elemental 06 - the best man by ladd larissa

Author:ladd, larissa [ladd, larissa]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2015-03-08T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

DYLAN GAZED INTO A SILVER bowl filled with water, concentrating on the slightly rippling surface and clearing his mind of everything going on around him. Aira and Aiden were doing investigative work of their own—out on the streets of Kyoto, talking to people, trying to understand what was going on, trying to get a lock on the elemental who they were after. There was a fire elemental whom the Elders insisted was dangerous; young, coming into his full potential before he reached physical maturity, his parents deceased. Dylan wasn’t trying to track the individual down with the scrying bowl—with a fire alignment, it would be difficult to get a psychic lock on the boy himself. But he could use the natural clairvoyance that came with his elemental energy to discover what he could about the incidents the Elders had mentioned. If Aira and Aiden could locate the elemental, Dylan would be of use in subduing him—but they had to get a lay of the land first and understand the situation as best as they could. Aira’s air-aligned facility for languages and her innate ability to compel answers out of people she spoke to had been a big benefit to his and Aiden’s work.

Dylan closed his eyes for a moment. He was starting to get better at divination, using the right tools for his element and practicing the methods that Lorene’s books and her own lessons had given him—but it was sometimes easier for him to follow his empathetic senses rather than his clairvoyance. He focused down, opening his mind to the flow of water, slipping his fingers into the bowl and stirring the water around as if searching for something sliding and slithering in the liquid. He felt a frisson of cold fear and opened his eyes, looking down into the bowl. He saw a house in flames, people screaming in terror—the fire had erupted seemingly from nowhere, the old material lighting in the middle of the night. It was clear to Dylan in a flash what had happened: The boy, coming into his powers, had fallen asleep in the old building, curled up somewhere he thought was safe. Power had surged through him—just as it had surged through his older brother during Aiden’s adjustment to his abilities—and the boy had not known how to contain it.

Dylan sighed sadly, withdrawing his fingers from the water and sitting back. The boy would be just as terrified as the people who had to hastily evacuate. He would be a difficult elemental to track, running constantly. But if he was trying to avoid sleeping, he would be easier to flush out when they did locate him; and Dylan thought that if he’d started more than a couple of fires in his sleep, the boy probably was trying to avoid going to bed, terrified that he would do it again. Fearful elementals were dangerous in their own way—but they were much less dangerous, typically, than those who delighted in their excessive, uncontrolled power.

It had been a month since the visit to his mother’s house.

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