The Realms of Ancient Collection by S.M. Beiko

Author:S.M. Beiko
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ECW Press
Published: 2019-09-24T00:00:00+00:00

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This was a fool’s errand, and it only took a couple of hours on wing for Eli to come to that conclusion.

He was strapped and at the limit of what had before been an endless font of energy. Of power. He hadn’t let himself recover to any extent — but there wasn’t any time. There might not ever be. He knew that going after Roan was impulsive and irrational and made absolutely no sense — even if he pretended it was simply to retrieve the Dragon Opal. He should have left her to her own devices. That’s what she’d wanted, wasn’t it? To be alone. To carry the burden entirely. That was what it took to be a stonebearer, after all.

But going after her — it was a selfish move, too. Because the Moth Queen’s shadow hung over Eli with every stroke of the Therion’s wings . . .

There is a light in you now, when before there was only darkness . . . Her light will diminish. Only you can free each other.

Freedom. From the stones? Death dealt in riddles and any offered explanation rarely went deeper than the surface. The phantom chain around Eli’s arm, in his chest, tugged hard. West,it said. Keep going. But for how long? Eli glanced down, the razored air raking through his thick feathers. Russia stretched tens of thousands of feet below. He couldn’t determine where the Moonstone pulled him, but Roan had been in Scotland, before. It would take a commercial airliner at least sixteen hours to cover that distance. And if that’s indeed where he was headed, the notion chilled him to the marrow. He hadn’t been back to Scotland since he was young. Too young to understand what going after the Moonstone might cost him, even after he’d lost everything.

Don’t you dare, he heard his mother say from one of those corners of his mind he thought he immured the memories, hoping they’d suffocate and vanish, don’t you dare go looking for it, Eli. No matter what they say, if they come looking for you, telling you it’s your destiny. That stone . . . I hear it still. I won’t let it hurt you. No matter what it says, no matter what they say. Please, Eli, please promise me you won’t —

He extended his will, reached out, and slashed, and the hysterical pleading died. Too late for that. He felt the stone strobing before him, cutting through cloud.

Help me. The fire, it . . . it’s gone. Roan’s voice was pitiful, but he heard it all the same as if she’d been beside him in the air. His jaw tightened.

Eli banked higher, latched onto the wind currents at the tip of the earth. Faster,he hissed, and the stone took him higher still.

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