Alisandra's Kairos: Book 5 (Call of the Elements) by Yvette Bostic

Author:Yvette Bostic [Bostic, Yvette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-14T22:00:00+00:00

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Half an hour later, I stood in my kitchen with my bloodied armor in a plastic bag. I had no idea where to go. Lodron hadn’t told me if we were supposed to meet somewhere. I hoped they didn’t want me involved in the questioning of Elise or her dark warrior, but they might need me to heal one of them. I didn’t want to ask Lodron, though, not after the way he left.

Ron?

Where are you? he responded immediately.

At home. Where do you need me?

Where’s Lodron?

I paused, not sure how to answer. I assumed he went back to the castle after we got his darkness under control. Is he not there?

Another pause followed, and a niggle of worry poked at me. Where would he have gone? Especially now, when we had so much going on that required his skills.

He’s not talking to anyone, AJ, Ronquil finally said. There are a few places we can look, but if you think of anything else…

I will, I promised.

I went to my room at the palace and dropped off my bloody armor, knowing that someone would pick it up and clean it, then I went to the beach below my house.

Lodron sat on our rock looking out at the ocean. He’d obviously taken the time to go home and change. Maybe even shower. He wore the same dark pants and linen shirt he always wore when he came to my little section of beach. A pair of leather shoes lay on the rock next to him.

I sat beside him and watched a frown pull at his lips. Whatever was on his mind couldn’t be good, not if it kept him from his duties. Something even I knew he took very seriously.

We sat in silence for several minutes before he turned to me.

“Do you know how many people we’ve lost to the darkness?” he asked. “How many we’ve had to send to the Forest of Tears because they became consumed by it?”

I didn’t answer even though I’d seen the hundreds of trees in the Forest. That was the first time I’d realized I had more family than just an estranged father. Grant had met me among the trees and pleaded for my help to overthrow his mother. In hindsight, I wasn’t ready then.

Lodron’s voice brought me back to the beach and why I was here. “We’ve suffered so much because of a decision made hundreds of years ago. We’ve been taught to subdue the darkness, to keep it locked up tight so it didn’t escape and drive us mad. If you’re right, we’ve been doing it all wrong. Why couldn’t we figure this out on our own?” He searched my face for answers I didn’t have. “We could’ve saved so many lives had we known.”

He paused again. The pain in his eyes tugged at my heart, but I didn’t have answers for him.

“Tell me something, AJ. Anything to make sense of the pointless death.”

“I wish I could, Lodron. If I had answers for you, I’d be spilling my guts in a heartbeat, but I don’t know why you guys didn’t figure it out.

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