Whisper of Souls by Michelle Zink

Author:Michelle Zink [Zink, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780316227667
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Published: 2012-06-04T22:00:00+00:00

Adelaide was grateful for the carriage ride back to Birchwood. Edmund had seemed startled when she had emerged from Sarah’s building, and she could only presume she looked as horrendous as she felt. She would need the ride to compose herself. It would not do to worry Thomas, or worse, Lia and Alice, both of whom were sometimes too observant for their own good.

She thought back to Sarah’s words. To the power of the Souls, felt even across the worlds, though she was sure someone else—someone without Sarah’s gifts and without Adelaide’s curse—would not have noticed their presence.

And then there was Samael.

She had felt him, too. Had wanted to go to him. Even now, the dim light inside the carriage and the rocking of it across the ground served only to make her think of her chamber. Of a dark room in which she could close her eyes and fall into the Otherworlds. This, despite the threat that existed to her very soul.

In some ways, it was a relief. The gauntlet had been thrown. The ultimatum given. Now there was no question as to her fate, for there were only three choices.

Give in to Samael and open the Gate to this world.

Give in to her weakness, travel the Plane at will, and allow her soul to be detained there for eternity.

Or end it on her own terms.

She did not consider fighting an option. She had been fighting. Had been trying to deny her increasingly weak will for so long now that she could not remember when it had begun.

And she had failed. She had allowed countless Souls to pass through her as she slept, every one of them now here in the physical world, waiting for Samael to lead them in a takeover that would end life as everyone knew it.

No. She was already doing too poor a job of fighting.

Neither was willingly opening the Gate to Samael an option. The guilt of her travel already threatened to kill her. She would not be able to live with herself if she were responsible for unleashing such evil on the world.

She gave thought to her remaining options. She could say her goodbyes and slip into travel, allowing Samael to detain her, to sever the astral cord binding her soul with her body. Margery would find her in the morning, cold and dead. Her husband and daughters would mourn, wondering what strange occurrence had happened to cause the death of so young a woman. They would point to the trauma of Henry’s birth as reason enough, though Thomas and Ginny would certainly suspect something more sinister.

But Adelaide would never be reunited with her family. Would not meet them again in the next world, for her soul would be forever detained in the prison of the icy Void.

This she could not bear.

Which meant there was only one thing to do. Only one thing that would keep her family safe and allow her the hope of seeing them again.

She leaned back against the seat of the carriage, a numbing relief spreading through her veins as she began to plan.

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