The Guardian's Grimoire by Oxford Rain

Author:Oxford, Rain [Oxford, Rain]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2015-01-03T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Kiro

In my many years, desolation and fear were rare emotions for me to experience. With knowledge and power comes control, and I was comfortable being in control. Having a child is, in a way, giving up control when I needed it more than ever.

Dylan was missing. How foolish was I to let him out of my sight, but as a fully grown man; he should have been capable of following me. Had someone taken him? Dylan was no child, and he had no enemies on Duran as of yet, but Anoshii was not the safest land for a wizard. Terrible situations ran through my head, each more horrible than the last, followed by few solutions. Divina, lazy as she was, focused her attentions on calming me rather than finding my apprentice, only succeeding in irritating me further.

“He’ll be fine. You would feel it if he were in danger.”

“I would feel when it is too late to help him. You may continue with your more pressing matters, Divina, while I look for him.”

She glared at me, but the chill in her eyes was useless against the adrenaline coursing through me. “Don’t act like I don’t care about him, because I do. I just don’t feel the need to freak out the moment he goes missing. He probably got caught up watching the sights and is now sitting in an alley somewhere, waiting for us to find him. I’m sure if you just calm down and feel for his mind, you can find him.”

So I did, thankful to feel him close. While I could feel that he was worried, I also knew he wasn’t panicking. Surely that meant he was safe, just as Divina had said. I focused my mind into his, which was more difficult by far than the average person. Pushing away his emotions, I focused on his thoughts.

“Dylan. Divina and I will find you soon, so stay where you are,” I told him, using English once again. I waited for surprise, relief, and the jumbled questions I had come to expect from his thoughts. I got nothing. “Dylan? Can you hear me?” Again, he gave no sign of hearing me. Now my relief was draining away.

“Well?” Divina asked.

“Something’s wrong.” In the next instant, I was in emptiness. I couldn’t contain my growl of frustration.

“Are you growling at me, servant?” Erono’s voiceless ire sounded in my head. If my senses were not blind, I would probably have been shivering.

“No, of course not, but I must beg your understanding that I be returned to Duran at once. My apprentice is missing.”

“The boy is not missing; he is being taken care of. You will go to Earth.”

“But Dylan---”

“I will not repeat myself. As his master, you now must take care of Earth as he should be doing, as well as Duran. I do not care what happens to him, but Tiamat is insistent that her world have an able Guardian. Vretial’s servants are wreaking havoc on Earth, trying to draw the boy out.

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