A Threat Revealed (The Elder Stones Saga Book 7) by D.K. Holmberg

Author:D.K. Holmberg [Holmberg, D.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2019-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

22

Daniel

“What do you suggest we do?” Rayen asked, looking to Carth.

Carth let out a heavy sigh, shifting her position and getting to her knees. She was slow, sluggish, and something else was off about her. Daniel couldn’t tell whether it was fatigue or something else, but she wasn’t going to be effective in any sort of fight.

“Carth?” Rayen said.

Carth glanced over, but she seemed to have a hard time focusing on them.

Rayen got to her feet, shifting her sword and beginning to unsheathe it.

Daniel looked around, wondering if he could Slide, but even if he could, he wasn’t sure it was safe yet. With the nature of what they had gone through and the energy they had all expended, he wasn’t certain they had enough strength to resist.

Grabbing his sword, he shifted it from hand to hand, looking down to the pool of shadows. He could feel it there, and it seemed as if it were tempting him to reach toward it.

The power within the shadows was restored. They had done that. And the longer he focused on it, the more certain he was that power was still there for him to draw upon—only he wasn’t entirely sure that he could.

“Carth?” he asked.

She looked up, her eyes glazed.

“We’re going to have to do this,” Rayen said.

“I don’t know that we can.”

If they tried to fight, they would be doing so without any abilities. As much as he had trained, he still depended on his abilities.

He crouched down, slipping an arm around Carth and helping her to her feet. Rayen joined him, and Daniel swung his gaze around the inside of the chamber. They hadn’t explored very far in here before, and though he knew the palace was overhead, he wondered if there might be some other place he could reach by going deeper underground.

What other choice did they have? He needed to find some way to get free and wasn’t sure where to go.

“We can hide,” he said.

Rayen nodded. They dragged Carth, pulling her along with them, and reached a section in the wall. It was irregular, as if this part of the wall hadn’t been carved out as cleanly as other places, and he leaned up against it, the stone pressing into his back.

Wrapping shadows around them to mask them would not require nearly as much strength, and he had to hope that he had enough energy remaining for that. Rayen started manipulating the shadows and let out a soft cry.

“What is it?”

“I can’t,” she said.

“You can’t what?”

“I can’t control them the way I need to,” she said. “I think it has to do with how much effort we expended.”

Daniel breathed out. Could he draw upon the shadows? He wasn’t sure, but he had to try. One of them had to succeed, and Carth couldn’t help them.

He focused on the darkness.

It wasn’t just the darkness he needed to hone in on; it was what was coming up from deep within the earth.

He could feel it. That sense of shadows swirled around him, drawing closer to him.

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