Blades of Sorcery by Terah Edun

Author:Terah Edun
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Terah Edun Publishing

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He lay in repose on the ground, almost as if he was sleeping, if not for the thick cord of red blood dripping from a nostril, down the corner of his mouth and onto the ground below him.

Isabelle walked over to where Sara sat on the ground staring at his body, startled. He had fallen just in front of her.

“What happened?” Sara asked in a daze as she looked at his beautiful body. It was almost uncanny his resemblance to a portrait sitting at that moment, except for the fact that he would never rise again.

“The strain was too much,” Isabelle said as she held out her hand.

Sara looked up at her and gripped the outstretched arm, pulling herself up as she went.

“I asked too much of him,” Sara said. Her memory was flashing back to the initial push he gave to get them flying, and then she remembered the strain on his face as he was flagging.

“He didn’t have enough power to do this, and I kept pushing him,” Sara said.

“You did what you had to do,” Isabelle said sternly. “To give us an opening to fight another day. We would have starved, trapped in this shield, otherwise.”

“That or be overrun,” someone interjected. It was the shock of hearing someone else that jolted Sara out of her melancholy.

Sara set her jaw in a hard line and finally released her tight grip on Isabelle’s hand. A bit reluctantly—it was nice to be supported by someone instead of the other way around.

She looked around and saw everyone waiting as if no time had passed. Everyone except one other mage. Sara was almost distracted by the fact that the shield wall was still up, as well as visible this time, but first she wanted to know where her people were.

“Reben, Linus, Isabelle, myself, the line mage, and the weather warden,” Sara said grimly. “Six mages went into that casting, and I only see four now. Where is our warden—where is Tomas?”

Linus stepped forward as Isabelle fell back.

“He told me to tell you, ‘It was an honor,’” Linus said.

Sara turned in a wide circle, looking around. Familiar faces met her gaze. Some grinning. Some hungry. Some passive. But none of them was the mysterious weather warden who had lent the power they needed mid-battle. None was Tomas.

“But where is he?” Sara asked, a bit helplessly—which was unusual for her.

Reben said, “After I came back, the five of you stayed in the trance. It was all fine until Arcnus dropped like a stone right after Tomas exploded.”

“Exploded?”

“I would call it more of a transcendence,” Karn said.

Sara stared at him.

“What?” he said. “I know big words.”

Sara shook her head. “You’re telling me he exploded or transcended. Transcended where?”

She knew that she needed to focus on more pertinent aspects of her life right now, like why, after all that work, the shield wall still hadn’t come down. But she had gone in with five other mages, sent Reben away, come back with three mages and a body, and damn it, she wanted her other body.

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