Realm Keepers: Episode One (A Young Adult Fantasy) (Realm Keepers Episodes) by Robinson Garrett & Bolger Z. C

Author:Robinson, Garrett & Bolger, Z. C. [Robinson, Garrett]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Living Art Books
Published: 2013-12-15T16:00:00+00:00

WITH TIME STOPPED ALL AROUND us, I had my first chance to really look at our surroundings. We were on a hill in the middle of nowhere. There was a stone platform on the top of the hill, with a low roof held up by marble columns. On one side of the platform, six stone pillars not unlike the ones with the colored stones from earlier were arranged in a row.

Far off in the distance—I thought it might be south, since the sun was setting to my right—there was a range of mountains, their snow-capped peaks tickling the sky. In the opposite direction, there was a column of black smoke rising from beyond the horizon. If I had to guess, I would have bet that smoke was from the battle we’d just teleported away from. Far to the east of us there was a great forest that looked like it had to stretch for hundreds of miles, and to the west, it was only grasslands until a faint glint on the far horizon that might have been the ocean, or just a really, really big lake. The only sign of life that I could see were birds wheeling far above us in the sky. They, like Cara and her soldiers, were frozen in place.

“Dude, if you can do this,” Calvin said, gesturing to the bubble of time that surrounded us, “Why don’t you just do it all the time? Stopping time is like the best super power ever. You can get out of anything. You could have won the whole battle back there. Just stopped everything, run up and down and taken everyone out.”

Greystone’s eyes grew wide with obviously fake shock. “Oh my goodness, you’re right! I never, ever thought about that in all of my nine hundred years as a wizard.”

“You’re nine hundred years old?” I asked, flabbergasted.

“Older,” he said. “But I’ve only been a wizard for nine hundred years. Before that I was an accountant.”

“Wow, you look amazing,” said Blade. “I mean, before, I thought you looked terrible, but considering your age and all…”

I shot Blade a nasty look. How could he be making jokes right now? This wasn’t some game; we’d just seen people killing and being killed. Calvin, I kind of understood. This was his dream world, and he probably still didn’t even believe it was all real. But I did. I still felt the sting on my shoulder where that creature had touched me—the same sting I was sure Blade was suffering from his blackened, cracked knuckles.

Greystone looked at me and pointed at Blade again. “I have decided that I will be ignoring this one.” He turned to Calvin once more. “And as to your half-witted question, no, I cannot do this whenever I wish. It requires a crystal like the one I just destroyed. Those crystals are quite complicated to acquire. They only form in the cave of a dragon when touched once a decade by the light of a blue moon, that sort of thing.

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