Twilightfall by Viktor Zólyomi

Author:Viktor Zólyomi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-03T16:00:00+00:00

The Great Library

In the ruined courtyard of Sil Velies, Draconia, present day (1 day and 4 hours before Twilightfall)

`Much worse?' she asks. `What do you mean?'

`Have you ever actually seen a stasis field? A regular one, I mean.'

`What do you mean, regular?'

`In my stronghold, I sealed up that growing fireball in a green sphere, if you recall. That was a miniature stasis field. It can be cast relatively easily, but it has no real practical use, it's only good for experiments most of the time. Regular stasis fields are larger. Large enough to encase a human, or sometimes an even bigger creature. Those things are much harder to create.'

`Yes. I saw such a thing two years ago, when Jenathar tried to have Jason captured.'

`But you've never been inside a stasis field, have you?'

`No, never.'

`Well, let me explain what it's like inside one. The first thing you feel is that everything slows down. Your movements, your senses, everything. Until the spell is completed and you become totally immobile, and unable to use magic. The field completely paralyzes you, and sustains you as well, but you remain conscious. You see and hear everything that happens.

You remain in this state as long as the field is maintained. If a mage casts a stasis field, he pumps a certain amount of magic energy into it, and that makes it last for a while. Time after time he must re-power the field, or it will cease.

Now, a stasis void... That's a different story. The basics are the same, it puts you in stasis, you're immobile, sustained, and aware. But the field is teleported into the space between the Planes, the endless empty void that separates the Material Worlds. It is a place of total blackness and nothingness. If someone is placed in a stasis void, he is forced to endure the horrors of being locked into a place where you can hear and see and smell nothing, completely immobile, and yet be fully conscious. Can you imagine what that's like? It is the most horrible spell ever conceived...'

`Why would anyone create such a spell?'

`It was designed to imprison immortal creatures. Denizens of the Spiritual Planes that come to the Material Worlds cannot be destroyed. If killed, they just go back to their home plane. Of course, there, they can be killed, much like Jason killed Th'Mesh. Such feats are extremely difficult to accomplish however. The stasis void was designed to imprison the avatars of powerful spiritual beings. You see, it is maintained indefinitely, since the field doesn't decay in the space between the Planes. You cast it on someone, and he stays in the stasis void forever.

Except if you die. The energies maintaining the stasis void do not dissipate, but it is bound to your will when you cast it. With your death, the stasis void ceases to exist, and its prisoner is teleported back to the very place where you cast the spell on him. Which means, if I am to free Danny Boy, I have to kill Voi'Shek!'

`This man you mentioned, this Danny Boy.

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