Holmberg, D K - The Cloud Warrior Saga 11 -Cycle of Fire by Holmberg D K

Author:Holmberg, D K [Holmberg, D K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2017-03-28T07:00:00+00:00

15

Return to the Mountains

Tan rode on Wasina as they traveled toward Ethea. The draasin caught currents of air, rising high over the ground as she did, soaring first up and then back down, her massive wings barely beating against the sky.

Two of the hatchlings flew alongside him. They were growing quickly, their bodies growing so that they were nearly the size of Enya when she’d been freed from the ice. In time, Tan could tell that they would be similar in size to Sashari. Not as enormous as Asgar or Asboel, but still giant creatures.

Amia and Alanna rode with him. They were the reason he didn’t shape himself toward Ethea, choosing instead to take the draasin, knowing that shaping all three of them would have been possible but it wouldn’t have been as interesting a trip. This way, he could see the ground spread beneath him and he could watch as the sea changed over to Incendin and then over to the kingdoms.

As they did, Tan nudged Wasina to turn slightly north.

“I thought we were going back to Ethea,” Amia said.

“We will. There’s something I want to revisit first,” he said as he pointed. The soft glow to his skin had receded. It was still there if he looked, but for the most part, it took someone who knew him well to notice.

They soared ever higher, eventually reaching a series of rising mountain peaks. Green trees rose along the sides, that of pine and oak and some elm, the fragrance filling the air. Tan could almost imagine that all of this had been shaped. Maybe it was the vantage, that of flying near the clouds, but he imagined some great shaper pulling the mountains and trees from the ground, much like he had done with the beginning of the tree in the cavern.

Wasina knew where Tan wanted to go, and she guided him toward one of the peaks. As they flew, Tan felt a strange tingling, one that reminded him of the barrier that once had separated the kingdoms from Incendin. Far below, he could see the glittering water of the lake leading toward the mountain, and he could feel the drawing of the elementals, though they weren’t as strong now as they once had been.

The place of convergence had suffered much over the last few years. After centuries left untouched, now it had been tampered with, not only by Tan, but by the lisincend and by the shapers of Par-shon, eventually being left alone. There was still a wildness to it, something unrefined, and in many ways, different than the convergences he’d discovered in other places.

“What is it?” Amia asked.

“This was once a powerful convergence.”

“I remember.”

“No, before that. When Ethea was first formed, they changed the landscape, and that shifted the convergence, pulling it toward the capital.”

Many things have changed, Alanna sent.

I’m not certain this should have changed.

The Mother exists in both places. Nothing was destroyed.

Tan stared at the ground, considering. He had long thought that drawing the convergence away from here had damaged things in some way, but that wasn’t the lesson he’d been learning.

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