Dragon's Egg (Dark Streets Book 2) by BR Kingsolver

Author:BR Kingsolver [Kingsolver, BR]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

I blinked, staring stupidly at the world around me, and especially at the cage.

“How did you do that?” I asked.

“I’m a realm walker, remember?” Cassiel responded.

Yeah, but. “The cage. How did you move the cage? I’ve been around realm walkers. Moving inanimate objects is different.” Then it hit me. He had opened a rift. My drool-worthy Nephilim was no ordinary realm walker. He might have been a bit deficient in swordsmanship and slow with his lightning attacks… Lightning? From his hands? I needed to stop judging his magic by Elven standards. He was only half Elf.

Three different types of mages traveled between the realms. First, and most common, were the realm walkers—mages whose magic could part the veils. Portal mages could not only realm walk but also command the great portals. A whole army could travel from one realm to another through a portal. Then there were those they called Traders. They couldn’t open the portals, but they could haul large items through the veils. They were mostly responsible for all the larger items one saw in the magic markets.

“Do you know where we are?” he asked.

“Somewhere northeast of Prague,” I said, taking my phone out of my pocket and calling Selinger. A quick look around showed that we were well away from the city out in farm country. We stood in the middle of a recently-harvested grain field. I talked to the Icelandic mage and gave him an estimate of where we were. I didn’t doubt he could find me using the same method I’d used to find Valinir. If Erinir and Altinir had me under their roof and didn’t contrive a way to track me, I would seriously doubt their competence.

Although there was an unusual number of airplanes and helicopters in the sky, I didn’t see any smoke plumes or magical displays. We had been gone for two days, so perhaps the battle was over.

A car showed up about an hour later. Selinger and three other mages got out and walked across the field toward us.

“What have we here?” Selinger asked, as he walked around the cage. “Have any of them been awake?”

“No,” Cassiel answered, “but I can tell that they’re breathing. At least one of them is injured.” He pointed to a man with a bandage around his thigh.

“I assume it’s Dralf magic,” I said. “I saw the man I think is Mondranar at the place where we found the cage.”

Selinger nodded. He and the other three mages arranged themselves at the cardinal points surrounding the cage. After a few moments, he started to chant an incantation while sketching a rune in the air. When he finished, the next mage chanted and sketched a different rune. That continued with the other two mages.

All of them raised their hands in the air, and the runes floated from them to converge over the cage, where the runes merged. All four spoke the same Word. A flash of light turned into a waterfall of light running down over the cage.

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