Holmberg, D K - The Endless War 04 - Summoner's Bond by Holmberg D K

Author:Holmberg, D K [Holmberg, D K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2016-10-11T03:00:00+00:00

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Ciara

When I set my pieces, I knew I would need to utilize one who did not wish to return to the city, but Alena has long been nearly as strong a shaper as me. Had I known about her connection to the draasin before, I would have many other ways to use such a skill. I hope it is not too late to use her the way she will be needed.

—Lachen Rastan, Commander of the Order of Warriors

Ciara stood and hurried through the tower, moving quickly past each of the doors, counting them as she did. Shade had asked her to reach him on the third floor, but she would have to take a different stair. A cool breeze blew through the tower as if someone had left too many windows open, and a chill rolled through her, making her wish she still had the cloak she’d been given when she came to this tower.

Shade still hadn’t fully explained why her father had brought her here, other than to say that she would learn from the remnants of Rens, those last men and women who held onto the old ways.

Given what she’d seen of Shade, she wondered what his village had been like. For him to wear such thick wool, he would have to have come from some part of Rens much colder than where she had been, so near to the waste. But the style of clothing was the same, even if he never placed his shaiza over his face.

When she reached the stair, she hurried down, taking them two at a time, flying along as if her legs were made of feathers. The third floor. This was the first time Shade had asked her to come this way rather than having her follow him. Maybe it was a measure of his new trust. She had come to realize that he needed to trust her, that there was something that he’d been waiting for, but she didn’t know what she’d done that allowed him to now trust her.

She stopped at a door on the third floor and considered the carvings worked into the wood. There was something familiar about them, like a pattern that she should recognize, but she blinked away the thought. That wasn’t why she was here. She was here to understand what Shade could teach her. From what she’d seen, he had a different way of shaping, one that might be able to help her village against the threat of attacks, and wasn’t that the very reason that she’d come?

When she knocked, the door opened. Shade stood on the other side, two others already waiting. One was a younger man with a sun-darkened face and hair bleached nearly white. He glanced over at her and nodded once, almost as if he recognized her. Had she met him here already? The time that she’d been in Shade’s tower—at least, that was what she’d come to call it—she had a hard time remembering much of anything, probably because there had been so much to see.

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