Five Kingdoms: Book 07 - Wizard Falling by Toby Neighbors

Author:Toby Neighbors
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Publisher: Mythic Adventure Publishing
Published: 2014-03-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

Zollin heard her voice but he couldn’t see her in the darkness. He let his light shine, but there was nothing for the light to reflect off of. He didn’t know how he had gotten into the void he found himself in, but the world had become a great expanse of nothingness.

“Zollin!” the voice said again, this time with greater urgency.

His eyes fluttered and he realized he’d had them closed the whole time he thought he was looking around. Now he could see the stone walls pressing in. He squirmed, but he couldn’t move. He was trapped. He tried to shuffle backward, but it was no use.

“Oh, Zollin,” cried the voice. It was full of pain and distorted by sobs, but he recognized it. He would have recognized that voice anywhere.

“Brianna?”

“Why have you given up?”

“What? I don’t know what’s happening.”

He struggled some more, but the stones were unmovable. Fear rose up inside him and threatened to push him over the edge of sanity. He wanted to scream and had to choke back tears.

“You have to come back to me, Zollin. I’ve lost so much. I don’t want to lose you.”

“You aren’t,” he said, but there was no confidence in his voice.

“Don’t give up,” she said.

He struggled again, but this time there was no resistance. He rolled across the stone floor and when he looked up he saw the archway only a few steps ahead of him. He looked back but there was nothing but a long, open corridor. He struggle to his knees and rubbed his eyes. He couldn’t believe what he was seeing. How had he come out of the tiny, narrow space? Where was the tunnel now? He used his light to search for an opening but there wasn’t one.

“I’m okay,” he said out loud, his voice echoing off the stone walls.

He felt a little silly talking in such an isolated place, but he was certain Brianna was nearby. He had heard her voice. He had spoken to her. He was certain about that.

“Brianna?” he said. “Where are you?”

There was no answer. He wanted to scream, but instead he just raised his voice a little.

“Brianna? Are you there?”

Silence filled the long, empty corridor. He wanted to cry. He missed her so much, but it must have been a dream. He realized he must have been under some type of spell and only imagining the tunnel was closing in on him. He wanted to scream, he was tired of being in the underworld. But he wasn’t finished yet.

He got to his feet and his head felt light. He dug in his pack and found some bread crumbs in the bottom. He didn’t care if they were covered in mold, he ate them anyway and drank almost all of his water.

It will all be over soon, he told himself.

Then he went through the archway. There were more stairs, but instead of the wide, curving staircase, these stairs were broad and led straight down into a large cavern. There were stalactites and stalagmites near the walls, but the central part of the cavern was open.

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.