Torchlight by Theresa Dahlheim

Author:Theresa Dahlheim [Dahlheim, Theresa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-01-19T22:00:00+00:00

Stars stretched to infinity, and he was made of their light. Seeing, and feeling, the furnace heat of them, and the absolute cold between them, he breathed the magic of the universe.

You shall see the face of God and live.

Live. He was alive.

The earth was his body, and the waters of the sea swirled through him, pushing him, waking him. Everything was moving, water over water, water over rock, rock over rock, hurricane mirroring earthquake. The curve of the half moon threw thin violet beams through the racing clouds to fall across the four square towers of the ancient stronghold.

He was the beating heart, the living blood, of the castle that had waited centuries for him, that now knew him as its builder and welcomed him home.

Home. You are home.

From the crown of the city’s high hill a hundred thousand lights cascaded to the sea, a twinkling net of earthbound stars reaching up to forever. Each light was a lamp aloft, a warm fire banked ... but more than that ... each light was each person who had built each fire, the people were the lights, the flickering strength against the rain and wind. They were the power to hold back the vast, patient darkness ...

Vistas of stars and lives lay before him, every light its own color, unimagined variations that shaded red into yellow into blue into purple into white, so many tones of white—symphonies of white. No two alike, in sky or city, above or below. He was made of their light, of their warmth; he drew all into himself, could feel heat rising from the earth to radiate through him; he was their hearthfire. He was home.

Light, warmth, home. Magic.

He felt he hadn’t even truly believed in magic before now. So many paths lay before him that they weren’t paths at all, but an ocean of possibilities and miracles.

He was limitless.

The whisper of the stars drew him, and the God of the universe touched his eyes.

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