Death and Eternity: A Zyan Star Series (The Quinn Chronicles Book 3) by A.A. Chamberlynn

Author:A.A. Chamberlynn [Chamberlynn, A.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-05T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

It takes us hours to get back out of the Endless Sands. And then another hour before the sky dims toward night, streaked with plum and lavender and persimmon. It only serves to remind me of a painter’s canvas, and the task ahead.

As the day fades into night and stars begin to float past us, I’m still not any closer to figuring out how to find the rifts. I can’t think of a spell to seek them like we’d used for the paint. That had taken hours in just one area—a huge area for sure. But nothing compared to this entire world.

“You need to sleep,” Aeden says when I groan for the millionth time. “We used a lot of magic earlier finding the paint. You’re running on empty.”

He leans over and kisses me, which earns a sharp look from E. “Please, my lady.”

“Well, I can hardly decline when you say it like that.”

I slump down against the side of the ship, making sure the satchel doesn’t tip sideways. I barely remember closing my eyes before sleep claims me. A strange dream takes over my unconscious mind.

In the dream I’m sleeping in a cave of white stone filled with glowing candles and huge chunks of amethyst and turquoise that grow out of the walls and inhale and exhale like lungs. Someone shakes my shoulder.

“Wake up, you’re dreaming.”

I look up at the Pegasus. It doesn’t look like the Pegasus, but I know it is. Rather, the Pegasus in human form. A beautiful girl with black skin and black hair and piercing ice blue eyes. She is thin and nimble like a ballet dancer, and gestures for me to get up. I stand, leaving my sleeping body on the floor of the cave.

“Come this way,” the Pegasus girl says.

She traipses deeper into the cave, moving lightly on her toes. I follow her. I can’t see my body, or maybe I don’t have a body in this place, but it doesn’t matter. We move very quickly, though it doesn’t feel like we’re running, and suddenly we’re standing at the top of a deep hole. A candlelit tunnel descends around the perimeter of the hole in a spiral. I can see down, down, down, my eyes following the glowing spiral to the depths of the earth. We follow the path.

And then we arrive at the bottom, quite abruptly, and enter a huge room. It is the same white rock as before, but the ceiling is much higher, and stalactites hang above us. A sea of candles lights the room. Alcoves in the corners reveal glimpses of more crystals, but these crystals are black, like obsidian.

In the very center of the room is a familiar red chair.

Death’s chair. But she’s not sitting in it.

The Pegasus girl turns to me. “You understand what you must do now, yes?”

And I wake up.

Cool night air whooshes past my cheek and several blood moons hang heavy in the sky above. Aeden is sleeping next to me, his lungs moving softly in and out.

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