Essence of Chaos by Marie Andreas

Author:Marie Andreas [Andreas, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781951506056
Publisher: MARIE ANDREAS
Published: 2020-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

19

The next month flew by for Jenna. She studied harder than she ever had in her life, even preparing for her final papers in graduate school. Her echo had eventually come back, but it didn’t respond to much in Irundail. Most likely the former mindslave had never been this far north.

Jenna also began training with Armsmaster Garlan. The half-breed kelar-human took to her right away—once she’d proven she had some basic training. She seemed to do best with bow and knife, but was also working on the sword. She shocked the entire castle by designing and using a weight set to help her build strength for fighting and drawing the long bow. Soon, her methods were being surreptitiously copied throughout the castle.

Storm’s strength came back with agonizing slowness. Actually, it was agonizing for him, but Jenna was glad that her friend couldn’t get out of his room. Their visits were strained as Storm’s need for revenge, and his frustration at being physically trapped by his own body, became obsessions.

Keanin had become Jenna’s only stable influence. The flashy kelar was always outrageous and managed to do quite well at lifting her spirits. But he’d found no clues as to the whys of Ravenhearst’s appearance. No one in the castle had seen the nobleman in Irundail, and however he got here, it wasn’t with the rescue beacon. Jenna thought she had seen him twice more, but she couldn’t get close enough to be certain.

“Forget it.” Jenna slammed her fist on the desk. As if injuring herself would make the spell she was working on any easier to learn.

“Now, I told you this wouldn’t be easy.” Like the others, Ghortin’s temper was getting short. He still hadn’t been able to figure out how far his memory could be trusted, so he had to rely on the memories of others and hope he wasn’t missing too much. It was making him more testy than usual. “You have got to hold it steady; if you don’t, the whole thing will blow up in your face. Try it again.”

Jenna growled at her internal tormentor. The lessons had been getting, in her opinion, entirely too advanced.

The one they were working on now, for instance. It was supposed to enable her to stun everyone within a fifty-foot perimeter. Used correctly, it would make a mighty weapon. But one slip up and she could end up turning all that Power on herself. As she found out yesterday, the mildest result of such action was being blasted unconscious and waking up with a headache that went down to her toes. That she was still nursing the remnants of that same headache didn’t improve her spirits. And Ghortin showed no pity at all.

“Look, isn’t there something less dangerous that I could work on?” She didn’t care that she was whining. “My head is killing me, and you said yourself that this isn’t a spell to be taken lightly.”

Ghortin gave a mental sigh. “I usually wouldn’t be so adamant, but I fear that even this spell may not be enough in the times to come.

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