Fallen Star by Ivan Kal

Author:Ivan Kal [Kal, Ivan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-08T22:00:00+00:00

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Khalio looked down on the sleeping mortal. She was lying down on a slab of stone, with the spirit artist’s body next to her, and he couldn’t wait to start. He needed see how a soul connected to the body of a spirit artist in order to figure out what he needed to do in order to copy the technique. He had already learned as much as he could by studying the body itself, and there was little he could see without diving deeper and that required more power and expertise. The truth was that he wanted to see how a soul that didn’t follow the Path of the spirit artists reacted when it was put inside a body more advanced. He didn’t want to craft a body for himself only to have his soul reject it—or worse, have the body damage his soul.

Khalio knew that the Path that these spirit artist followed was the same as what his Mother had done. She was only far more along this Path. He remembered the power she demonstrated at the end.

He could’ve put any random soul inside the body and then monitored it closely, but that would’ve been no fun. Why do that when he could meddle with his brother’s plans some more? Khalio had been foiling and subverting Sao Ban’s attempts to guide events for a while now, and he couldn’t wait for the moment when Sao Ban realized that it wasn’t his own ineptitude that had caused it, but rather Khalio himself. Turning and using a key piece of Sao Ban’s plans brought him great joy.

And in the end he hadn’t lied to Ashara. He did want to unite the worlds, to recreate what was lost long ago. If there was one thing that he regretted it was that his actions contributed to the Sundering. But he would make it all right.

Khalio concentrated on what he wanted to do. Taking a soul out of a body wasn’t really hard for him; Mother had taught them all how to master their own souls, and leaving a body was required for that. She only failed to teach them how to strengthen them, how to gain more power. Even now, after she had been dead for so long, he still felt rage at that. She had kept them all weak, all so that she could rule over them, afraid that they would eclipse her.

He shook his head and banished those thoughts. He had to concentrate. He reached down and took Ashara’s soul out of its vessel, his anima enveloping her true self in it. He made care to keep the section of the soul that governed memories intact, as he didn’t want her to lose herself. Souls couldn’t form new memories outside of their bodies—they required flesh for that. Once a memory was imprinted in the brain, it was slowly etched onto a soul. It was why the gods rarely left their vessels for long, as it made it hard

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