Awakened Guardians (Awakened Spells Book Four) by Logan Byrne

Author:Logan Byrne [Byrne, Logan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-25T16:00:00+00:00

9

“I’m back here,” I mumbled, looking around at the Japanese gardens that I’d once visited while meditating with my mark. It was the same, but clearer, as if I’d broken through a foggy haze that had been clouding me before.

I looked around, walking over a curved wooden bridge, the sound of wind chimes gently clinking in the distance. Pink and white petals fell from a cherry blossom tree. Frogs leapt around a nearby pond covered in lily pads without a care in the world.

“Welcome back, it’s good to see you,” a woman said, and I spun around.

“Kaia,” I said, before tilting my head, realizing I suddenly knew her name.

“Yes, I knew you would eventually start to reconnect the dots to construct your past,” she said, smiling. “Come with me.”

The two of us walked towards a small wooden hut in the center of the gardens. It had a triangular roof with a red wooden beam on top. When I walked closer I noticed there weren’t any doors or walls. There was a beam, one on each corner, and something sitting in the middle.

“What is it?” I asked, curious.

“It’s to communicate with and pay honor to the mark. I built it ten years into my tenure as bearer,” she said, extending her hand. “Please, sit.”

I sat on a cushion, Kaia sitting across from me, as I smelled the light odor of incense burning near a brass bell underneath the shrine. “Why is all of this clearer now? What happened to me?” I asked.

“You’re in a coma,” she said, smiling.

“What? How? I wasn’t even hurt, I was just tired,” I said.

“Well, I suppose it isn’t so much a coma as it is a cocoon. You’re being protected,” she said.

“How is that protecting me? Will I wake up soon?” I asked.

“Quite soon, actually. When you entered the state you were in to ward off the duskhowlers, you consumed much more of the mark than you are trained to control, especially so soon after your encounter with the harpies in Africa. This is your body’s way, or the mark’s way, of protecting your spirit and rejuvenating you,” she said.

“But that doesn’t explain why all of this is different. The haze is gone, and I knew your name! I didn’t know it before, did I?” I asked, starting to seriously question myself.

“You weren’t able to completely connect to us until you realized the full power of the mark. When you did those two feats, it triggered a mitochondrial response inside you that sort of opened the floodgates. With that, you were able to see us more clearly and gain a better grasp of the mark. It flipped the switch for you. All of us experienced it the first time we entered it,” Kaia said, smiling.

I looked around again, feeling the calm breeze brush against my face, before a pixie flew by me, carrying a flower. “A pixie,” I said, watching her fly off.

“Oh, yes, I work with them extensively. They’re such great workers, and friends, if you get to know them.

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