Timeless (Maiden Of Time Book 3) by Crystal Collier

Author:Crystal Collier [Collier, Crystal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Raybourne Publishing
Published: 2016-10-25T04:00:00+00:00

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Deamus rubbed at his arm so incessantly it might fall off, spectacles sitting askew as they paced away into the woods.

“You said you know how to open this gateway if we can provide enough energy.” She lifted her eyes to his face.

He opened his mouth and drew in breath, then closed it, gaze downcast.

Alexia stopped and placed a hand on his arm.

He groaned. “I tried to open the gateway, twice.”

She stared at him, dumbfounded. “But the power needed to do so—?”

“It cracked, but I think…”

“Cracked?” Her mind flashed to Deamus’s story of the Soul Eater, the barrier between worlds. They all insisted it was a children’s story, but what if it wasn’t? What if that was what had been attacking them?

He paced forward. “It did not work. I think the gateway may only be opened at a specific location, the place it was created. The place I entered this world.”

She shook the idea away. “Is that where I first found you?”

He nodded.

She recalled the isolated grove that was now missing one of its willow trees, the tree that was a man, but that had been right after her arrival in this time. She had traveled so many places since. No matter how she strained to remember, she couldn’t envision its location. Perhaps Velia could help them. “Do you know where that is?”

“I…no. I am sorry. I thought maybe…” He shook his head. “I was wrong. And then there are the stars.”

“What about them?”

“When they align, the bridge naturally appears, but they will not be in alignment for many hundred years.”

Alexia stopped him with a hand on the arm. “Can the gate be opened without an alignment?”

His head shook, shoulders lifting. He backed away, putting more space between them.

“There is something more, something you’re not telling me.”

His eyebrows lifted, lips pressed tight. They burst open. “I wanted to confess this to you before, but…”

She squeezed his arm. Let this not be something related to the entity.

He twitched and looked away, opening his mouth several times and closing it. Finally, his shoulders straightened. “I am not like you, Alexia. Not like any of you.” He glanced back through the trees, the direction of the camp. “I am human.”

She blinked at him several times. That wasn’t what she’d been expecting.

She laughed.

He wasn’t laughing.

“But I have seen you use powers. You cannot possibly be human, at least not entirely. I myself am half human. There is no shame in it.”

His shoulders drooped. “It is true. Not a drop of Passionate blood in me. There are very few humans who can feel the world around them, and even fewer who can reshape the energy.”

“So you borrow our strength, so to speak, having none of your own? But you have participated in sharings. How is that possible?”

He shrugged timidly. “Borrowing. Only a little.”

She stood back. “But you have intimate knowledge of the gateway and this other world.”

“I am from there. My father was like me, and he was present when the gateway first opened.”

Her brain hurt. “How many years back was that?”

He scuffed the heel of his boot into the ground.

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