Amethyst in Ashes by Kiersten Lillis

Author:Kiersten Lillis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: YA fantasy, Teen fantasy, Time Travel, Magic, Destiny, Fate, female protagonist
Publisher: Kiersten Lillis
Published: 2019-03-28T00:00:00+00:00

“Hazel, let’s talk.” Talullah knocked on the bedroom door again but received no response. After thirty minutes, she gave up.

“No luck,” she told Dhalian as she entered their room.

“She’ll come around. She’s in shock, I’m sure.” He separated the keys on his bed so they lay in a single layer.

“So am I.” Talullah crossed the room and plopped down next to him. “She has something to do with the maze, I’m sure of it. But I don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing.” Her insides squirmed. “What if she really is working for Renevelda and she hid her memories so she wouldn’t give herself away?”

Dhal gave her a skeptical look. “Really? You think she’s the witch’s minion?”

She picked up a key. “It’s possible. I didn’t tell her we thought the stone was in the maze, but if she’s on Renevelda’s side she might already know. She could be using us to guide her to it, and then once we do, she’ll turn on us.” She dropped the key. It tinkled against the others.

Dhalian squinted at the parchment with the riddle, Talullah’s notes about keys, then back at the key he held in front of his face. “Possible, sure. But what does that mean? If we want to get the stone from the maze, we have to play the game. And we can’t play without her or we start over, remember?”

Talullah pinched the bridge of her nose and closed her eyes. “I know, I know. I feel like we’re not even close.” Margot and Penny’s faces, always latent in her mind, drifted to the surface. “I can’t make them wait any longer.”

Dhalian grabbed one of her hands in his and lifted her chin with the other. “Hey. We’re getting there. And Hazel’s memories will start returning. Even if she’s on the other side, she’ll know something useful and we’ll weasel it out. In the meantime...” He gestured to the assortment of metal shapes and her notes. “Can you decipher what this says?”

She leaned over her notebook. “Top = bow.” She shook her head, flipping her short dark hair against her chin. “Must have been tired when I wrote that. Doesn’t make any sense.”

Dhal’s face lit up. “Yes, it does. What if ‘bow’ isn’t pronounced like ‘how,’ but like ‘know’. ‘Star bow’ doesn’t have to do with boats or arrows at all. It means the top of the key is a star. Is there one like that here?”

Clarity broke through her wall of doubt. She smiled. “Dhal. You might be brilliant.”

“What do you mean might?”

They scanned the pile.

“Here,” Dhalian thrust a key at her. “I’ve done my part. Now show off those fancy Sight skills of yours. Figure out what it unlocks.”

Each of the star’s five points poked into her palm as she closed her hand around the key’s top. Magic flowed into her fingers. She couldn’t control Hazel’s intentions or her mother’s whereabouts, but she could control her Sight. Finally. Eyes closed, she reached for events attached to the key.

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