CRYSTALLUM (The Primordial Principles Book 1) by McMann Laney

Author:McMann, Laney [McMann, Laney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Booktrope Editions
Published: 2015-10-24T16:00:00+00:00

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Danny sprawled out on Cole's perfectly made bed, or what used to be his perfectly made bed. It took Cole less than a second to realize what Danny was reading.

"Are you particularly interested in the life an…Anamolia leads? Or were you just continuing to please your dad with all this reading material?" Danny closed the book in his hand and tossed it at his feet. "What's up?"

"I see you've made yourself right at home." Cole lugged his backpack off his shoulder and set it near his desk by the window. "Just doing some research on the crystal. Thought you'd be happy about that." He kicked his shoes off.

"As long as that's the real reason you're reading all of this,” he picked up another book at random, "material about...amalgamations, I'm ecstatic about it. I'm just not convinced it's the sole reason. And we have a mine to investigate."

"I'm aware." Cole tracked to his bathroom. "And you're never convinced of anything I do, but since the Warden took me off the investigation, I thought I should do my own digging." Closing the door, he turned on the faucet. Allowing the water to run cold, he splashed his face, streams of water trickling off his chin. Ebony and gold feathers cut through the flesh of his golden, human skin. A strong, sharp beak followed, and wide, coal black eyes stared back at Cole from the mirror.

"You fall into the toilet?" Danny yelled. "Or are you hoping I'll leave so you don't have to drive to Denver? We could run. If you want. It's risky, but if that's the only way you'll stop complaining about going to another mine, then we can do that."

Cole shut the water off and the bathroom door swung open.

Danny glanced over with a yawn. "You want to fly?" He groaned. "You know I hate transforming into the hawk. I'd rather run. I won't even complain when you beat my time again."

"Notice anything?" Cole's tone was flat.

Danny shrugged, Cole's voice chiming in his head the same it always did when they transformed into their avian selves. "Besides the fact that you like to taunt everyone with the fact that your true form is better than everyone else's? Not really. Was there something you wanted to confess to me as the falcon that you couldn't say in your human skin, or...?"

"Dan—" Cole glanced at his feet.

"You look like you always do. Arrogant."

“Danny." Cole raised his voice.

"Although, you'd say, bad ass. Same difference."

"Dan."

"What?"

"Look at me!” Cole motioned at his legs.

Danny's mouth opened, and his gaze tracked from the falcon's head down to Cole's bare feet and back up. "What...where are your wings? And your...where's the rest of you?"

Cole held up his right hand, red lines snaking around his wrist and over his palm.

"What the hell?"

"It was a fusionem crystal," Cole said. "The one we found. It can create amalgamations. Cross-breeds. I accidentally used it when Kadence fell in the snow when we couldn't find hers. I thought I was using my own." Cole let out a sigh.

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