True Son by Krumwiede Lana

Author:Krumwiede, Lana [Krumwiede, Lana]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780763672638
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2015-05-03T23:00:00+00:00

Gevri’s legs were getting worse. He couldn’t even bear to move them. He felt hot and sweaty, and he knew what that meant: infection. Someone shoved food into his cell once a day, but Gevri didn’t even bother to eat. He was dying; that was certain. Why prolong it by eating?

He drifted in and out of reality, sometimes reliving memories, sometimes redreaming nightmares, waiting for death to claim him. It was all a jumbled haze of pain, until something came to him.

Gevri could not say what it was, exactly. It did not feel like the other hallucinations he’d experienced. This time, he was fully aware of what was happening, more aware than he had been during his entire captivity.

Someone was with him. He felt a distinct presence here, in this dank misery of a cell.

Taemon.

He knew it with more certainty than if he’d actually seen him with his eyes. He knew it the same way he could feel Saunch or Neeza in his head with telepathy — though he hadn’t been able to detect them since their capture. He just knew who it was, the way he knew when he tasted mustard or smelled the ocean.

It was Taemon. Not physically in the room, but his influence, his dominion, was here.

At first, nothing changed other than the feeling that he was not alone anymore. Gevri had a feeling that Taemon was watching, searching, observing and probing.

When something did happen, it was excruciating. Gevri felt the bones in his left leg shift. He couldn’t stop himself from crying out. Then a burning sensation began, like a fire deep in his bones. Gevri was pretty sure what was happening. His bones were knitting themselves back together. Sure enough, once the agony had subsided, his leg looked straight again, his foot angled the way it should.

The same thing repeated in the other leg. First the stab of exquisite pain — Gevri only gasped this time — then the burning. Now both legs looked straight.

After that, Gevri watched with wonder as the swelling in his legs disappeared in a matter of seconds. Bruises, crusty wounds, lacerations — they all healed themselves and disappeared with only the faintest of scars left on his skin.

A surge of energy blazed through his legs and moved throughout his body. His dizziness and fever dissipated. He felt good. No, not good. Perfect. Not even hungry or tired.

He stood, something he never thought he would do again. He flexed his legs. He felt like he could do a set of military three-a-day workouts without breaking a sweat.

Taemon was doing this? If Taemon was this powerful, why had he not shown it before?

If the miracle of his legs was not enough, Gevri could not believe the next thing he saw. The door to his cell swung open.

Taemon? Is it you? How? Why?

You freed Jix, Taemon answered. Your father asked me to free you.

After that, Gevri felt Taemon’s presence withdraw.

Gevri hesitated, recalling what had happened the last time he tried to escape. Then he realized: now that he was fully healed, he could exercise dominion freely.

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