Dominion (Honor Bound Book 3) by Jon Kiln

Author:Jon Kiln [Kiln, Jon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-02-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9: What Blindspots Reveal

The darkest paths were the heaviest and pulled on Berengar’s free mind as it drifted through the vision. He had no way of knowing if this was the case with everyone that touched the Eye, but in his case, the thickest paths with the greatest gravity were shrouded in shadow.

He saw himself aboard a ship trying to rescue Belsh. He turned to see where he was and when he was, but ended up staring down a branch of a path where he stood over the boy’s body with a bolt in his skull.

He turned away entirely.

The Captain found himself in a desert, but he was traveling in a caravan with no one he knew. The landscape looked familiar. He had visited few arid lands, so he could not imagine where he thought he knew it from. The feet of the strangers in the vision with him sped up to impossible rates leaving dark tracks across the wasteland. They split off ahead of him in multiple versions of themselves. Along most of the branches, he saw blood in the sand.

Berengar turned away again.

He tried to find his way back to the valley and back into the high temple to return to his own body. He could feel the smooth surface of the corner of the Eye gripped in one fist and the stone top to the pedestal in the other hand. He felt his toes move inside his boots on the chamber floor, but he could not seem to force himself back into that moment.

As he circled back, he found himself lost along another path that led to the capital. He tried to find the King, but there was a dark spot over the palace that prevented him from seeing.

“Is the King dead?” Berengar’s words echoed back to him from a thousand voices that were all his. In some, he was screaming the words in rage and sorrow. In others, he spoke them quietly. In a few, he actually sounded pleased.

He looked for Arianne and his grandson in their apartment, but he kept getting lost as the configurations of the streets kept shifting into shapes he did not recognize. In some places, he found himself wading through ankle deep blood with swords clashing around him. In others, he was covered in flowers and laurels and the citizens cheered on all sides as he passed.

He had more and more trouble seeing as he found himself along a path shaded from the sun and growing darker. The path felt thin under his feet and ready to snap, but the farther he traveled along it, the thicker it grew. Soon, he could not seem to pull himself free at all.

He found the palace finally. It was still very dark, but not blind to him along this path. He stared at his own lined face with the crown upon his head.

“This is not meant to be,” Berengar whispered.

The weary face of King Berengar raised his eyes to stare directly at Captain Berengar invading his throne room.

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