Lightblade: A Progression Fantasy Epic by Zamil Akhtar

Author:Zamil Akhtar [Akhtar, Zamil]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eight Point Press
Published: 2022-06-01T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

We went into a nearby tenement. The inside was empty: gray walls devoid of texture, cold gray tile floors — no adornments of any kind. The rooms were just hollow shells. Why had the ancient architects of this city designed such an elaborate outside, yet neglected the interiors entirely? Who could’ve ever lived in a place like this?

It reminded me of the unfinished version of Harska I saw with Zauri in my dream. But that Harska had updated itself, somehow, over the span of days. This city had supposedly been stuck in time for twenty thousand years.

We climbed a stairwell to the highest floor. Just like the others, it was bare, unfinished, sterile.

Weakness made my limbs heavy while numbness made me floaty, but thanks to the violet light Saina had soothed me with earlier, I was free of pain. Physical pain, at least.

Inside, I felt as if my soul were bobbing on a high tide. One fight against one man had consumed my all, and yet I still lost. I lost. If it weren’t for the dragon stopping time, I’d be a corpse. What about the two armies out in the streets? Would I have to fight them all?

It was hopeless, wasn’t it? I’d never get my dream stone back. I’d never see Zauri again.

I wasn’t strong enough.

“Sit here,” Saina said, snapping me from my thoughts. She pointed to a spot against the wall. “Let’s get you better.”

I dropped down against the wall.

“Shimmy forward a bit so I can get behind you.”

I slid forward against the cold stone. Saina unzipped the front of my black suit. She pulled out my combat stone. My arms shuddered from the jolt.

“You still have the healing stone I gave you?”

I nodded. I took it out from my utility pocket and handed it to her. Saina rubbed the violet crystal against her shirt, then stuck it inside my chest slot. My muscles tightened from yet another jolt.

She got behind me and knelt. “There’s not a whole lot of violet in the air, right now. The sun’s obscured. Not ideal conditions at all, so it’ll take a little while.”

I nodded.

“You look like you’re in shock. That’s fine. After what we just went through, I am, too.”

She put a warm hand on my nape. Violet light flowed like cool syrup into my bloodied, carved-up shoulder.

“Your hand’s burned.” She took my fleshy, seared hand. “I just grew you a new one, too. No matter. It’s only skin deep — we’ll heal it.”

Meanwhile, Kaur was looking out the window at the far side of the big, open floor. Good. I didn’t want her to hear.

“Saina… can I ask you something?”

“Sure.”

“Did you actually fight a dragon?”

She shook her head. “That vision you saw wasn’t me. During my life, my frequency got intertwined with a lot of people. People from the Exile. What you saw was more like an echo.”

Intertwined… that was better than sex, according to Kaur.

“You’ve gone a bit flush,” Saina said. “Was it something I said?”

“What does

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