Sunburner (Moonburner Cycle Book 2) by Claire Luana

Author:Claire Luana [Luana, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Live Edge Publishing
Published: 2017-09-26T06:00:00+00:00

It was a wooden box. Its dark surface bore crude carvings, as if it had been hastily made.

The elder had sent one of his seishen to retrieve the thing, and now he held it in his taloned hand.

“What is it?” Colum asked, leaning forward to get a closer look. Clearly, the prospect of some valuable antiquity was enough to stir him from his silent musings at the back of the room.

“I don’t know exactly what it is, except that it came with a message,” the elder said. “When my seishen and I fled from the spirit world to the Misty Forest, the tengu were engaged in a two-pronged assault. On the seishen in the spirit world, and on the burners and gods in the mortal world. A messenger from the burners arrived on our shore after the battle was over. He was near death and only lived long enough to tell me that the tengu had been driven back for a time, but at great cost. The burner king and queen were killed and the gods were gone. He said that this box was key to finding Tsuki and Taiyo.”

“May I see it?” Kai asked.

The elder handed it to her, and she turned it over in her hand. It was weighty and warm to the touch.

She looked up and found the elder’s keen eagle eyes watching her. “What?” she asked, suddenly self-conscious.

“The messenger told me one more thing,” it said. “That the box will only open to the heirs. I must admit, I was curious if it would open at your touch.”

“Which heirs?” Hiro asked, holding out his hand for the box.

“The true heirs to the throne of Miina and Kita. The moon and sunburners.”

The moment Kai handed the box to Hiro, light exploded from within.

It was like standing in a dream. Images emanated from the box, projecting on the stucco ceiling.

They all stared in slack-jawed awe as they tried to comprehend what they were seeing.

“What kind of magic is this?” Emi asked, her voice reverential.

“It’s like scrying for a person…but…they managed to capture it somehow,” Kai said.

Hiro peered at the image, narrowing his eyes. He turned the box slowly, and the image rotated. It came into focus.

“I see it!” Kai said. The light portrayed a narrow mountain pass covered with ice and snow. The image showed a treacherous path between two craggy peaks. Above the jagged peaks stretched a starry sky, but it was unlike any sky she had ever seen. Across the blackness stretched a band of vertical green lines dancing and undulating. Like someone had taken a paintbrush and dashed it across the heavens.

“It’s beautiful,” said Emi.

“What is this place?” Hiro asked.

“I do not know,” the elder said. “The box has never opened for me. But I believe it may be where you can find Taiyo. You are his true heir.”

The elder took the box from Hiro and the image abruptly winked out. They all stood blinking and shaking their heads, a little unsure if it had been real.

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