Trials of the Vampire by Emma Glass

Author:Emma Glass [Glass, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fangs and Fire Press
Published: 2017-08-25T07:00:00+00:00

“Are you sure about this, Elliott? What if it acts all funny around me?”

“You’ll be fine,” he insisted playfully.

“I don’t know… I’m scared.”

“Don’t worry. I’ll be right here with you.”

“O-okay…”

Supportively, Elliott stepped into place at my back. I felt his strong arms envelope my abdomen as we stood together on the chrysm node.

The metallic circle under our feet thrummed to life at his touch; red light whirled around us in a column, brightening quickly until it was almost blinding.

“Elliott… Elliott?!”

“Don’t worry, Clara!” He laughed happily into my ear, and it sent a small shudder down my skin. “You’ll be fine! Just hold on–”

Suddenly, the air crackled around us.

We were standing in a dark place. Standing on a different node, ours was one out of several in a semi-circle. The overhead lighting shone down much dimmer now, and I could barely see any of my surroundings.

“There,” he whispered. “Not so bad, huh?”

“That was…” I shook my head. “Exhilarating! So that’s what chrysm can do?”

“Chrysm can do many things.” He took me by the hand and led me down from the node. “This is one of its endless applications. Once my scientists have worked out the technology more, I hope we can bring chrysm travel to the public.”

“Oh, that would be wonderful,” I gasped as he walked me down a dark hallway. “Do your people have any kind of mass transit?”

“Mass transit?”

“Transportation,” I clarified. “Ways of quickly getting from one place to another, perhaps not as instantaneously as that…”

“We have livestock for that.”

I almost laughed aloud. “I’m still trying to get over how weird this is. You live in remote villages and stone castles and you don’t have electricity; that makes sense. But you have teleportation and magic indoor lighting, but no phones or Internet? No buses or planes? What kind of wacky priorities do you people have?”

“Our world has different needs than yours,” Elliott offered with a deflective shrug. “There are significantly fewer of us, and we live longer lives. We stay within our holds. Traveling to the rival kingdoms can mean certain death to some of us.”

We passed through a large, dim area with an array of gigantic screens attached to an engine far bigger than anything in memory – haphazardly, the screens made some kind of towering wall.

“What is that?”

A pair of female workers rushed around a set of complicated instruments and screens beneath the machines. They paused only to look at us, and I felt their inquisitive gazes.

“This chamber regulates all of the chrysm in Stonehold Castle,” he pushed me past. “These two are some of the only attendants in the entire hold who can properly study and control the necessary levels. These machines are far too complicated for many of us to properly maintain; we keep several pairs of these vampires in the castle to run the engines at all times.”

Elliott led me down another hallway and to another semi-circular set of chrysm nodes. “Here, Clara… let’s take a shortcut to Craven Keep.”

“So then, this is how you get around the castle so quickly?” I grinned up at him.

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