Forbidden Magic by Ferrier Barbara

Author:Ferrier, Barbara
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2022-08-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter seventeen

“If I may, I’d like us to go to the steeple room. Would you transport us there?” Manni said. Rendon nodded and raised his crystal once again. He led them to the conference room at the top of the steeple that Kai had visited earlier. “Thank you.” Manni said.

“Follow me. Kai needs to give a presentation and I want to include a few more people.” Manni headed to Kelne’s office overlooking the sea. When he arrived, he introduced the four 15-year-old apprentices in training to Kelne.

“I’ve heard your story,” Kelne said to Kai. He bowed and nodded.

“Yes,” Kai acknowledged.

“Kelne,” Manni said, I am here to request that Kai present images of his life in the Wizandor Village. Kai, are you familiar with how you can project your vision of life on the screen for us?”

“No,” he said.

“What you will do is to picture your home and the courtyard there. See it in detail as if you are walking across the square or watching someone do something specific before your eyes. As you hold this crystal, it will allow those images to appear on the wall before us,” Manni instructed. Kai nodded uncertainly.

“Okay,” Kai said. “I’ll try.” He closed his eyes and held the crystal in his hands. Then he visualized the entrance to the Wizandor Village and showed them to the main square. People walked around with leather bags, dressed in formal robes for work. Then he showed his home and his sister, Asa. He immediately felt his eyes moisten and concentrated harder.

“We maintain the square in the morning,” he began. “We wash it clean each day. Then we go to school and learn about the importance of the King and any new rules he wants us to follow. We also learn math and reading ... But I’m here so you understand how crazy things have gotten. I’ll show you.”

He then replayed the argument outside his bedroom window, the two gruff men who were dressed in uniforms saying, “Those Moon People. We’ll have none of that. King Okid’s writing an order to test everyone, take them all to the Blue Montis bed in the Bog.” They heard the order as if it was over a loudspeaker in the room, including the man’s animal-sounding growl. “He says we’ve got to get them all.”

“But why?” Manni said.

“Because they have a conscience, I think. That’s what my grandma said. I think she’s right. King Okid’s rules were being protested by the wizards and shamans a while back, but I don’t know the details. I heard they wanted to take all the Crystal Pillars between the Divide and the Gabriella Passage.” Manni gasped. “My uncle works there, at the Bog workhouse. It’s complicated, all about King Okid making Kalendra modern, whatever that’s supposed to mean. I think it means selling the energy crystals into other realms and having all the people work for him and forget their independence. It’s a different set of rules than wizards would allow if they were in charge. The problem is that they’re not.

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