Ley Lines by Lisa Lowell

Author:Lisa Lowell [Lowell, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Creativia
Published: 2017-09-30T22:00:00+00:00

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In the middle of the night she felt a gentle nudge and at first Gailin thought Vamilion must be getting back to her about the map. But there were no words coming with the awakening. Drake's hand was in its customary place, and while he was practically draped all across her, he was also sound asleep so he could not be the source of the prompting. The sky above her remained pitch black, but the mist across the grasses spoke of dawn approaching and perhaps the first sign that fall would descend soon. The fog seemed to dance, calling to her to walk.

Greatly daring, Gailin wriggled out from under Drake's hand and set it gently on the imprint of where she'd been laying and stood up. Once on her feet the starlight lit the mist for her, showing her the way down a shallow gully north of their camp and she knew she must follow the path. It felt like one of those compulsions Vamilion had left with the book. However, she had left the book behind in the camp, knowing Drake would find nothing in it of worth to him; just drawings of herbs and anatomy. She could have resisted this prompting to follow the mist but now was a perfect time so she waded into the grasses, guided by a fog bank.

Once in the gully the mist had gathered so thickly that she could not see the night above her head and she might be on another planet for all she could make out in the murk. The prompting nudged her down the path of the dry wash that probably had been cut only by summer thunderstorms. No stones tripped her but a few sparse, desperate attempts at trees pushed out of the ground, hardly more than bushes and she had to weave her way through them before she reached where the mist prompted her to go.

Then she saw a light within the fog. It didn't seem to have any one source but appeared as if the mist itself began to glow just a bit farther down the path. She approached cautiously, suspicious of a trick, but the clarity of the light and ease of the compulsion reassured her. She wasn't being driven against her will. The glowing grew so intense she felt blinded and didn't dare step closer until she studied out the situation. She stopped and considered all she had learned about magic. The light and the prompting meant she should be here, but she found herself blocked until she understood what the magic demanded of her.

She thought of the veil over the well of souls in her dream, how it stretched and yet had resisted breaking until she pierced through the material, yet it had all been metaphorical. This veil of nothingness required her to break through with magic of her own. Perhaps this brightness was much the same and she needed to break through. Without hesitation Gailin conjured a scalpel and reached forward, cutting the light with a swift stroke.

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