Child of Blackwen (An Artemis Ravenwing Novel Book 1) by Melanie Rodriguez

Author:Melanie Rodriguez [Rodriguez, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-09-14T05:00:00+00:00

Jack confined himself to his study and stared at the sai. The very feel of the weapons made his skin crawl.

How was Artemis supposed to safely wield them if they couldn’t be purified? What would happen to her once she had them? He feared that even when informed of the malevolent aura of the weapons, Artemis would still choose to fight with them.

She was female after all. All women are stubborn.

He picked one of them up and grew confused as he glanced at the embedded onyx and garnet within the hilt. As far as he knew, jewels were supposed to shine, sparkle, or whatever else others would say about them. The jewels in the hilt were dull. When Jack rubbed them with a damp cloth, they were unchanged.

Tapping his temples, Jack refused to admit defeat. There was a reason the jewels were like that, and he was going to find out why…even if it took him all night.

“If Talisa were here, she’d be giving you a head-slap and berating you for missing something so obvious,” Jack grumbled, while running his hand through his long, messy dark brown hair. “Think!”

Jack tapped each jewel hard with a fingertip, and he sighed when there was no response. He wracked his brain over and over again and realized he just wasn’t going to figure it out. Feeling frustrated, he flung the sai in his hand across the room. His eyes widened when he saw the jewels flash within seconds of it landing in the wall.

“What the…?” He walked across the study to retrieve the weapon. The jewels in the hilt were still dull, but there was something different this time around; they now had a minimal shine to them. It was a subtle difference from before, and Jack knew that throwing it triggered something within the jewels.

Once he pulled the sai from the wall, he wondered what Talisa would do to him should she discover the hole. He shuddered at the possibilities.

I only threw it, Jack thought, as he stared at the sai in his grasp. “How did that…?”

It was done in anger, elf mage.

Jack froze when he heard the soft female voice in response to his question. He’d heard that voice before; it was the voice of the woman he’d seen murdered in the vision at the Grove of Kiare’s Mirror.

Jack turned around and fell hard to the ground, shocked. There was a tall woman standing before him, colored with the palette of death itself. Her deep violet eyes showed amusement as they studied him. Her long brown hair spilled over her bare shoulders and arms; the woman wore only a billowing, sleeveless, black dress with a train extending far from her bare feet.

Jack knew he was in the presence of Artemis’ mother, Tamina.

“You-you’re Tamina,” Jack managed to say as he tried hard to stand back up. “Willow be damned. Artemis really does look like you.”

Of course she does. Daughters tend to be the mirror image of their mothers, Tamina said, gliding to the table where the other sai rested.

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