Circle of Time (Rise of the Black Dragon Book 9) by Jada Fisher

Author:Jada Fisher [Fisher, Jada]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2020-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

8

The Start of it All

Ukrah had spent an awful lot of time in voids lately, and she knew enough about them to know she wasn’t in one now. Not really. And yet she was nowhere and with no one, completely alone. That moment wasn’t even a breath, not even enough time for her to blink, and yet it felt like a lifetime. Several lifetimes. An eternity even, stretched out beyond what her mind could comprehend and beyond what her sanity would allow.

And then, just as suddenly as it had happened, the world came rushing back in a plume of fire.

Oh.

The world was indeed an inferno, and the cracked, lifeless earth below her feet was familiar to her. There was nothing but pure, unfiltered energy biting hungrily for some sort of order around her.

What… This isn’t possible. This isn’t!

Ukrah had almost hoped that their spell might have reverted Tayir into some tiny, newborn version of himself, but no such luck. He still stood in front of them—many winged, headed, and limbed—but for the first time since she had seen his non-finch form, he looked scared.

“It is,” Eist said, slowly lowering herself to the ground in front of him. So, she had been floating? That was something for Ukrah to wonder about later, if they all survived. “You can feel it, can’t you? Exactly where we are.”

But you should be powerless here! Tayir cried, rising onto his hind legs. The usurpers are still in their realm, and the Blight is long, long removed from this world.

“That’s true. But while they’re not here, they still exist, and so does my bond to them. So, I’m drawing power from them at the height of their power.” She raised her hand and bolts of golden light shot from the ground, impaling Tayir in multiple spikes of brilliant magic. “Life’s a circle, innit?”

Tayir squealed and pushed himself up, blood spilling from his wounds as he ripped through the golden spikes. But those wounds healed before the gore grew to be too much, and even more limbs burst from his sides.

This stops nothing. I will just end you here and save you all the suffering of ever being born!

“Or you could just give up,” Eist said, Fior flying up from under her so she could settle herself on his back. In one of her arms, a golden pike appeared, made entirely of light, and in the other there was a burning, glowing sword. “This doesn’t have to be painful, you know.”

You turn my own words back on me like you are an equal, Tayir hissed before opening his many mouths and letting out a blast of that iridescent, burning light that had killed so many of their dear companions.

But unlike all the other times, instead of cutting through their shields or flesh, Eist held up her hand. All the beams bent, as if drawn to her, only to hit her arm and disappear into her limb.

The woman glowed even brighter and let out a laugh that Ukrah had never heard from the woman before.

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