The Seven Drawers by Kendra E Ardnek

Author:Kendra E Ardnek [Ardnek, Kendra E]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: GiraffeCrafts
Published: 2018-10-31T04:00:00+00:00

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I found myself in a dark tunnel, but, strangely enough, the darkness didn’t seem to affect me, and I could still see perfectly well.

“Ivory, why did you stop? Is there something up ahead?”

I wasn’t alone. Spinning around, I found myself staring a female dwarf in the eye. I frowned, glancing down at my hands.

I was a dwarf, too.

Well, that was new. I’d stayed human in all of the previous realms – but, after a realm where the trees were made of crystal, changes to my physique were only to be expected.

“Ivory? Is everything all right?”

My eyes snapped right back up to the face of my companion – Ebony, Rosa’s counterpart in this realm. We were in these tunnels alone together, searching for my father’s body, and the Endless Diamond that he’d been carrying.

“Ivory, you’re weirding me out here. Talk to me.”

“I’m fine!” I quickly answered, spinning back around to face the tunnels. “Perfectly fine. I just … had a thought, that’s all.”

“Is it a helpful thought?” asked Ebony, poking me in the back. “We need to find the diamond before your stepmother does, you know. It’s been two months – I’m beginning to think it impossible. Your father – and it – are probably buried under a couple hundred feet of rubble in a tunnel we’ll never use again.

I frowned. She was right, yet I couldn’t bring myself to admit it. I had to recover that diamond.

“I could summon the mirror of sight,” I suggested.

“Not helpful,” Ebony declared. “You can only summon it when you’re Eirwen, and you’re not … wait. Are you Eirwen right now? Did you just transition? Is that what just happened?”

I shrugged with a sheepish grin as I turned back to face her again. “You caught me. Yes, I am.”

“Good. Summon it, then – no time to waste! We’ve been down here far too long already. I can’t wait to see the look on your stepmother’s face when we find the diamond.”

“I can’t, either,” I agreed, closing my eyes, but it was half-hearted. The potential of her betrayal niggled in the back of my head. I didn’t want it to be true, but something in her words and manner just didn’t add up.

I pushed the confusion aside and focused on drawing the mirror to this realm. For now, finding the Endless Diamond was my priority.

“Show me my father,” I ordered, as soon as it was in my hand.

Immediately, my dwarven reflection swirled and cleared to reveal nothing but a pile of rubble. I swallowed, realizing my father’s death in this realm. I’d known, of course, for death reflected through every realm, but until this moment, for Ivory at least, it’d only been the word of Opal, my stepmother, and Slate, William’s counterpart.

“Buried, as I suspected,” said Ebony, cutting into my grief as she always did. “It’s as lost to us as it is to your stepmother. There’s nothing we can do.”

“No.” I dispelled the image of my father’s unmarked grave. “The treasures aren’t so easily lost. My father knew that he was about to die.

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