Bound by Fire: The Cloud Warrior Saga by Holmberg D.K

Author:Holmberg, D.K.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2014-12-23T00:00:00+00:00

15

Another Voice

Tan stood outside the archives, thankful to be back in the cool air. His lungs burned from a run to the university to find one of the Masters, which Roine had requested he do. The first one he came across had been Master Ferran. At first, Tan hadn’t been certain he’d come with him, but when he mentioned Roine the Athan, his expression changed and he followed Tan to the archives.

Now Roine and Ferran searched the archives together, looking for signs of the other archivists while Tan stood outside, waiting.

The body they found was an archivist, but the younger one, the man who had been friendly to Tan. And now he was gone.

“Why are you standing here?”

Tan turned and saw Elle leaning against the building. Her arms were crossed over her chest, a stack of books clutched in them. Pale eyes gleamed as she looked at him. “Elle? What are you doing here?”

She frowned and stepped away from the wall. “Well, I came to find another book and the archivist wasn’t there.” She shrugged. “So I went back and found what I wanted.”

“Did you see anything?”

“You mean, other than the rows of books I’ll never get a chance to finish?” She shook her head. “I don’t know why the archivist didn’t stop me. That’s never happened before. They always watch when I come into the archives.”

Tan swallowed and looked away.

What would the archives have that would motivate an Incendin shaper to kill one of the guardians of the ancient books?

But leave the other archivist alive. Why would one of the archivists work with an Incendin shaper?

He sighed and shook his head. Roine wouldn’t answer him. If Tan could face the lisincend and survive—and help recover the ancient artifact—why shouldn’t he be included in whatever Roine planned?

Elle watched him, her frown deepening. “What happened in there? What happened to the archivist?”

He shook his head. “I don’t know.”

“You know something.”

Tan shook his head slightly.

“Well?”

“What do you want me to say? That one of the archivists is dead? That we can’t find any of the others? That Roine and Master Ferran are searching the archives but keep me out, afraid of what else they might find?”

Elle whistled softly. One hand rubbed behind her ear.

Before she had a chance to say anything more, Tan felt a massive buildup of pressure.

He looked around, wondering who might be shaping. Pain pulsed with the shaping in his head, pounding in his ears. He grabbed his head, biting down to push back against what he felt. Colors swam across his vision, leaving spots shimmering as if he’d stared at the sun for too long.

The pressure left, bursting away from him.

Tan sighed.

Thunder rumbled loudly, shaking the buildings around them. Faint trails of dust seeped from the archives’ stones. The ground shook and for a moment, Tan thought it might split open beneath him. Elle gasped next to him.

And then it stopped.

Tan looked around, wondering what had just happened. The power behind the shaping was unlike anything he’d felt before, even more powerful than what he’d felt when they were running from the lisincend.

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