In the Fade: A New Adult Fantasy with Romance (Magic Fade Book 1) by C. M. Martens

Author:C. M. Martens [Martens, C. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stealing Shade
Published: 2023-06-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

The darkness gave way to light. Colors in spectrums her human eye never imagined swirled and danced like living things.

She smiled, heart full of joy at the sight. Whatever discomfort she’d felt, whatever stress had weighed her down, fell away, erased from her mind as if it never was.

Music so complex, so beautiful, it brought tears to her eyes, launched her to her feet. She danced, swaying with the light as she moved with the sounds.

The music was language. Language she’d once recognized. Its familiarity was too strong for it to not be true. Her momentary separation from it didn’t matter now that she remembered.

The music swelled with layers of intricacy to create more fantastic gradients of harmony that balanced on each previous wave.

A change came. So subtle she didn’t understand. The beauty of the language reverberated, amplifying in bracing peaks until music succumbed to noise.

She dropped to her knees. Threw hands over her ears.

There was a message in the madness too disorienting to understand. She focused, cursing her weak form, too frail to interpret the information.

With a splintering wrench, the colored light burnt white before snapping to nothing.

Darkness sucked at her, pulled her through a void dense and bottomless…

She woke bathed in clean white moonlight, chest heaving. Gazing towards the window with an inward stare, Maslyn willed herself back to the music of the dream. If she had just one more moment with the message, she knew she could figure it out.

But it was gone. Left was only the bare notion that there was something she had to do. And the fear of that sucking darkness…

It was the message she focused on. That lingering memory compelled her to act. The magics she’d once attuned with had called out. Their communication, whatever it meant, was nothing short of terrifying. Of that, she was sure. Just like she was sure this was more than a dream.

She didn’t remember walking to the window, but there she stood, staring at the sky bathed in enough light to blot out all but the brightest stars. A light that pierced the fog of the last few weeks.

She’d wasted so much time. Missed class, missed meals, and avoided everyone. As shame washed over her, Dash’s voice rose in her mind: Show them you’re better. Show them your strength.

Dash told her this every time they disappointed Amahan. Every time frustration and exhaustion bore down on her, her friend was there, rallying her to try again. It was what he would say now. He would have said it before she ever dug herself so deep a hole.

She took a lung-filling breath and promised, “Let’s show them all we’re better.”

Padding across the chilled floor barefoot, she donned a training suit of wide-legged pants and a loose tunic. Strapping daggers to her waist, practice sword to her back, and her lucky stones to her belt, Maslyn shut herself into the hall with quiet movements. There was no better time than now to set herself up for success.

In the quiet of pre-dawn, she moved through her forms, renewed motivation washing away signs of too-little sleep.

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