Bound (The Guardians) by M.J. Stevens

Author:M.J. Stevens [Stevens, M.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sci-fi, young adult, adventure, Fiction
Published: 2014-01-20T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

I’m unbelievably scratchy. I’m wearing a grey body suit made of a rubber-like material. It’s too tight around everywhere, including my private area when I sit.

Uncomfortably, I gaze around the room. I’m in the third pillar of the Tower, my first time in this place. This pillar is different in design to the other two. When I was escorted through the doors connected to the left side of the foyer in the main tower, I faced a large room with different sections dedicated to training. It takes up almost the entire space.

I sit and wait for Elentia. The grey plastic chair I’m perched on creaks under my bottom.

My seat is on the lowest level of a large grandstand, ascending up the wall, behind me.

The indoor facility is rather large with a ceiling that reaches to the top of the pillar. I can see the sky and clouds drifting above me. The floors are padded with dark red safety mats. I sit wondering if they’re red because so much blood gets spilt during training, it was easier and cheaper to colour match. I hope not.

Elentia walks over and stands before me. She’s dressed in a training outfit, t-shirt and calf length sweat pants, but still manages to wear a pair of short heeled boots to complete her sporty look. I can’t believe she is the one doing the training. I can’t figure out if her job actually means being highly versatile or she’s super nosey and pushes to be involved in everything.

Elentia moves her electronic clipboard before me. She’s never without it, even when in training. She once again uses it to project a hologram into the air above me. But this time it’s not a schedule. It’s a perfect, and slowly turning, hologram of Leo’s necklace. I recognise it instantly.

‘By now I am sure you have seen this necklace,’ Elentia says. ‘I am also positive you have read the Livolism books I gave you concerning the very first Guardian. He set free a deity who was waiting in the Tower for “the pure one”. That person was bestowed with great powers. Most people know that story. What they may not know is that the power the text speaks of is real. It comes from everlasting elemental powers that emanate from the Guardian’s Stones.’ Elentia flicks up another picture. It’s of several different shaped chunky and brightly coloured gems.

‘This is what they looked like originally, or so we assume from dated records. Over time, each chunky stone was carved down to make a collection of simplistic and easy-to-use jewellery items for the continuing generations of Guardians. There are currently twenty stone items in existence. They are stored safely below the Tower in the world’s securest safe. When a Successor child turns ten, he or she is given an item suited to their personality. When they die, they are returned to the vault. The same privilege is extended to brides, for as long as they are in service to the Tower. But, before I get to that, let me elaborate using Leo as an example.

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