Prophecies of Light by E. M. Knight

Author:E. M. Knight [Knight, E. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Haven Publishing, Limited.
Published: 2017-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Dagan

Near the ancient coven

A feeling of deep apprehension pulses into me from all sides as I lead the way through the deep, underground shaft.

We’ve been walking for what feels like hours. Beth has stayed close the whole time, but conversation has been non-existent.

I think she feels the same sense of dread that I do.

I have no idea what causes it. I’ve never experienced anything of the sort before. This feels like a deep-rooted fear, seeping into me from the vampiric half of my being. The animalistic, instinctive part is powerfully afraid, and it radiates that fear into my conscious.

Suddenly, I stop. Beth nearly walks into me.

“What is it?” she hisses. Even her voice, always so sure, wavers a tiny bit.

“I think I hear something,” I say. “From up ahead. It sounds like… running water.”

“I don’t hear anything,” Beth says.

“Listen closer. Use your magic, augment your hearing somehow, amplify the sound waves. I don’t know,” I grunt. It’s a measure of how off-kilter I am that I would actually ask her to use magic.

“I… cannot,” she mumbles.

I turn my head back. “What?”

“The Elements are twisted here,” she shudders. “They’re wrong. Perverted. Dangerous. I don’t dare touch them. There’s no telling what they would do.”

I narrow my eyes. “You’re not serious?”

“Deathly so,” she says. “All you and I have is our vampiric strength.” She gives a sudden grin, but it’s so forced as to be almost pitiful. “That’s what you always wanted. Right?”

“Guess I should be careful what I wish for,” I mutter, turning forward again. “We proceed slowly. You tell me the moment you pick up the sound.”

“Okay,” she agrees.

I start walking. Beth is right behind. We get about a hundred yards before she says, “I hear it.”

“It hasn’t gotten all that louder,” I note. “Meaning it’s still far away.”

I glance back at her. She nods. “Let’s keep going.”

I lead us down the tunnel. “When you say the Elements feel different,” I say. “Explain to me what that means.”

“It means exactly what I told you earlier,” she says. “The currents are churning, unlike I’ve ever felt them before. They are wild. If I try to channel them, there’s no way I’ll be able to control what I do.”

“So what do you think is the cause?” I ask her. “Is it something about this place?”

“Undoubtedly,” she answers. “I felt the change as soon as we walked in.”

Maybe that’s the source of my discomfort, I think.

“Dagan?” she asks. “We’ve been here a long time. What do you expect to find?”

“Hell if I know,” I growl. “But we are not turning back, if that’s what you’re suggesting.”

“If whoever built these tunnels is responsible for the change in the currents…” she begins.

I stop and turn back. “Then what?” I question. “You’re not suddenly afraid of this place, are you?”

“We are very near an ancient coven,” she responds cautiously. “It’s no coincidence that the Elements are warped and twisting so near.”

“Well, maybe we’ll stumble onto them down here,” I reply and keep walking.

Another few hundred yards brings us to a large opening.

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