The Mirror After the Cavern by Jeffrey Quyle

Author:Jeffrey Quyle [Quyle, Jeffrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ingenairii Press LLP
Published: 2018-02-10T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

At first, the large mirror fragment in Silas’s hands seemed to have a dark reflection. The piece of glass was relatively thick, with one portion where the glass was slightly wavy along a long straight edge that Silas assumed was an original edge of the glass before it broke.

The reflection didn’t reveal Silas’s chest; it was much darker than he expected on a bright morning. He squinted and looked closely at the dark glass, concentrating and focusing. Suddenly, the mirror lightened and revealed images, vaguely hazy images that were clear and legible, yet also slightly translucent.

And they were not the images of Silas’s chest, or the wagon, or any of the surrounding area at all. The mirror was showing a partially obscured view of the inside of a large building, one that showed open space and indistinct objects stacked in the distance.

Silas put the mirror down, then rubbed his eyes and forehead as he considered the strangely problematic mirror. He picked it up again, but found to his confusion and relief that it was only a mirror once more, showing him the reflected scarred lines of color on his chest that he had wanted to see.

The boy stared at the mirror for some time, not really looking at the reflection in it, or even looking at the mirror itself. He was staring absently into space as he tried to explain to himself what he had seen. The mirror, like his blade, and like himself, had been in the caves beneath the mountains, and had been exposed to the colored gasses that had filled the passages. The gasses had perhaps done something to the mirror, something that he couldn’t explain, and something that he didn’t want to speak of to anyone else. He knew that the idea of a piece of mirror being altered by the gasses seemed fantastically improbable, and he knew he had already called too much attention to himself through his recent changes. If Prima was right about Ivaric wanting to hunt him down, Silas didn’t want to add another single iota of news about himself to float about as more gossip. He would keep the mirror’s peculiar behavior a secret.

He turned and carefully maneuvered the shard of glass back into his pack, then resumed holding the reins while Hron continued to hold his pace in line with the others in the caravan.

That evening, after they moved past the frontier outpost that marked their safe departure from Ivaric lands, Ruten came in search of Silas.

“Put that animal in the corral, then meet Sareen and me for your first lesson with the sword,” Ruten instructed the new student.

Minutes later, he did just that. Ruten handed him a long stick, one that had apparently been only recently picked off the ground, for it still had bark on parts.

“Take off that too-fancy knife of yours,” Ruten directed, “and give it to me. I don’t want it to get in the way.”

Silas obliged him, and looked at Sareen, who was standing nearby, holding a stick in her own hand.

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