Cadet: Worldshard (The Sunder Shard Chronicles Book 1) by Cobolt Dragon

Author:Cobolt, Dragon [Cobolt, Dragon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Uruk Press
Published: 2018-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

I dreamed.

I dreamed, first, of the Eye: a swirling mass of souls, a ribbon of energy a hundred miles long and a hundred miles deep and a hundred miles across, roiling with untapped power. And yet, even as large as it was, the Eye was easily lost in the vastness of the Sunder, and would have been lost forever if it were not for the connection that drew minds into it when they slumbered. And for that reason, it was the center of the Sunder, the spoon that stirred this endless mass of chaos. It was the single point that made all navigation between the floating islands of reality possible. Korvosa may drift, but the Eye would always be there.

Every time eyes closed and the soul left the body for sleep, a mind raced there, to the place where the Endwar ended and reality was torn apart with it.

My soul was no different. That was the beauty of Champions, wasn’t it?

At first, I was buffeted left and right. The currents confused me, and the noises gave me a headache. My spectral eyes searched around for anything familiar, but all I saw was chaos and the thin- ribbon shapes of dream-minds and souls of the dead, intermingling and conversing. The dead in the Eye were letting go, forgetting, and every night, they massed and clustered around their relatives. I saw those collections, heard the murmurs.

No souls came to me.

I continued floating out. Suddenly, an ephemeral squall blew around me. It pushed and shoved and I went hurtling away from the Eye. I shot through the Sunder, swimming frantically to avoid dreamwraiths and soulsprites. The normally incorporeal figures clutched and grabbed at me as I went past, taking advantage of my exiting the Eye.

Still, I swam. I had dipped into the Eye, into the mass of souls and memories that connected every human to their humanity despite the loss of reality itself. That was the tenacity that had kept our species alive (if only just.) With that dipper of mental and spiritual energy refilled – and the risk of forgetting my name and becoming a Nameless beast beaten back for the night – I continued on. I swam through the astral Sunder, dodging any predators seeking to devour my spirit. As a Champion, I was not as vulnerable here as a normal human would be – the armored focus of a dozen lifetimes made my soul brighter and sturdier than most.

After what felt like hours, I came to the end of my astral journey. I glanced back to check that my silvery tether remained uncut and undamaged. It was. The tether was the only way a human mind, even that of a Champion, could see the quantum entanglement that tied soul to body to Eye.

I looked forwards and saw where I had been pulled by some unknown desire. I floated at the edge of a bubble of reality, through the thin, filmy seam that separated the Sunder from the reality, I could see the purple-marble of the Worldshard.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.