Bone Yard: Book 2 of The Aspect Wars by Jesse Sprague

Author:Jesse Sprague [Sprague, Jesse]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-11-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Once they’d all rested, Nightshade inspected the room. Lem and Nightshade moved the stone slab while Flynt sulked by Cyniel’s bones. But as the slab moved aside, Flynt drifted over. The room inside was unlit except by the little light that trickled in from the outer room. If any part of Ieyil had been conscious, she would have been trapped here in the dark.

A light flared from Nightshade’s hand as she walked up beside Flynt. They’d walked about halfway into the chamber and with light, the walls seemed made of metal blocks rather than stone. Each block bore a sigil, much like the Death Wards in the outer room. Flynt tried to tug on Death-aspect and found nothing. It was as if she’d been cut free.

“No one who used Death-aspect could cast here,” Flynt said. In fact, Flynt felt weaker standing there, as if strength were being leached out of her. Breathing was difficult.

“That is the point. This was meant to be Ieyil’s eternal home, except it was not.” Nightshade motioned to two manacles that had been pounded into the walls. The wall between them was slightly discolored in the relative shape of a body. A pile of cloth lay on the stones below the manacles.

“I have to get out of here,” Flynt said, turning to flee the room. She felt a little less like she was drowning out in the main chamber, but she felt Ieyil’s burial chamber behind her like a black hole trying to pull her in and drink her.

Ieyil had been here, her corpse chained in death. Flynt could almost see her bones hanging, waiting, waiting, waiting, a red glow pouring from the eye sockets. How had she gotten free? The runes guarding the room felt heavy on Flynt’s shoulders and she doubted she could do so much as raise a fly. Nor were there any flies to raise—the room was swept clean.

If only Azucena were here. Her friend would have known more about all of this. But for now, Flynt didn’t even have her glove with the emeralds that had been on Azucena when she died. Any answers would need to come from Flynt.

She wanted to inspect more, but Lem called out to her from the door marked with Life sigils.

“Flynt! Nightshade found a way to open the door.”

Giving one last look at Ieyil’s resting place, Flynt turned around and headed over to the others.

Flynt and Lem stood back as Nightshade faced the door. She trembled visibly as her fingers moved around the edge of the door. Her hand settled over the Aspect mark—a symbol from within the Life school.

“This is the key,” Nightshade said, tracing the sigil on the left hand of the door.

“To opening the door?” Flynt asked. That didn’t make a lot of sense. Then again, she’d never seen sigils like these.

“Watch. I will demonstrate.” Nightshade held her hand steadily in front of the sigil. A pulse of Aspect flowed off of her palm into the sigil on the wall and the one of the lintel.

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