The Nivaka Chronicles Boxed Set by Leslie E Heath

Author:Leslie E Heath [Heath, Leslie E]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781734081596
Publisher: Leslie E. Heath, Author
Published: 2020-07-30T04:00:00+00:00

16

Decisions

Kiri knit scarf after scarf, her needles flying with the intensity of her anxiety. Eddrick had no idea what to expect of the ancients in a normal situation, and their case was anything but ordinary.

He stood and stretched; the familiar movements calmed his frayed nerves. He completed the full range of stretches and flopped down on the chair next to his father. “Do you think they’ll call for us first thing in the morning, or make us wait all day?”

Agommi shrugged and stared out the window. “I don’t know. I’ve never seen a case like this one, so I’m not sure how they’ll handle it. All the hearings I’ve been involved with have been spirits that got bored and broke the rules–they haunted places they had never been in life and created strife for the living. In those cases, the bored spirits are reincarnated to spend another lifetime in human form.”

“Oh.” Kiri looked up from her knitting; her needles stopped for the first time all night. “I didn’t know it worked like that. Do they stay within their family line?”

“Most of the time, they do.” He stood and drifted to the window. “I’ve only seen them send someone off to a different line once, and that was because the spirit did some awful things to a group of travelers solely because of their birthplace. The ancients sent him to live in that village so he could learn humility.”

Eddrick grinned. "That sounds like a reasonable punishment." His smile faded, and he drifted close to his father. "You don't think we'll be in trouble for helping Aibek last year, do you?"

“No. You had permission before you acted, so you’ll be fine there.” He patted Aibek’s shoulder and turned back to the view of the night sky. “I’m more worried about their reaction to the spying. They seemed unhappy that you had discovered this in the first place.”

The silence stretched. Eddrick couldn’t think of anything but the bizarre meeting two days before. What would the ancients decide?

The seconds turned to hours as the sun climbed higher in the sky. Eddrick paced, stared out the window, and paced some more, while Kiri knitted a dozen hats and scarves for the orphans in Xona, and Agommi sat, unmoving as a statue. He didn’t blink or breathe.

A knock at the door startled Eddrick, and he jumped to the door and jerked it open. All six of the ancients hovered in the hallway, staring at him with their white, pupil-less eyes.

“I hope you don’t mind,” the tall one whispered. “But we wanted to speak with you in private.”

Eddrick froze, staring at the assembled ancients. The tall one nodded toward the sitting room, and Eddrick shook himself. He swung the door open wider and retreated into the room. The spirits drifted through the door and the bright afternoon light rendered them nearly invisible. Eddrick stood in front of the group, and Agommi and Kiri took their places beside him.

The air caught in his throat and he fought the urge to clear it while he waited.

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