Born in Light by Kim ten Tusscher

Author:Kim ten Tusscher [Tusscher, Kim ten]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-17T22:00:00+00:00

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”You have to go,” Almor whispered. He carefully pushed her away.

Lilith reluctantly sat up straight. She kept hold of his hand, though. She looked at Az-Zhara who had come to sit beside her. “Will you help me break the ties?”

“It’s important that you do this. Not someone else,” said Az-Zhara.

“But if I can’t do it, someone will have to finish it.” She could tell by his face that he was in two minds. “I’ll do what I can, but it would be naive to think that it’s going to be easy,” she said.

“If need be, I’ll help you,” he said solemnly.

Az-Zhara called the dragons. Lilith clutched her father’s hand, but he slowly faded away. Lilith’s surroundings changed into Jakob’s temple. She looked at the garden and the columns. “I don’t want to be here,” she growled.

Az-Zhara gave her a questioning look. To him, the meeting was taking place in a different environment, so he didn’t notice that Lilith’s remark had effect. Her surroundings started to fade until the temple disappeared. There was nothing to replace it. She found herself in a dense fog.

Ari-Hagnè materialized. She looked at Lilith. “I hadn’t expected you to do so well. It’s only your leg that’s still troubling you?”

Lilith nodded. “But I’ll learn to cope with that. I’m glad it’s the only permanent damage left from my encounter with Kasimirh.”

More dragons were forming a circle around her. Lilith glanced at Wigar-Dan. He looked at her with squinted eyes. Lilith sensed that he still wanted to fight her. He had been waiting for that moment for so long, and Kasimirh’s appearance hadn’t put an end to that desire. Nevertheless, he didn’t do anything.

Hluth-Anner stepped forward. He beckoned them all to come closer.

“Can Az-Zhara help me?” Lilith asked.

“If that’s what you want,” Hluth-Anner answered.

Az-Zhara accompanied her to the centre of the circle.

Hluth-Anner murmured something, and Lilith’s feet came off the ground. The sorcerer dragon started to swim circles around her and Az-Zhara. The other sea dragons followed one by one. They all traced a different path. They swam faster and faster until all Lilith could see were blue-green stripes. She was surrounded by the soft, monotonous singing of the sea dragons. Hluth-Anner’s voice could be heard over the others. His voice became louder and softer as he swam his circles.

Lilith felt that Hluth-Anner was trying to make her change. She looked at Az-Zhara. He gave her an encouraging nod. Lilith took a deep breath and changed. She clenched the knife that she had been given. It grew in size with her.

The one string that still tied her to Kasimirh disappeared from sight behind the barrier of the sea dragons. The broken string started to grow. It pushed against the blue-green wall of the magic bubble, but couldn’t break through to restore the connection with Kasimirh. Now and again, the bubble trembled and there was a rumbling noise.

Anger welled up inside Lilith. “Why can’t you just let me go?” she yelled full of determination. She grabbed the string that still connected her to Kasimirh.

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