Holmberg, D K - The Endless War 03 - Endless Night by Holmberg D K

Author:Holmberg, D K [Holmberg, D K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BluA
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2016-07-18T23:00:00+00:00

The fire crackled inside the cave, giving off a steady warmth that pushed back the growing chill of the night. With the Ter cloak she wore, Ciara found herself not needing the heat of the fire, not as she once would have. The bowl of fella-leaf stew that she ate had a familiar taste, mostly leaves with only a hint of water added. She brought it to her nose and inhaled deeply.

Voices bounced softly off the cavern walls, a familiar sound. In the village, you were never really alone. Even the curtain separating her father’s space from others did not do much more than mute the sounds.

“It was Fas, wasn’t it?” she asked her father when he finally settled onto the thick shepa hide next to her. “He brought it into the village when he returned.”

“I didn’t think so,” he said. “But now? Now I don’t know, Ciara. With the darkness…”

She didn’t need her father to confirm it for her. She had seen the darkness in his eyes and the change that had come over him. But why would Fas grow weaker while the shaper grew stronger? He could shape water, so why was he not affected the same way?

“It was Fas,” she said.

“You’re probably right.” He stared blankly at the fire for a moment, as if still trying to clear the effects of Tenebeth from his mind. With a shudder, he turned away. “We haven’t seen fire… or the sun… since you left.”

“I didn’t know that mattered.”

“We know so little about what matters. Darkness is a force unlike any other.”

“Where did he come from? Why attack now?”

“I think you’re asking the wrong person, Ciara. Cheneth might know.”

Ciara didn’t think even Cheneth knew why Tenebeth attacked now. Did the elementals?

If she could ever consistently reach nobelas, she would have to ask.

“What is nobelas, Father?”

He pulled his gaze from the fire. “Nobelas?”

His tone answered the question for her. He didn’t know.

“Nothing. I thought that maybe…”

“I’m not enlightened, Ciara. Stormbringer, I’m not even one of the wise.”

“If you didn’t study in Hyaln, how is it that you know about these things?”

Her father sighed. “I didn’t grow up in the village. When I was younger, I knew a different home.”

“You said you were pushed away from your home by the attack.”

“The attack. Yes. It sent me away, and many others. A city near the border, one where we didn’t have to suffer for want of water. So different than the life we lead now. But this is peaceful in its own way.” He sighed again. “A man came to the city as it fell to Ter, searching for those with particular skills. These would save our people, he claimed. The people of Rens would be needed, if only we were willing to listen and learn and forgo the homes we knew.” His eyes went distant as he stared into the fire. “He taught me my first pattern, a way to summon power, to call the draasin. There were others, all of them taught to do the same.

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