Broken of Fire by D. K. Holmberg

Author:D. K. Holmberg [Holmberg, D. K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2016-08-13T04:00:00+00:00

15

A Request of Maelen

Tan settled into his seat near the fire in the library. Amia sat across from him, flipping through the pages of one of the books she’d pulled from the shelves, attempting to appear as if she really had interest in anything that she saw on the page. Tan simply stared at the flames, occasionally shaping them, but for the most part letting the fire flicker as it chose.

The draasin settled on his lap. She shifted, lifting her head before moving in a tight circle to find a comfortable spot, and then set her head down on his legs. Tan patted her on the top of the head, noting the softness of her spikes. They had softened in the time since she’d been born. What else would change with her? How much change could she handle before she became something other than a draasin?

She unfolded her wings—wings that were so small and stunted for her body—and flicked them at him. Not so much to attempt to fly, but more out of something like annoyance as she tried to smack him.

Tan chuckled and patted her again.

Amia looked up, folding the book down in her lap. “When did you intend to tell me that you’d summoned them?”

Tan sighed and rested his hands on the draasin. She pressed through his steepled hands, thrusting her snout so that she could see. “I should have.”

Amia nodded. “You think to unburden yourself.”

Tan nodded. “That, and more.”

Amia flicked her eyes to the draasin and frowned. She stared at the hatchling for a moment and then turned her attention back to Tan. “She is more… aware… than I would have expected.”

Tan glanced at the hatchling. She licked her lips and then started running her tongue over him as well, leaving a sticky residue that he’d discovered didn’t come off easily. Most of the time, he wiped it on his cloak, but he’d taken that off when coming into the library, so he wiped it on his pants and his shirt.

“She is,” Tan agreed. “And each day she grows even more so.”

“Was it like that with Honl?”

“Honl made a point of disappearing for a while,” Tan said. Really, he’d made a point of disappearing all the time, but Tan couldn’t blame him for that. Honl had needed to understand what he was meant to be, and that required that he learn what spirit had in store for him. How much longer would he remain away? And how much would he have changed by the time he eventually made it back? Tan had little doubt that his bonded wind elemental would eventually make his way back, but when? What would it take for him to decide to return?

“This one… I can sense something about her.”

“Spirit,” Tan said. “She connects to it. Or shapes it. I’m not sure which it is, only that I’m aware of when she does.”

Does it matter which, Maelen? Is the end result not the same?

I can shape, and I can connect to the elementals to access their strength.

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