The Shadow Accords Box Set: Books 1-3 by D.K. Holmberg

Author:D.K. Holmberg [Holmberg, D.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2018-01-15T22:00:00+00:00

15

As Carth ran toward the palace, she wondered what she was doing. If the Hjan attacked, did she really think there was anything she could do? The masters were there, and they would keep the palace and the grounds safe, something Carth wouldn’t be able to help with. She’d gotten lucky the last time she faced the Hjan, and the time before that, she’d only survived because Invar and the other masters had appeared.

The nausea intensified.

This was worse than the last attack.

Holding on to the connection to the shadows eased the nausea somewhat, at least keeping her from vomiting all over herself. She maintained the shadow cloak and held tightly to the connection to the A’ras magic as well.

The palace wall loomed into view.

An explosion thundered.

Carth felt the force of it nearly throw her back. Had she not already been holding both the shadow blessing and the A’ras magic, she might have fallen, but instead, she jumped.

And sailed through the air, landing nearly a dozen steps from where she had been.

Carth almost stumbled as she landed. Had she used A’ras magic to leap? There were those of the A’ras who could use their magic in such a way, but Carth had never managed to do anything quite like that before. Or was it the shadow blessing? She thought of how she had once used the shadows, wrapping herself in them as she swam through the dark, trying to help Kel.

She leaped again, and again she sailed.

Carth laughed, jumping again and again. Each jump took her the same distance.

Another explosion thundered from the palace wall.

Carth launched herself toward it.

A section of the wall had crumbled. As she arrived, she saw a line of A’ras facing five hooded figures. They had to be Hjan by the way they flickered as they moved, having a strange way they managed to attack, and as they did, the nausea rolled through her.

Invar and Lyanna faced against one of the Hjan, pushing him back. The other four fought among the A’ras, moving with a blinding speed as they flickered and then disappeared.

Carth unsheathed her knife and pressed A’ras magic through it. As she did, she added the shadow magic as well. She leaped forward, still wrapped in shadows.

She struck one of the Hjan, and he fell.

Carth jumped back, trying to get clear, but on this side of the wall, her jumps didn’t carry quite as far.

Two of the Hjan turned toward her, though neither was the man she’d protected Invar from.

Carth pulled on the shadows and had to do so at the expense of losing the connection to the A’ras magic. She wrapped them around her, cloaking herself, praying that she remained hidden enough that they wouldn’t—or couldn’t—see her.

Without the damage to the wall, she doubted she would have managed. She pressed on the shadows that she cloaked herself with and sent them surging through the knife.

She sliced at one of the Hjan.

Her knife caught the man on the arm and he fell. Blackness coursed through him.

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