ETCH by J. A. L. Solski

Author:J. A. L. Solski
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JALS Books

Chapter 39

She stomped heavily around the room, ransacking, like a burglar upending a home. She shuffled through papers, and opened containers. She found a few maps, she took one that appeared to be of the Vozrek Mountains, and another that looked like the depths of Lake Mara. She found a large cross body hunting bag, in a chest at the end of the working table. She filled it with the things she found in the room which now lacked privacy. Her bag was soon filled with the maps, two long and thin knives, a small telescopic glass, a rope, a blanket, a piece of flint, and a few smooth stones from the working table. She did not know what these smooth stones were for, she just wanted to take everything out of this stupid secret room.

Why was it a secret anyways? Nothing seems that special? Ilva thought. As she thought this, the smooth stones in her bag clunked together slightly, they thrummed with power when they touched. Ilva did not notice. She was ready to leave. Leaving home this time was not as easy. It should have been. Now, she felt she had no reason to stay. Yet she did not move from the room.

She looked all around it. Gazed at the one secret her tiny village held. This one place that her eyes had never touched, soaked in her surroundings until she felt satisfied, she had seen all that was here. She wandered out of the room and Vali was not there. Ilva wandered the rest of the house, taking in memories, some of which now hurt her. Ilva ached over the loss she just endured. She avoided looking at her mother’s body, she wanted to pretend it wasn’t even there. The vision remained in her mind however, and she would never remove the memory of her mother’s death from her mind. Every room held some memory of her mother and her. Ilva walked to a room between the study and the kitchen, the room she once slept in, and turned the handle.

The door was locked. Still fueled with adrenaline and despair, she decided to just break the damned door down. She walked back a few paces, gave herself the hardest push off, and propelled herself into the door with all she had. It splintered at the handle, and flung wide open, banging off a shelf and wobbling on it’s now bent hinges.

Ilva walked into an entirely new room from the one she had known. It was another study of sorts, only this one had a single round table, with a map, and a box upon it. The map looked like it showed all of Zoriya, as well as other continents across the sea she had never before heard of. She opened the lid of the small box, and inside were letters. Many letters. From Dola. Ilva fingered through to the oldest one and read it.

Lord Ediv,

It has come to our knowledge that you may be in possession of two artifacts.

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