Ancient Allies by Tora Moon

Author:Tora Moon [Moon, Tora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lunar Alchemy Publishing Company
Published: 2016-11-24T16:00:00+00:00

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The library was quiet. Sunlight fell in through the high windows, filling the cavernous room with warmth without touching the fragile books and scrolls. Long lines of shelves marched the length of the room, books stacked in neat order, scrolls in their cubbyholes. This section was reserved for the more modern works, those after the Great War.

The books Blazel wanted were older, hidden, forgotten. It had been over a thousand years since the Great War had ended, leaving the Posairs’ society in ruins, their once-great cities destroyed. Whether their people would survive had been questionable and all efforts had been put into that endeavor. The war and its cause were thrust aside as the few remaining people struggled to rebuild their world.

When he was a teenager, Blazel had found an ancient history buried deep in the dusty stacks, describing the struggle his ancestors had faced after the war and the horror of the first attack by the Malvers monsters. He remembered reading a personal footnote by the historian saying something about the Supreme’s choice to eradicate all memory of the enemies fought in the war. The historian had cautioned it would be a detriment, for one day their enemies would return. His words were proving true. Blazel was searching the stacks for the book, hoping it would give him clues of what they now faced.

He’d lost the others somewhere in the library’s depths as they conducted their own searches. After octars of searching, and with the light becoming dimmer, he wandered to the far back corner of the library. Dust covered everything, a patina of cobwebs laced the shelves, and the skittering of mice could be heard. In the gloom he saw a door.

Dirt encrusted the frame and the bar locking it was rusted with age. Blazel shifted into his warrior form, and with his greater strength wrenched open the door. A dark, empty hole lay behind it. Blazel shifted back to human and crossed to a nearby reading table with a lantern on it. He grabbed the lantern and went back to the door. Holding the light before him, Blazel stepped through the door. Steps led down into the darkness, a thick layer of dust showing no one had come this way for a long time. The air smelled musty with age. Blazel descended, the lantern held high with one hand, the other hand brushing the wall.

Down and down he went until finally the steps ended. The light from his lantern formed a small circle around him, unable to penetrate the oppressive dark. Blazel discovered an old torch in a wall sconce and calling his fire to him, he lit it. There were more torches along the wall. He began to light them to reveal a huge room filled with old relics.

He touched an old staff and a weak pulse of magic thrummed from his hand to the staff. A fireball burst from it, sizzling for a moment before it disappeared. Blazel pulled back his tingling hand and the staff clattered to the ground.

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