Resurrection (The Stork Tower Book 7) by Tony Corden

Author:Tony Corden [Corden, Tony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-02-12T22:00:00+00:00

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December 25 2073 - Evening - Part 10

PNEUMATICA - GRAH

Takobu looked over at Jamaree, “T: What do you mean, ‘the darkness that comes from hanji’?”

“X: Those who mine hanji do slowly waste away in their spirit, for the hanji absorbs their life. Even so, it is this life that the hanji steals, which powers the great portals. In the days of old, we mined only a small amount of hanji, and the spirit of those who took it from the ground had time to replenish. As the demand increased, we continued to mine hanji but in greater quantities. Even though their bodies remained strong, that which made them Ma’nav, the name by which we call ourselves, slowly faded until they were emptied. Once emptied they became Ja’ mar. The Ja’ mar eternally seek that which they have lost, and so they attack all who still possess spirit, even those from primitive races such as your own. When the Ja’ mar have access to the blood of a Ma’nav, they begin to absorb the spirit of the living. As they take in the spirit, it is believed they remember their life. This memory lasts only for a moment because the spirit which reveals their memory is not their own, and so the memory fades, the spirit is extinguished. Where there was once one Ja’ mar, there are now two. In their unending anguish, the Ja’ mar seek out their own kind for companionship. In their rage, they attack everything else that lives.

“It is an honour to grant the Ja’ mar peace. This can only be done by removing their heads or destroying their brain. All other wounds, even those that would kill a Ma’nav, still cause harm, but the Ja’ mar do not find peace. Although some injuries heal, the deadlands are covered with Ja’ mar in every stage of decay. The Ja’mar feed on those who find peace or those so injured that they cannot move. It is the Ja’ mar that cry out in anguish and rage through the night, their voices a constant reminder of the doom that came upon Grah.

“Once this land was fertile and home to billions of Ma’nav. In our hands, we held the power of steam, of gears and the movement of fluid. We built great machines to give light to our cities and even to power upgrades for our bodies. In our quest for wealth, influence, long life and for power, we continued to pull hanji from the ground even when the first of the Ja’ mar appeared.

“We tried to treat them as if they were merely ill for we were unaware that their spirits were gone. Many tried to stop the Parishad from continuing to provide hanji to the worlds like Pyranthia and Julgon. Julgon is that world from whence the driver has come. The Parishad would not give ear to the cries of our people. The number of Ja’ mar increased and then, on that day we call our ‘Doom’, one of them escaped the place where it was being treated.

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