Transcendent by A.L. Knorr

Author:A.L. Knorr
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Beta Team Copy

13

Eohne stood at her worktable, eyeing the butterflies miserably. She let out a long sigh and lifted her fingertips to her temples where the beginnings of a headache were stirring.

For days, she and Linlett had been working together on the barrier magic without success. They had taken apart whole sections of the magic and reassembled them, looking for traces of tampering. Linlett had to do the actual physical work with the filaments, since only he had the ability to touch them, but Eohne was there, making notes and using her powerful memory to help.

It was frustrating, because Eohne knew what she was capable of; she just hadn't yet been able to bridge the Light Elves’ magic with her own. It was like trying to communicate with someone who didn't speak the same language; basic concepts came across roughly, but full understanding was nuanced and as elusive as the tide.

Linlett had tried to show Eohne how to transform her fingertips into the stars that would allow her to feel the filaments, to move and read them, but thus far she seemed incapable of this kind of magic. It was disheartening. After all, the Elves of Charra-Rae were descended from the Light Elves. Surely the residue of their magic would still reside within Eohne's body, there to access if she learned how. Perhaps she'd just been in tune with frequencies for so long that any other magical language she might have been capable of had gone dormant.

They had visited more than half of the domes. Linlett would remove the dashboards, and the same beautiful web of threaded color and light would shoot into the sky, intact and perfect. Linlett worked tirelessly, without complaint or any display of discouragement. He was convinced that as long as they didn't give up, they would find the source of the problem. It had to be there—–some trace, some clue… they just hadn't found it yet.

Time was passing, and Eohne still hadn't responded to Sohne. She was unsure of what to say and unsure of how long she could remain absent from Charra-Rae without the Elf princess getting impatient enough to punish her.

No more messages had come; it wasn't Sohne's style to repeat herself. Eohne had begun to wonder if the Elf princess would send someone to retrieve her, or worse, come herself.

Sohne rarely leaves the safety of our forest kingdom, but might she? For an Elf subject as valuable as me? Eohne didn't know. She just kept telling herself that she'd go home in another week, just one more week.

Somehow, that week would roll by, and still Eohne stayed.

And now, Linlett. Another reason to stay.

The work was fascinating. It was frustrating, but the feeling that they were on the edge of a breakthrough increased every day.

Eohne's eye fell on her leather belt containing the small vials of vibratory essence, the same one she'd been wearing when she first left Charra-Rae.

The same belt I tracked Toth and Caje with, she thought with a pang.

She smiled as she

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