Balance (The Divine, Book One) by Forbes M.R

Author:Forbes, M.R. [Forbes, M.R.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-01-26T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 14

I was only out for a few seconds. When I woke, I was sitting on my bed at the Belmont, naked and coated in a sheen of sweat. Ulnyx was sitting across from me, behind a piano, his fingers tickling the ivories. When he saw me, he started laughing.

“Be quiet, Ulnyx,” a familiar voice said.

The demon quieted and placed his hands in his lap. I looked over to the door. Sarah was standing there, looking the same as she had before she put me to sleep, except... different. It was her eyes. They were whole in this place, an incredible reddish gold that shimmered and danced like Josette’s.

“I’m sorry, brother,” she said to me. “You were weak, and you will need to be strong to carry on with your purpose.”

“How can you be here?” I asked her, clothing myself in a simple black t-shirt and sweats before she could see me.

“You invited me,” she replied.

“How?”

Sarah giggled again. “You called to me, and I came. There is so much you still have so little control over. Like him.” She jerked her head towards Ulnyx. “You have trapped his soul, yet he refuses to do your bidding when it does not suit him.”

“I can’t make him,” I said.

“No? Ulnyx, stand up,” she Commanded. He kicked out the piano bench and stood. “This is your Source brother. If you cannot rule here, you will continue to fail.”

Continue to fail? I looked at the Were. His expression was contained, a mixture of surprise and anger. The way he had jumped at her Command. This was my dream, my world, and yet she had more power in it then I did. The thought drove me to anger.

“How do I learn control, when there is no one to teach me?” I asked, my voice almost a snarl.

“You do not need to learn, all you must do is ask why. Why are you?” She hadn’t reacted at all to my outburst. She remained calm, unaffected.

“I don’t know,” I said. Why were any of us? According to Dante, we were just pieces in a puzzle that did not fit, figures in a game with no end.

“The game cannot continue if you do not play.” Sarah hopped over to me and looked up into my eyes. “Why are you?” she asked again.

I looked from Ulnyx, to her, and back. Continue to fail... His static posture was a representation of every failure I had experienced since Mr. Ross had left me on Lady Liberty. Yeah, I was still alive, but I had remained that way because of dumb luck. Every scrape I had been in had resulted in somebody intervening to save my sorry ass. Even now Sarah was here, showing me how powerless I truly was. Ulnyx had been right. I was pathetic.

“I don’t know,” I growled, the feeling of hopelessness spreading from the inside out.

“This world is your Source, brother,” Sarah said, maintaining her perfect calm. “Its oceans are boundless, its mountains endless. Would you be a flea, or a titan? Why are you?”

“I don’t know.

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