Holmberg, D K - The Cloud Warrior Saga 08 -Born of Fire by Holmberg D K

Author:Holmberg, D K [Holmberg, D K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2016-05-02T00:00:00+00:00

13

A Search For Understanding

Tan sat alone in the home that had once been the previous Utu Tonah’s. No fire burned in the hearth, and he pushed away the sense of the elementals, searching for a sort of silence and solitude, wanting nothing more than a sense of emptiness around him.

He needed to understand what had brought the Utu Tonah to Par-shon. There had been something that was more than about the elementals here, though he couldn’t find it in the journal.

The journal lay open in front of him, and he had pored over it again, searching for answers and thinking that they might be found within the pages of the text that the Utu Tonah had left behind, but the only thing that he found was the detail of his desire to reach for the elementals. Not so much desire, he realized, but a need for the connection, for the power that came from it, though Tan had not been able to understand what more the Utu Tonah had wanted other than power.

Closing the book, he leaned back in the chair. There had to be something more. The Utu Tonah had chased power—that much was true and undeniable—but there was something more to it than what Tan had discovered. Why had he come here? From what Tan could tell, the Utu Tonah had already forced several bonds even before he had come to Par-shon. To Tan, that meant that he’d come seeking bonds, but possibly something else as well.

Searching the tower yielded no clear answers, not where Tan thought they would have been. When he had been trapped here in Par-shon, the Utu Tonah had occupied the tower. But that wasn’t the sense that he had now that he’d returned. The Utu Tonah might have spent some time in the tower, but it wasn’t the only place he had occupied.

That had been this home.

Would he find any answers here, or would there only be more questions?

With a sigh, he left the room and made his way down the hall. The need to understand his predecessor drove him, even thought he recognized that he might not be able to. The people of Par-shon—most of them at least—didn’t necessarily want him to remember. But Tan needed answers.

The longer he searched, the more he began to wonder if he should have left the former Utu Tonah alive. At least then Tan would have been able to question him. With the man gone, there was no way for him to know—to really know—what his goal had been.

What did the runes scattered all around the city mean? Were they tied to the reason the Utu Tonah had come or was there something else? And why were so many in a state of disrepair?

The sprawling estate was massive compared to the small home that he shared with Amia in Ethea. There were dozens of rooms, many for the staff assigned to serve them, and a massive kitchen. Tan had searched all the rooms in the estate, but so far had not found anything that would help him understand.

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