Hidden Magic: A Ley Line World Urban Fantasy Adventure (Relic Guardians Book 2) by Victoria DeLuis & Meg Cowley

Author:Victoria DeLuis & Meg Cowley [DeLuis, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jolly Creative Atelier
Published: 2017-07-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Kaie was right, there were things I needed to learn, and the monk's world was as good a place as any to learn them. Better. Ben and Mr Davenport couldn't find me, and I was as safe as I could hope to be.

For days, I woke up at sunrise and went to bed at sunset. I worked with Kaie to control my powers, while Dawa brought me food and laughed at my efforts.

I learnt that ley lines circled the Earth — invisible lines of power that provided a source of magic for those who could call it. Magicai, which somehow, thanks to the stone, I now was.

Cool, in a way, but also terrifying. My head swam with possibilities. How much of the world lay within arm’s reach that I’d never seen? It was amazing to discover everything that lay hidden and inaccessible to those without the power to see them. Things I'd never even dreamed of as possible.

Not all Magicai, it seemed, were able to become Travellers. Just as Ordinaries — non-magical humans — failed to see the magic in the ley lines, most Magicai failed to see the doorways hidden at the points where ley lines converged. Those that could were called Travellers. In the museum, the Cintamani Stone had granted me the power of both a Magicai and a Traveller, and I'd opened a doorway to an alternate reality.

"Each world is different, but the same," Kaie had said. "One decision made, one road taken or not taken. When these differences occur close to an intersection of ley lines, the world branches in two, and each branch follows a new path."

The whole Buddhist philosophy was that the world had been created over and over again, a million times a second. With such a philosophy, it was easy to see how Kaie readily embraced the concept of alternate worlds. For me, at first, it was hard to take in, but it was surprising what I was coming to believe, and it brought a smile to my face to think that out there, in a large number of worlds, my parents could still be alive. Maybe one day, I would see them again.

New Lhasa stood where New York stood in my world. I’d travelled through the portal to the exact same location I’d left. In Kaie's world, the Tibetan Empire had extended during the eleventh century, and slowly encroached on the world. America was known as Bardo Dewachen: The In Between State of the Pure Land. Peace prevailed, and the Magicai were an open and valued part of society. As the only Magicai in the temple and a fully ordained monk, Kaie had immense respect and power amongst his people. In other worlds, the Magicai were feared. They lived in secret societies, hidden amongst the Ordinaries, afraid to show their true nature for fear of persecution.

I briefly wondered if Zoe Stark was a Magicai in hiding. That would explain her reaction to my questions.

The monks had taken me in and welcomed me as one of their own.

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