The Other World: Book One by Tracey Tobin

Author:Tracey Tobin [Tobin, Tracey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-07T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Tori blinked uselessly.

Eden and the elder stared at her, seeming to expect something that the teen couldn’t fathom, while Jacob’s gaze was more a mixture of awe and seasickness. Tori herself felt as though her brain had been flipped off. She couldn’t think. Nothing would compute. She was barely able to register color anymore; it was like the visual processes in her mind were shutting down.

“Iryen is currently using his numerous Shadow creatures, and the ability to steal the forms of others, to rule the kingdom,” Eden explained as though she’d been asked a question. “As I entered the body of the woman who gave up everything to stop him, he similarly uses the bodies of the true king and queen as puppets to rule for him. For the past seventeen years the people have believed that their king and queen went mad, never realizing the truth: that the king and queen have been long dead.”

At her words the Maelekanai elder made a horrible hissing noise in the back of his throat. “It is a sick, unnatural thing that this black creature has done,” he growled. “I cannot believe that we have been living in fear of a creature that we did not even know existed.” At this he shot Eden a look that was both inquisitive and perhaps just a little bit angry. “If you knew of this, why did you not inform the people?”

“It made little sense to do so,” Eden justified. “As long as the people believed that it was truly King Kynnon ruling over them, they have suffered in silence, choosing to keep their heads low and just attempt to live. If they had known that it was not their true king, but a creature of darkness wearing his skin, they may have revolted. Such an action would have only resulted in pointless bloodshed, because Victoria is the only one who can truly defeat Iryen.”

Tori listened to all of this as though she was pressing her ear against a glass up to an outer wall; it was all a distorted echo that didn’t make any sense and wouldn’t come together in her mind. She was vaguely cognizant of the fact that Jacob was still staring at her, unblinking.

“How did you know?” the elder was asking. “How could you have been certain that the princess would be safe in this other world that you spirited her away to?”

“There are an endless number of parallel worlds out there,” Eden explained. She waved one hand over the other, and between her palms rose a tiny galaxy of pinprick stars. The little galaxy split in two, and for all intents and purposes the two appeared to be absolutely identical. “A world for every possibility, every decision made differently, every slightly different circumstance. Any two worlds may be identical save for one minuscule difference, or they may have nothing at all in common except for, say, the color of the sky.” She waved her hands again and one of the little galaxies changed shape and color.

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