Alchemist Mastery (The Alchemist Book 6) by Dan Michaelson & D.K. Holmberg

Author:Dan Michaelson & D.K. Holmberg [Michaelson, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2022-02-07T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Sam focused on the source and held on to the different strands he had split. In this place, it was far easier than in almost any other. It was simple for him to create the anchor point and then force them away. When that power surged around them, it carried them.

James had started to say something to Sam as it squeezed. He cut it off abruptly.

The conduit carried them directly outside of the city of Erstan.

It wasn’t a city, not really. More of a town, or even a village. Even with what he had seen in his travels, Sam wasn’t sure what to call it. Tavran was enormous compared to Erstan, though some part of it still felt comforting, at least in his mind. He wondered if he would still feel that way if he were to stay here. He was an outsider now, and connected to the Academy in a way that he wanted to maintain. That wouldn’t be possible in Erstan.

“You brought us back to Erstan,” Mia said. “Why? Do you think we will find some answers about our father here? Our home was gone, Sam.”

“I know. We could still go and take a look.” That had been part of his thought about all of this. Visit their old home, visit the run-down ruins of a building they had called their broken palace, and maybe even see a few of the people they’d once considered friends. Then again, there were precious few of those. He doubted that many people were terribly concerned that he and Mia had suddenly disappeared.

There had been some who had helped when they had first been homeless, though that help had quickly dried up.

He looked at Mia and saw tears welling up in her eyes. “You don’t have to do this,” he said. “Maybe I made a mistake. I know you weren’t always happy here.”

“That’s just it,” she said, her voice a whisper. “I was happier here than I have been in the Academy.”

“What?”

Tara frowned at Sam, and he could already tell the line of thoughts racing through her mind. They had been homeless. They had struggled to eat. They had suffered. And his sister had been happier here?

“When we were here, all you thought about was taking care of us.”

“That’s all I still think about,” Sam said.

Mia looked up. “Is it?” Her voice had a hard edge, and she took a deep breath, settling herself down. “You keep a distance from me, and I understand the reason. I’ve even encouraged it, I realize, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy for me. I don’t want to have a distance from you. I want to have my brother. But it doesn’t feel like I get him anymore.”

“You still get him,” Sam said.

“I don’t know that I do. And now I’m starting to wonder if I even can. Maybe you’re lost to me.”

“I’m not lost,” he said. Sam slipped his arm around her shoulders, and she stiffened for a moment, but she didn’t pull away. “Think about what we had here, Mia.

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