Holmberg, D K - The Dark Ability 07 - Rise of the Elder by Holmberg D K

Author:Holmberg, D K [Holmberg, D K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2016-10-25T23:00:00+00:00

He dreamt.

Rsiran didn’t know where he was, but it was a place of darkness filled with spots of light. It felt as if he floated, but he was insubstantial, almost as if he Traveled. Perhaps that was what it felt like when you died. Maybe everyone Traveled in a sense, getting the chance to join with the Great Watcher.

He continued to float, noticing that the bright lights beneath him seemed to coalesce. They didn’t remind him of lorcith as they had the last time he had experienced something like this. These were too scattered for them to be lorcith, and too bright to be heartstone. What then?

Strangely—or perhaps, not strangely—he felt no pain. There was no sensation at all, just an awareness, similar to when he had nearly died by the explosion in Seval’s smithy. That time, he was certain that he was in a different place, and recognized that he moved without his body. This time was different, and he had a sense that he moved, similar to when he Traveled, but not the same. This time, it was almost as if he were substantial.

A sense of a great power flowed around him.

Rsiran tried to look around, searching for the Great Watcher. Each time he’d held the crystals, he’d had the same sense, that of the Great Watcher sitting off to the side, so close that he could practically reach him. This was no different, only, there was no crystal. Either Josun still had it and had escaped, or Galen had managed to rescue it, and would return it to the palace. If Naelm took possession of the crystal, he could get word to the guilds so they could return it to the chamber.

But they wouldn’t be able to.

Rsiran had bound the crystals in the protections granted by the Elder Trees. He’d used their power, and had sealed the crystals off. No one could access the chamber except for Rsiran. Even were Galen to get the crystal back in their hands, there wouldn’t be anything anyone could do to return it to the chamber, all because Rsiran had thought he knew best and had blocked the council from accessing the crystals. Now, none would ever have the opportunity to hold one of the great crystals. He had wanted to give others the chance, and now with his death, he will have taken it from everyone.

He continued to move, carried by some invisible wind in the darkness. As he floated, he noted additional flashes of color, but none came any closer. All seemed extremely distant, nothing more than a vague shifting in the darkness.

The sense of power didn’t change.

It didn’t come any nearer, but the power still flowed all around. Rsiran almost believed there was something familiar about it, a sense from it he had known before but not from when he had last held the crystal. This was a personal connection.

Realizing that sent a chill through him.

Could it be that he wasn’t near the Great Watcher? Could this be

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