Consensus Breaking (The Auran Chronicles Book 2) by M. S. Dobing

Author:M. S. Dobing [Dobing, M. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-05-08T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

Seb spent the next ten minutes with his jaw firmly dropped. As they walked back across the plaza his senses were subjected to a barrage of sights and sounds that he’d never imagined he’d ever see in this world.

Many of those there were Aware, their auras showing the slight shimmer of one in contact with the Weave. Others though, their differences were much more obvious. On one side of the square, hefting up a large stone boulder that was easily the size of a car, stood two humanoid creatures. They were brown skinned, easily seven-foot-tall, with arms like tree trunks and wide heads with flat noses and pure red eyes. They were terrifying in appearance, but people simply moved around them like water round a stone as they went about their business.

Further in, a group of children, no more than ten in age and number, sat in a half circle facing a wooden chair. They seemed rapt by something he couldn’t see. Focusing his sense, he saw the apparition that hovered before them, a woman, in her twenties, but just her astral form, nothing more.

More and more sights assailed him as he followed Cade. Brothers here and there, armed and watching the crowd with their wolf-like eyes. There were people from all walks of life, most of them from Earth, but several more from locations he could only guess at.

As they approached a large building with its own outer wall a man appeared from a road that seemed less maintained than the others. He was tall, nearly seven feet, with a wide chest and powerful arms. He was bald, his skin bare aside from a sprawl of scars that poured down one side of his body like molten lava. Seb could only watch, transfixed, as the man stopped in front of Cade.

His aura was white. He’d never seen white before.

‘Cade, we must talk,’ the man said, his voice like gravel.

‘Soon, let me take Seb to see Gough first.’

The man turned and seemingly noticed Seb for the first time. His milk-white eyes widened, and Seb felt the familiar tingle as someone tried to sense through his shield.

‘A mage.’ The term was not said with warmth.

‘Shimmer, this is Seb, he’s the one I told you about.’

Shimmer stepped closer. He was even more intimidating at this distance. He towered above Seb, emitting an aura that screamed power.

‘I know you, at least I know of you,’ Seb said, a memory suddenly popping to mind.

‘We have never met,’ Shimmer growled.

‘No, but someone I met asked about you,’ Seb looked to the ground. What was it? Where had he heard the name? He ploughed through his memories, alighting at last on the required one. A moment he’d long since tried to forget.

‘Woden. Woden asked for you,’ he said quietly.

Shimmer’s nostrils flared and he sucked in a deep intake of breath. Seb winced, expecting some kind of outburst, not that he knew why. When nothing came, he looked up with one eye.

‘You met Woden?’ Shimmer said, the barely-suppressed aggression subsiding a little.

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