The Magelands Origins by Christopher Mitchell

Author:Christopher Mitchell [Mitchell, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781912879205
Publisher: Brigdomin Books Ltd
Published: 2019-09-05T16:00:00+00:00

Hours later, near dawn, Daphne perched on the tiled roof of a tenement, in a pleasant residential district of the capital. Wearing clothes she had stolen from an open window, a dark hood shadowed her face as she watched the building opposite.

A faint light was growing to her left, the east, where the first glimmerings of sunrise were approaching. Over to her right, the Upper City was ablaze, and she could see flames coming from the Old Tower, and from part of the citadel. The streets below were silent. She had ghosted through areas of the Lower City where riots were still going on, but none had reached this neighbourhood, filled as it was with more upmarket, and guarded, mansions of the merchant class.

The particular mansion that concerned her looked no different from the others, but she knew it was where her old friend Douanna was residing.

A bedroom lay opposite Daphne’s position and through a narrow crack in the shutters she could see a bed, where someone was sleeping. She smiled at the thought of what she was about to attempt. Though she had read about the power in books, she had no idea how it was done, but something within her was urging her to try. After all, if her father could do it, why couldn’t she?

She made herself comfortable, resting against the stone blocks of a chimney, and focussed her line-vision, shooting her sight right through the crack in the shutters of the window. In the dim light of the bedroom, she looked around, and located the bed. Douanna was there, sleeping peacefully, a thin cover pulled up to her shoulders. One of her arms was resting on the blanket, and her silvery scales glimmered in the low light.

Daphne focussed all her vision on the woman, and tried to enter her mind. She pushed her sight right up to the woman’s closed eyes, but nothing happened. She concentrated with all her being, pushing her line-vision to its limits, trying to feel her way into Douanna’s head. She was tiring, and was about to give up in frustration, when her vision went black, and she reeled in confusion.

She felt panic, and a strange, dislocating sense of being in someone else’s mind. She could feel the woman breathing, and sensed her body and limbs as she slept.

Douanna? she whispered.

Nothing.

Douanna? she said a little louder.

Ahhh! Who’s there? Am I dreaming?

No. Well, yes, you’re asleep, but I’m really here.

Daphne? My dear, is that you?

Daphne half sobbed. Yes.

How cheeky! Douanna said. You never told me you had the inner-vision.

You know about that? I thought it was a secret.

Not a very well kept one, my dear, Douanna said. Where are you?

On the roof of the building across from your window.

Ha! Douanna laughed. I always knew you were a resourceful girl. And what is it that I can do for you?

I was hoping you might like to take me to Rahain, Daphne said. We could be partners. I think my powers might be useful.

Sounds a little risky, Daphne dear, Douanna replied.

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