The Cursed Herald by Rina S Mamoon

Author:Rina S Mamoon [Mamoon, Rina S]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 2018-12-20T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

The Discovery

On the morning of December 21, Mara woke up and joined James for breakfast. It was a quiet morning. Today was her birthday, yet she never said anything. No one else said a peep about it either. It was possible her remaining friends forgot, but it was okay. She missed thirty birthdays. With her family and close friend gone, it wasn’t worth celebrating. Mara’s birthday also coincided with the Winter Festival, but due to the impending apocalypse, such events were cancelled. Then again, a cancelled festival also meant very little to Mara since she wouldn’t be able to celebrate with family. Instead, they were searching for Aazalith so they could stop her from destroying Ardana.

Mara watched while Aspen meditated. The eyes on her visor glowed as she remained still. She stayed like this for a few hours. Mara turned away briefly, but James remained to watch. He was the first to know what Aspen discovered.

When Mara returned, she saw James approaching her.

“We have some good news and bad news,” he began. “Aspen found them.”

“That’s good,” Mara responded. “So, what’s the bad news?”

“Aazalith has partially awakened. The recent earthquake was her leaving the Dark Labyrinth. I guess it’s no surprise since two seals remained when it happened, but it does make me wonder if she awoke as soon as the seals began to fail.”

Mara remembered her previous encounter with the divine. While hunting the Siren, she came into contact with the creature. Aazalith opened her eyes and looked right at her. After thinking about the memory, Mara gazed at James and said, “I think you’re right.” Then, “Where is she?”

“She is deep in the ocean,” the Watcher said, rising to her feet. “As long as the final seal remains intact, she won’t be able to fully awaken.”

“Okay, but this is what we want, right?” Mara asked.

“That’s just the thing,” James murmured. His face grew solemn.

“The final seal must be broken,” Aspen revealed.

The huntress gawked at the two. “I thought we weren’t going to kill Morgan?”

“She’ll return to life as long as her soul is not absorbed,” Aspen replied. “She can still help us put Amara to rest.”

“This is risky,” Mara argued. “We don’t know what kind of destruction Aazalith will bring once awakened.”

“We’re running out of options,” James told her. “Even with our current technology, there is no way to reach her.”

“There has to be a way,” Mara said, returning to her room.

Looking to her father’s journal, she reckoned there had to be something about stopping the divine without awakening her. While going through her father’s notes, her eyes glanced at Nightingale. The hollow opening at the pommel made the sword appear incomplete. Her eyes drifted back to the notes. Turning the page, she began to read an entry titled, “Moonstone”.

“The Thoron Sages defeated the Dragon Goddess, Aazalith, using a mystical rock called moonstone,” Mara read. “Moonstone is a siphon for magic, which was used to remove Aazalith’s soul. Upon absorbing her soul, the stone crystallized and exploded, shattering into several pieces of varying sizes.

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