In the Service of Dragons Bundle by Robert Stanek

Author:Robert Stanek [Stanek, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Reagent Press

The vision flowed strongly; it would not fade. Vilmos felt the surge of strength within him peak beyond the limits of his mind. The power became him and he became the power. He could not control it, nor could it control him. They were two entities wrapped in turmoil in each other’s arms.

“Where will you go now, my friend? Where is it you think you can hide? There is no place to flee to; you only run from yourself.”

“But I know where I must go and what I must do.”

“Do not lie to me, for you cannot lie to yourself.”

“Still your tongue or I will invoke pain within you that will be so great your soul will cry out for death, but I will not let you pass. I will hold your spirit at bay until the pain grows within you to such an intensity that your spirit will wish itself from existence.”

“You most of all should know true death, but lest you not forget its curse, I will welcome the day I return to walk through the halls of your memories, as I already have and will throughout eternity.”

“Then it is you, old friend.”

“Of course it is I, who else could it be?”

“But you are dead.”

“So are you; we are both long since passed.”

“Yes! Last time we met, I defeated you.”

“No, we destroyed each other.”

“Correction! I destroyed you both!”

“I do not understand; why, then, am I here?”

“Yes, why?”

“I have brought you back to learn from. I need your knowledge, and I will have it.”

“Do you think you can order us, as if we were children? Each of us has the power to utterly destroy you at will and yet you talk to us as if we were token pawns.”

“You are quite right. You are token pawns, the fools on the board, and I am your master.”

Vilmos received a crushing blow to the head; excruciating pain filled every fiber of his being. He cried out into the darkness of the night. He searched within his mind striving to force the vision away. The two would not go; they could not go. The third spoke in a voice that caused Vilmos’ mind to recoil. The image of the last began to clear, and though it was a shadow of himself, Vilmos failed to recognize it. He could not, for he did not want to.

Vilmos watched as the three began to circle each other methodically, each assessing the other. The two old friends smiled cynically at the third. They knew what they must do, and so they did it. Wildly, they attacked each other, creating a vortex of swirling energies.

“Go away!” cried out a small voice, “Go away now!”

The thoughts would not go. They demanded to be heard and recognized. They demanded to be alive. Vilmos clasped his ears and pounded his head into the ground, until the wetness of blood dripping down his face soaked the ground about him. The pain within him was replaced by the pain from without; only then at the moment of unconsciousness did the voices fade from his thoughts.

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