The Promise by Lerangis Peter

Author:Lerangis, Peter [Lerangis, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-01-08T19:00:00+00:00

Years later

MY DIARY! I have found you! I heard murmurings about a book written in a strange tongue that nobody could recognize.

It could have been anything, but I knew.

Somehow I knew.

I have just reread all of what I’d written as a young man. Such naïveté! Such idealism! Well, I admit I am still the same man, albeit older, and I am drawn to continuing what I started.

So, dear Diary, here is what happened. Please be prepared, old friend—for after I tell you I must destroy you, so you do not end up in the wrong hands. You see, nowadays I am living a life untethered to my former self.

The better to track down my brother, Massarym, and what he stole.

Now then. The night of the fish storm, I sneaked through the rain to the Great Onyx Circle and found my way to Mother’s beloved Heptakiklos, where the seven deadly Loculi rested.

By now, dear Diary, perhaps you have forgotten the circular ridge, which has since risen up to form the proper volcano known as Mount Onyx. Now the maze through the woods has become a labyrinth through a mountain. But to my story!

I sought my pet vizzeet—what was his name?—Kav’i! Kav’i had vanished from his cage during the chaos of the day. So I was on my own in the maze.

I remember the spring was especially full, glowing with wisps of bluish smoke that seemed to have a luminescence of their own. When I reached the waterfall I stopped to plunge my hands deep, splashing some on my face. It was cold and revitalizing.

Pinpricks of mist dotted my skin as I approached the Heptakiklos.

Eephus—the griffin I had trained painstakingly to protect my mother’s invention—was sleeping next to it. He raised his fearsome head, instantly alert as I approached. I spoke gently to him, murmuring reassurance as I moved toward the very objects he was supposed to protect.

Rain pelted me as I stepped closer. The Heptakiklos was dark under the overcast sky, but the Loculi glowed faintly with their own power, and were further lit by the thick streams of blue vapor that issued from cracks all around us.

The Loculi rested in their indentations—but only six glowing spheres. Had the Loculus of Invisibility completely vanished? Before I’d been able to see its flowing energy. The handle of a sword was wedged deep into the middle of the Heptakiklos. I bent down to pick up the invisible orb. My hand touched . . . nothing.

With the Loculus of Invisibility, as you know, one can feel the surface, and then one becomes invisible. But no, Diary—nothing was there!

Behind me the air shifted imperceptibly. In that moment I knew exactly what had happened.

I stood and turned. “M-M-Massarym?”

“A pity, I thought you’d lost that stutter,” my brother’s voice rang out. “You are terrible at secret plots too, Karai. While you sneaked here, f-f-fumbling and b-b-bumbling your way, I woke Mother and told her of your plans. Do you know what? She didn’t want me to throw

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