Awakening Earth and Fire: Earth and Fire Trilogy Book 1 by Jacqueline Edie

Author:Jacqueline Edie [Edie, Jacqueline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-15T06:00:00+00:00

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Lifting my head from the soft, down pillow, I slowly opened my eyes and, tearing myself from the final few tendrils of sleep that still clung, blinked at the bright light filtering through the smooth windowpanes. Morning already. It had come so quickly.

I gazed around the room sleepily, but my eyes were drawn back to the window again. And to the light streaming through. It looked odd, almost hazy. Maybe it was raining?

Reaching down to the warm quilt still covering me, I moved to toss it off…and then hesitated. The texture felt wrong, the material worn, the fabric pilled. I leaned closer, studying it with my still groggy eyes.

It wasn’t the quilt I had covering me when I went to bed that night.

It was the quilt that covered my bed at home.

Gasping, I shot up, my eyes instantly widening as I scanned my surroundings. I was home. In my room. In my bed. But how could I be home? I was at the Training. Wasn’t I? Was my mind so sleep addled that I could no longer tell the two apart?

Suddenly the door squeaked open. And there, standing in the middle of the frame, was my mother. Slowly she moved towards me, her steps graceful, her pale gray dress swishing against her. Perching her slender body at the edge of my bed, she peered at me with wide eyes.

So wide and yet… they weren’t clear. Weren’t bright. They were…vacant.

“Mom? Mom, why am I here?” I managed, but she just shook her head slowly. Those vacant eyes creased at the edges now, worry filling them.

“You have to go, Sage. It will lead you. The ring will show you the way.”

“Wha…What?” My heart thrummed nervously against my chest as confusion racked my brain. “What are you talking about? What’s happening?”

But instead of answering, she just repeated those same words. “The ring will show you the way. The ring will show you the way.”

Slowly rising, spine rigid, she moved back towards the door, her steps no longer graceful, but robotic, mechanical. Her voice grew lower, but the last words continued to repeat. Over and over. “The way…the way…the way…”

“But I don’t understand. Mom, please! Help me understand!”

But she just kept moving, right out the door.

Tossing the quilt all the way off now, I flung myself out of the bed and raced through the doorway, expecting to follow her down the hall and through to the kitchen. But instead of warm wood as I’d expected, my bare foot hit cold, damp ground.

I was outside. And with sudden clarity I knew I was on the path I’d taken to the Training. We both were, I realized, as my eyes caught sight of her continuing on ahead, so far in the distance now her voice was barely audible.

Without hesitation, I tore after her, desperate to catch up, desperate for answers. Trampling dirt and leaves underfoot, rocks and twigs tore at my bare feet as they hit the ground, the frigid wind whipping my hair back. I

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