Ciarrah's Light by Lou Hoffmann

Author:Lou Hoffmann [Hoffmann, Lou]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult
ISBN: 978-1-64080-596-5
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2018-10-16T05:00:00+00:00

AS SILENCE took deep root in the Night House, Lucky’s thoughts fell still.

Then, for the first time ever, he experienced what Thurlock had tried time and again to help him find—pure intention. Without concentration or instruction, plea or wish or words at all, magic moved from within him to the world outside his mind.

Ciarrah responded instantly with a low hum. She was attached by his sandal straps to the outside of his right leg, and in the corner of his right eye he began to see her faint violet glow. Next, energy started to flow from Ciarrah up the right side of his body like a slow current until it reached the center of his chest, where the Key of Behliseth hung on its chain. The Key began to hum, adding a new pitch to Ciarrah’s, the two together so low in volume as to be nearly, but not quite, inaudible. The Key’s glow was golden, as usual, and it hovered at the bottom of Lucky’s field of vision Where the two lights met—Ciarrah’s violet and the Key’s gold, they made a band of pure white, it’s edges shimmering palest pink and soft green.

Thurlock had taken the blanket from the tall, slender form, and he blanched upon seeing the strange body lying there. “It’s as I thought. This is the type of… being I saw in that other world, moving and working among the children without any evident compassion. Ethran children, Earthborn children—not their own kind. Of all the things that Behl has ever seen fit to show me, that was by far the hardest to bear.”

Lucky, directed by something inside which simply knew what to do, moved to the slab with the other unknown being, sat beside its still form on the slab, and folded back the blanket. He felt, rather than saw or heard, Thurlock’s and Han’s gasps of surprise—or more likely shock. Lucky understood the reaction, for the being lying before him was not only a strangely misshapen memory of a humanoid form, it almost couldn’t be seen. That is, the solid form seemed to be there one instant and not the next, and from moment to moment the shape seemed to shift. Near the apex, what Lucky perceived to be the creature’s head seemed at times to hold the vestiges of a chubby-cheeked face much like a newborn infant’s, but this was no child. Again, Lucky knew that, and didn’t question how.

In the back of his mind, Lucky kept track of the other three people in the room as he reached out to put his hands, as much as he could, on the creature’s temples. Olana sat in her trance, just as she had before their shared instant. Han and Thurlock both stepped closer to him as if to stop him, but they weren’t fast enough, and Lucky made contact. The flesh he held seemed at first no more solid to the touch than it had looked, but as the light of Lucky’s magic—focused through the

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