Summoned to Destroy by C L Walker

Author:C L Walker [Walker, C L]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

I sat on the bed, forcing Bec to get up to avoid being crushed.

“Speak,” I said. The alcohol was leaving my system faster than I was putting more in, which meant pretty soon I’d have to be responsible. I wasn’t pleased.

“I checked the lore and I didn’t find anything about heartstones,” Roman began. He was in full lecture mode, gesticulating and raising his voice as he paced around the small space. “But I think I know what they are. Now, I could be wrong, but I think they are the original concept of the heaven.”

“I know,” I said. “They are the seed.”

“Alright. You could have told me that and saved me some time. Fine, they are the seed of the heaven. From what I’ve seen, angelic and divine power works the same as magic because they are, fundamentally, the same thing being used in different ways. Given these two pieces of information, I believe the heartstones would grant a god the faith of everyone within the heaven from which it came.”

He looked so pleased with himself. If I’d been a little less drunk I might have broken the news a little better.

“I know,” I said again, starting to feel bad. “It means Invehl can give himself millions or billions of followers without them actually being here.”

Roman stopped pacing and shot me a withering look. “You could have told me that, too. I spent hours coming up with this.”

“I was a little busy. Do you have anything else to share?”

“This idea comes from some old folklore, but it has parallels in modern magic. Imagine a well of pure energy, all of it aligned to one of the great powers.”

“You’ve lost me,” I said.

“Me too,” Bec added.

“Um…imagine magic comes in different flavors?”

“Chocolate magic,” Bec said. “Vanilla magic, toe jam magic.”

“Exactly. You have a tub of pure vanilla magic.” He mimed holding the tub as he began pacing again. “You’re ready to use your vanilla magic and you’ve set everything up in preparation for the vanilla magic. Now, if I put a drop of chocolate magic in there it throws off your plans. It messes with the recipe and things come out differently.”

“I still don’t get it,” I said. “You can taste magic?”

“It’s a metaphor,” he snapped. He took a deep breath and tried again. “So you’ve set everything up and as long as it’s all vanilla everything goes smoothly. But that drop of chocolate knocks things out of whack and everything grinds to a halt.”

“That’s really interesting,” I said. “More whiskey?”

“Dammit, listen. The best witches in the world are so good because they know how to blend the different…flavors of magic together. But if something differs from their plans, if the weave is off, then everything blows up in their faces.”

“Invehl is a god,” I said. “And I still don’t get it.”

“I think the gods are the same, only they do the work instinctively and with only one flavor. Witches combine the great powers but the gods don’t. Neither do their disciples.

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