Immortal Prince by Jennifer Fallon

Author:Jennifer Fallon [Fallon, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fantasy, Fiction, General, Epic, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy - Epic, Fiction - Fantasy, Science fiction and fantasy, Immortalism, Australian Novel And Short Story, Questioning, Women historians
ISBN: 9780765356079
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2009-06-01T23:00:00+00:00

I looked at him in confusion. "Plans for what?"

"For what you intend to do with the rest of this long life you've been granted after you've brought the Tide to your people, or whatever nonsense Engarhod was spouting the other day. Eternity is a very long time, Cayal. Your worst enemy is no longer a flesh and blood entity. It's boredom."

"I haven't really thought about it." That was the Tide's own truth. I was still rejoicing in the knowledge that I was heading home. The wider implications of immortality beyond that hadn't even occurred to me.

"Then consider this," Lukys suggested. "There are nearly a score of other immortals out there, my lad, and most of them are already starting to get restless. It's going to lead to trouble, you mark my words, and given that some of them have the power to manipulate the elements on a rather impressive scale, it could get rather nasty, too."

"I'm not sure I follow you."

Lukys turned to the waterfall and raised his arm. A moment later silence descended over the gardens as the waterfall abruptly stopped. Crystal beads of water hung in midair, waiting for permission to continue on their way. I could feel Lukys warping the Tide around the drops of water like something crawling on my skin; could feel the strain as his control over the elements warred with the natural inclination of all liquids to settle on the lowest possible surface.

"The water is resisting you," I remarked without thinking.

He seemed surprised. "You can feel that?"

I nodded, unaware there was anything unusual in it. After all, I'd just been made immortal. Nothing seemed impossible after that.

He dropped his arm and the waterfall resumed its interrupted tumble down the rocks to the lake below, the air once again filled with the cooling spray and the ever-present sound of rushing water. Lukys studied me thoughtfully, but said nothing.

His silence worried me. "Can all immortals do things like that?"

"Surprisingly few of them, actually. Have you mentioned this to anyone else?"

"Mentioned what?" I asked.

"That you can sense the Tide? Feel others manipulating it?"

I shook my head. "Is that a bad thing?"

Suddenly, Lukys smiled. "I'd not mention it to anyone around here until you're certain, lad. And worked out how to deal with it. Such ability is bound to be considered… threatening… to those who lack the same sort of power. You may have noticed the emperor and his clan aren't exactly endowed with an over-abundance of magical ability, just an endless desire for power and conspicuous wealth."

"You speak so disparagingly of Engarhod, yet Diala tells me you two were once friends." I turned and leant against the balustrade. "She told me you and Engarhod discovered the Eternal Flame and brought it back here to Magreth."

"That's true enough, I suppose," he agreed, "if you strip the story down to its bare bones. But we certainly weren't friends. Far from it, in fact. I Wasn't even a fisherman by trade. I was an astrologer who wanted nothing more

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