kniroch to Siaral, which wouldn’t have been a problem if I hadn’t travelled through time too. I found myself 400 years in the future and the worlds had changed a lot in that time.” She ran her tongue over her bottom lip. “Every journey I take may get me home, but I don’t think it will ever happen. None of the time travellers I’ve met have ever been lucky enough to get back to the time they came from.
“I don’t know what to say.”
“You don’t need to say anything, Bran. I still miss my family, and if I did get home I’d be ecstatic, but I’ve come to terms with what happened to me.” Tanis smiled. “I had a choice when I realised what had happened. I could either spend my entire life focusing on what I’d lost or I could accept that my old life was gone and work on creating a new one. There are other people who would never have moved on, but I’m not like that. I tried to keep moving, because I decided I never wanted to get close to anyone, just in case I ended up travelling through time again, and that didn’t work as well as I was hoping.” She looked around, remembering the first time she’d found herself in the same clearing and what had happened in the year she’d been on Kankirin. “I think we need to focus on where we are, because this world… there are some parts of it that are controlled by people you really don’t want to meet. We’re in a safe part, luckily, so I have time to teach you about Kankirin.”
“The lost world?”
“One of the three.” Tanis bit her lip. “Although that is what the fae told us. There’s a chance there might be more than three and the fae simply chose to not mention them for whatever reason.”
“How did we get here?”
“Luck. I’m not sure whether it’s bad or good luck yet, but it was definitely down to luck.”
“Where do you think the others ended up?”
“I have no idea.”
Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.
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