Arcana Universalis: Danse Macabre by Chris J. Randolph

Author:Chris J. Randolph [Randolph, Chris J.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: fantasy, wizards in space, space travel'
Publisher: Oktopod Digital Press
Published: 2012-03-28T04:00:00+00:00

The boy sits in lotus position, quietly sobbing just like he has throughout the day for more months than he’d care to remember. This is his life now: sitting and concentrating in a darkened chamber, waiting in perfect isolation for the ineffable to miraculously happen. There are no friends here nor enemies. There is no drama. No submission. Just deep silence spoiled by his sobbing for ten hours a day, until he’s finally released for a paltry meal and fitful night’s rest.

The one thought he can’t escape is that he’s doing something wrong. Why else would his failure have stretched out across so many months? But it’s not as if there’s much he can do differently. He sits. He breathes. He tries to relax. He waits for something that was supposed to come naturally, but remains frustratingly out of reach.

The chamber is small, just barely large enough for him to sit cross-legged inside it without butting up against its strangely angled walls. He examines those walls often, puzzling over the purpose of their sharply sculpted edges, odd protrusions, spiraled cavities. After all this time, he figures he could probably replicate the entire structure from memory if he had to, down to the smallest, most seemingly insignificant detail. He’s even starting to understand the theory behind it, he thinks, the way those walls would reflect and amplify eddies and tides of invisible energies.

The walls tremble and then he sees a spark. A glimmer. A fissure. It’s like a glowing dandelion seed twirling in the air, and he’s utterly mesmerised. It takes several long minutes of staring for him to realize his time has finally come.

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