Holmberg, D K - The Lost Prophecy 05 - The Lost City by Holmberg D K

Author:Holmberg, D K [Holmberg, D K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2017-07-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

Jakob inhaled deeply, smelling the sharp, almost bitter scent of the interior of the mineshaft. He had shifted here, bringing Anda with him, traveling so that he could discover more about the teralin before he departed the city and went north. The entire mine had a heat to it, a sense of almost unnatural warmth that radiated, filling the cavern with heat. He had never experienced anything quite like this.

“Is there teralin in the daneamiin lands?” Jakob asked Anda.

Her face was unreadable, and she had removed the glamour, no longer trying to conceal her features. Deep within the mountain beneath Vasha, there was no need for her to hide and no need for her to be anything other than daneamiin.

“We have nothing quite like this.”

“Endric thinks that teralin is a part of creation.”

Anda touched the wall, trailing her fingers along the warm surface. The tunnels were slightly irregular, not smooth stone carved from the mountain itself like the palace overhead. These were mined by men and carried with them the appearance of that.

“Everything is a part of creation. This metal is as much a part of creation as the forest in my lands.”

“What about the pool?”

Anda smiled. “You have detected something unique about the pool?”

“I detected the power that is present there. The ahmaean seems focused there, more focused than in other parts of the forest. I thought the trees and the house of the Cala maah would be the focus of ahmaean in your lands, but that didn’t seem to be the case.”

“Why would you expect otherwise? Water supports life, and the water feed the trees, and the grasses, and provides nourishment for the people. It should not be surprising that water is what gives the daneamiin power.”

They stopped in a large chamber. Alcoves were carved into the stone, and though they were empty, it appeared that they had once stored many items here. Heat radiated from the walls the same as it did in other places within the mine, but there was a slightly lessened sense of it here. Jakob pushed out his ahmaean, sending it into the teralin within the walls, and detected a surge of power in response. The walls took on a faint glow, the pale yellow light that reminded him of when Novan used his staff.

Alriyn had described the difference between the polarities of teralin but had only had positively charged teralin to demonstrate. Jakob had seen Deshmahne swords, and knew the negatively charged teralin that they used, but didn’t know whether there was anything more to it, anything that he should try to understand better.

“I wonder why teralin collects and holds ahmaean,” Jakob said.

“Ahmaean cannot be contained, Jakob Nialsen. It can be transferred, but while water supports life, ahmaean is what gives life, gives power. Ahmaean is the purest representation of what the Maker has given.”

Jakob withdrew his ahmaean, pulling it back and away from the walls.

“What did you hope to see here?” Anda asked.

Jakob sighed. “I wanted to understand what the conflict was about.

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