When the Sea Burned by Autumn Dawn

Author:Autumn Dawn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal romance action adventureelementals mermaids selkies

Chapter 4

Sweat dripped down Surge’s bare back as he focused his power on the sword. It glowed blue as it rested on the rough stone worktable in Raze’s workshop. Discarded prototypes lay on the countertops and hung from the walls. The forge glowed dimly, heating another ingot, just in case. They’d been working non-stop on the weapon to kill the Oracle, with spotty success. Raze and Tremor had tried dozens of metal/mineral combinations, but hadn’t found any that could be charged with all of their power at once.

“It’s no use,” he gasped. He straightened, stretching his back. He wiped the sweat from his brow with the back of his hand. “It won’t hold a charge.”

“That’s the fifth prototype with that mineral blend,” Tremor said as he made a note on his clipboard. “I think we can safely discard it.”

Raze propped a hip on the lip of the dangerously hot forge, oblivious to the heat. “We can charge it with one or two energies, but not all three.”

“It’s a new technology. We will find the answer,” Tremor said. Tremor was huge, nearly seven feet of massive power. His skin was like living marble, unnaturally smooth and clear with an artistic tracery of blue veins. He wore a midnight blue pleated kilt, and his white gold hair was cut short. His eyes of copper-rimmed bronze were frustrated as he set aside his notes and stared at the sword. He idly picked up an old hunting knife Raze kept as a scraping tool and walked it through his fingers as he considered the problem. “It wouldn’t be a problem if the Oracle couldn’t block us.”

Surge grunted and took a gulp of kelp tea. He’d missed it for so many years that he drank pots of it now. “Killing her is going to be tough, but according to the prophecy, it’s the only way to stop her.”

The Fates (may they rot in hell) had sent them dreams. To prevent a cataclysmic war, they had to kill the Oracle. They recommended a weapon imbued with the powers of the four major elementals. Trouble was, Wind was still imprisoned and they couldn’t make a weapon yet that held all their powers.

“I had another dream,” Tremor said, surprising them. “I saw the Oracle sneaking into our workshops after we forged our wedding jewelry. She stole the scraps of material we’d used and made a medallion. That’s how she became immune to our powers.”

Raze straightened. “I thought she was stealing our technology and weapons.”

“It felt like a dream from the Fates,” Tremor said solemnly.

“Lovely. The Fates convince us to make wedding jewelry and put it in their keeping, and now this. That was the stupidest thing I ever did.” Well, right after the tsunami, Surge admitted privately.

“How does that enable her offspring to have her powers? Have the elements mutated her genes?” Raze asked.

“I don’t know, but I don’t think she has Wind’s power. His jewelry was made by his children, and I didn’t see her steal those scraps in the dream,” Tremor mused.

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