Oblivion's Queen by M. H. Johnson

Author:M. H. Johnson [Johnson, M. H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-15T22:00:00+00:00

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Jess dreamt strange dreams, then. A young girl, leading her friends through dark caverns, searching in vain for the telltale signs of daylight, two of the boys crying that they would never get home, so alike they were, near identical, for all that they were father and son. Her brother Malek grinned. “We can always fight in the Shadows, sister. No need to muck about in the day.”

The young girl Jess knew to be Josie pouted at that. “We're not all built like you and Jess, Malek. Some of us are fragile souls, even if you two are something else entirely.”

Jess sighed and nodded, well aware of just how delicate her friends were.

“It's because they pulled us where we didn't belong,” Raphael nodded, his father smiling his agreement. Jess had the curious urge to rub their tousled curls, so adorable they looked as little boys.

“But wasn't it exciting, guys?” Malek enthused, “we got to Delve in places dark and terrible, find monsters in the guise of people and slay them!”

Josie sighed. “You enjoy hunting and killing, Malek, for you are like the wolf, eternally hunting for prey. The rest of us are different. We blossom not under the light of the Hunter's Moon, but rather the gentle rays of the morning sun.”

Malek pouted at this before at last nodding his understanding. “Jess is always making such fragile friends.”

“Yet they are your friends no less for that,” counseled Twilight, just at that moment showing up, rubbing his cheek against Malek's side.

“Silly cat.” The boy grinned, gently scratching a purring Twilight.

“Not such a bad shape you have taken, Malek, for all that you tease. Fingers are rather useful, after all.”

Malek nodded his agreement, and for a curious moment Jess saw her friend as a great wolf, fierce and terrible, even as her other friends appeared as gentle dear, liquid brown eyes gazing at her so peacefully as they searched for the light of day and gentle forest glades to rest within once more.

Twilight turned his gaze to Jess then, fierce sapphire eyes all seriousness once more. “It's time for you to awaken, Jess. Your friends have been on the outskirts for too long. Pull them free and awaken. We don't have much time.”

Jess frowned. “But my leg still hurts. That stupid man cut it clean off.”

Twilight grinned. "Are you sure of that, my mistress?"

Jess looked down at her leg, as whole as the day she was born, for all that she felt poor Chelton screaming still. “He's stuck in there, isn't he?”

Twilight sighed and nodded. “The price he paid, crossing you. You embraced the darkest of all arts as you hovered by death's door, and soon he shall be utterly consumed by your hideous hunger, never to be reborn again.”

Jess gazed sadly at her leg. “So, I am worse, then. Worse than all the other demons that can only torment and enslave.”

Twilight nodded. “You are the End of All Things, after all. Come, my Jess. It is time to awaken.”

Josie began to cry.

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