Dragon Assassin 11: The Golden Spear by Arthur Slade

Author:Arthur Slade [Slade, Arthur]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dava Enterprises
Published: 2022-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

A Voice in the Head

First there was the sensation that the table was gone. Brax was gone. Banvix. The room. Everything had vanished in less than a heartbeat. And the warm feeling that followed was one of traveling. I tried to open my eyelids, but they wouldn't obey me.

Then the movement stopped. There was the sensation of water surrounding me. I tightened my hand around the toy figurine. Soon a sudden warmth and calmness washed over me, the feeling that all was right in the world. That warmth spread from my head to my toes, the water washing out the terrible memories, and any toxins I had consumed—and training as an assassin meant I'd consumed hundreds. I wondered fleetingly if that meant I no longer had an immunity to poison. But even that worried thought swirled away.

At the center of the warmth was my beating heart. The water soothed every ache in my joints. The soreness in my muscles and even the tightness of the scars over my left eye that Corwin had given me.

And, in time, the water worked on the cruel words he had said. Those words that had stuck into me like barbs were removed one by one. Again, I wondered if I was going to be losing those memories. Or was I just losing the pain caused by those memories?

The water continued to wash over me. And with it, I knew, time was passing. The relentless, gentle current began tugging at my memories, smoothing over the loss of my parents, whom I had never known. But at one point they had held me in their arms and now I felt as if they were here, their arms around me. Holding me tight.

Soon came the memory of Maestru Alesius dying. That was a time I didn’t like to think about. But the stream smoothed the sharp edges like it was smoothing a stone. And now all those pains were weights removed from my chest. I was growing lighter, but not floating up.

I felt Brax’s stone doll in my hand. And now I sensed him near to me and felt a forgiveness emanating toward me for the pain I had caused him when I took his eye. I had made a painful bargain for that eye in desperation. I needed his forgiveness.

And my thoughts, moving as if caught in amber, turned to Thord, who had always been so kind to me in a class full of assassins. Thord, who had died and had a bear's heart placed in his chest. A true friend. A companion. Someone I loved, deeply.

And he was missing. The stream couldn’t wash away that sharp fact. He was lost somewhere in these many worlds. Perhaps dead. I felt that sense of connection to him. It was trust. That’s what it was. A complete trust. For he, like Brax, was always on my side. This truth connected me to him. In this river, somewhere between worlds, if I thought hard enough, I could reach out in his direction.

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