Dark Sun: Chronicles of Athas, Book 02 - The Darkness Before the Dawn by Ryan Hughes

Author:Ryan Hughes [Hughes, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7869-0104-3
Publisher: Fanversion Publishing
Published: 2017-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Seven

The silence in the great room was thick enough to slice into wedges. Jedra looked at Kayan, and she looked at him, but neither of them wanted to start the accusations they both knew were coming. A gust of wind rattled one of the skylights, and Jedra reached up telekinetically through the roof and rearranged the rocks holding the glass shell in place, the motion dislodging a pinch of grit that pattered on the cushion between him and Kayan.

She seemed to know what he was doing even though he hadn’t looked up. “Yes, show off, why don’t you,” she said.

He shook his head. “I was trying to save the skylight.”

“Like you were trying to mindlink with a crystal?”

“Yes! Yes, I was. Here, see for yourself.” He nearly levitated one of the crystals from the bedroom, but then he thought better of that and got up to get it himself. Both of them were right where he’d dropped them on the cushion; he picked up one and brought it back out to the great room.

“See?” he said, holding it out to Kayan. “There’s something strange about this. I can sense some kind of energy in it, almost as if it’s alive. I was trying to mindlink with it when you got mad at me.”

She hardly looked at the crystal. “So it’s my fault, is that what you’re saying?”

“What?” Jedra sat down across from her again.

“You were just minding your own business when I blew up at you. So it’s my fault that we fought, and that Kitarak left. That’s what you think, isn’t it?”

Jedra looked down at the crystal. “Well, I was trying to mind my own business, but I guess I was probably thinking about you, too, so that’s why I accidentally mindlinked with you instead.”

“Accidentally. Hah. Never mind that you came into the library looking for some mental action, and when I was busy you accused me of slumming, or that—”

“You’re the one who called me a warren rat.”

“I did not.”

“You did, too. You said ‘your kind of people’ like we were some kind of filth on the bottom of your sandals.”

Kayan stared at him, her nostrils flaring with each breath. Without a word, she stood up and went into the bedroom, emerged with her knapsack, and went into the kitchen.

“What are you doing?” Jedra asked, following her to the kitchen door.

She had gone into the pantry and was stuffing vegetables and dried meat into her pack.

“What does it look like I’m doing?” she asked. “I’m leaving.”

“What makes you think Kitarak will take you with him?”

She looked up at Jedra as if he’d just spoken a foreign language. “Who said anything about Kitarak? I’m leaving by myself. The two of you can do whatever you want when I’m gone. Rearrange the furniture with your stupid telekinesis—I don’t care.”

Even without the mindlink, Jedra could tell she meant it. She really intended to strike out on her own.

“Uh, Kayan,” he said. “I don’t think that’s such a good idea. We had a hard enough time crossing the desert together.

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