Alchemist Adept (The Alchemist Book 4) by Dan Michaelson & D.K. Holmberg

Author:Dan Michaelson & D.K. Holmberg [Michaelson, Dan & Holmberg, D.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2021-09-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Sam made his way through the halls of the Academy, hurrying as quickly as he could. He needed to get back to his room, to rest, but his mind raced. Sam still didn’t know what had happened. Joiner hadn’t known either, only suspecting that there had been a surge of power that had attempted to call Sam to it. Sam suspected that it was tied to the Nighlan, but Joiner was not convinced. He believed that it was from Lilith, though there had been nothing that had happened that seemed like it was her.

By the time he reached the tolath tower, he hurried out and quickly made his way to Tara’s room. When he reached her, she pulled the door open, glowering at him.

He stepped inside and looked around her room before starting to pace. “I managed to draw upon other access points,” he said, turning to her and motioning to the almanac. He had carried it with him, not wanting to leave it behind as usual. “But something happened when I did. The lanterns activated.”

Her expression clouded. “Her?”

“I don’t think so. Although Joiner doesn’t agree. He blames her, but I don’t think that we can. This just happened.”

“And you didn’t do anything this time?”

“Not this time. I was trying to reach for multiple access points. I wasn’t even attempting to trigger the lanterns. I don’t want to imply I have a better understanding of this power.”

Or perhaps more of a connection to the access points.

“Now that you can reach more than one access point, does that mean that you can begin to work through the almanac better?” Tara asked.

Sam glanced down at. “I think so,” he said, and he looked up at her, holding her gaze. “But I don’t know. It’s incredibly difficult to draw upon a second access point, and then reaching the third and the fourth are draining. It’s like letting all this power flow out through me at one time.”

“Then restrict it,” she said.

“I don’t know how.”

She laughed. “It amuses me to hear you admit that you don’t know something.”

“Well, when it comes to this, I simply don’t know. I feel like I need to get a better understanding of it and to master the different access points, but maybe you’re right. Maybe I do need to restrict that power so that it doesn’t flow through me quite as openly as it did before. Maybe that it won’t cause me to get as tired as it does.”

“And maybe you can actually use some of those patterns in the almanac.”

That was about as much as Tara would say about her concern about the Nighlan as she ever did. She never spoke of the Nighlan, at least not much, but he knew that it was on her mind. It was often on her mind, much like it was on his mind.

“I don’t really know what those patterns will do,” he admitted. “I think they will be useful, but what if they aren’t?” He locked eyes with her. “What if they don’t help us at all?”

“Then they don’t help.

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