Alora by Tamie Dearen

Author:Tamie Dearen [Dearen, Tamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult, coming of age, Paranormal, Romance, sword and sorcery
Publisher: Pronoun
Published: 2016-11-21T05:00:00+00:00

~13~

Finally!

Raelene almost called out loud in her excitement. Day after day she’d read through the ancient manuscripts, much of the time with Bardamen’s less-than-enthusiastic participation. She didn’t blame him for his obvious distaste of the task. Unlike her, Bardamen couldn’t call on a gifting in wisdom to ease the work. A smile tugged at the corner of her mouth as she remembered how the young shaman had studied with more diligence whenever they were joined by Meravelle, who not only had wisdom gifting, but language gifting as well. The vivacious scribe had translated many parchments covered with strange scribblings under Bardamen’s close supervision.

All had been to no avail, until today.

While the intent of the search was to learn more about soulmates, including the possibility of breaking the bond between Kaevin and Alora without severing their lives, she’d stumbled upon a profound passage concerning an entirely different matter. The faded verse had been difficult to decipher until a dusting of pressure powder revealed the missing letters. The writing referred to forbidden dark magick that sounded much like that performed by Vindrake, and it claimed these dangerous writings were contained in an ancient parchment, the Maladorn Scroll.

But the name of the scroll was not what had Raelene ready to dance in celebration. No, it was the postscript to a descriptive warning about the scroll, which stated it revealed “the path to power, marked by evil,” but also “power’s destruction, marked by sacrifice.” Surely that meant the Maladorn Scroll also held the key to Vindrake’s ultimate defeat.

Only one small problem marred her discovery. Alleraen had once mentioned this same name when referring to a scroll in his brother’s possession. Obtaining the scroll would be difficult, at best. Yet she refused to believe it was impossible.

Meanwhile, Meravelle had agreed to lead them to Serenshire, where they might still find answers about the soulmate bond, and Graely could seek an alliance in the battle against Vindrake.

Raelene had thought Bastaeno would take them to Serenshire, but since her previous visit he had taken an oath to protect the Craedenza and could never again leave Glaenshire. Before enacting the Craedenza oath, however, he’d shown his granddaughter the way to Tenavae’s “City of Peace.”

According to their prearranged plan, Raelene expected Alora to transport the rest of the expedition group to Glaenshire in the next few days to begin the next leg of their journey. I can’t wait to tell Graely about the message on the scroll!

“Raelene!”

Meravelle’s voice. She’d probably come to the Craedenza to fetch Raelene for dinner.

“Meravelle! Come and see what I’ve found!”

“Raelene! There’s an attack!” Bursting into the room, Mera grabbed Raelene’s arm. “Bardamen says it’s Water Clan. Come quickly and bring all the scrolls you can carry. I need your help.”

Raelene ignored her pounding heart and moved with calm deliberation to scoop up an armful of scrolls and parchments and follow Meravelle—likewise burdened—through the open doorway into the back archive room where the majority of the documents were housed.

Dropping her scrolls on the floor, Mera

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