Lightbringer by Frankie Robertson

Author:Frankie Robertson [Frankie Robertson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781467900102
Goodreads: 13072792
Publisher: Castle Rock Publishing
Published: 2011-10-12T13:00:00+00:00

Jared clenched his jaw on a hot spike of anger. Maybe he shouldn’t have said anything, but he couldn’t let Cassie go on thinking less of herself because of that selfish prick. Jerk was too nice a word for Andy. The bastard had lied to Cassie and betrayed the trust of someone he should have cherished and protected. The man should be pilloried. What a shame that punishment was no longer in fashion.

It wasn’t that he wished Andy harm. No. Just a little justice.

He got into the car and pulled back onto the road. They had another two hours of driving ahead of them, but first he stopped at the 24 Hour Mini-Mart and picked up a couple of disposable phones.

“So why Pinetop?” Cassie asked, after leaving a message on Linda’s voice mail with her new number. “Wouldn’t it be easier to hide in Phoenix?”

Jared shook his head. “We’re not trying to hide, just buy enough time to prepare. There are places of Power around Pinetop. Power I’ll need to defeat Aelziroth.”

“I thought Sedona was the place with all those vortexes.”

“It is, but Aelziroth can use them as easily as I can. The ones around Pinetop won’t be of any use to him.

“How are they different?”

“The ones in Sedona are…I guess you could call them natural. Undifferentiated. They’re remnants of Power from when the world formed. Anyone can use them. The ones in Pinetop are leftovers too, but they’ve been reshaped by thousands of years of worship.”

“By Native Americans?”

“Yes. It’s the intention behind the worship that matters, not the form. All prayers are heard, if they come from a true heart.”

“That’s good to know. How come you don’t tell everybody? It would solve a lot of the world’s problems if you did.”

That was a question long debated among Celestials, and Jared had sided with the faction that had not been among the majority. “The short answer is that to convince people, we’d have to reveal what we are or we’d just be another group of fanatics shouting on the corner. And exposing our true nature is forbidden.”

“Why?”

“Providing proof would hamper the exercise of free will.” He couldn’t keep the tone of repeating an oft-rehearsed lesson out of his voice.

Cassie considered him for a moment. “But you don’t agree?”

Jared hesitated. “No. I don’t.”

“So why don’t you tell? Can they stop you?”

“They most assuredly can. But more than that, such a choice would lead me down the same path as that taken by Aelziroth.”

Cassie shuddered at the memory of Aelziroth’s hate-filled gaze. “I can’t imagine you ever being like that.”

“Thank you,” Jared said softly.

“Why can’t Aelziroth use those realigned power thingies you mentioned?”

Jared clenched his teeth. Aelziroth had been a friend once, but that had been long ago, even by Celestial reckoning. “He turned from the Light,” he said tightly. “He can’t use that which is attuned to it.”

“So he is a demon.”

Jared snorted. Celestials didn’t use that term either, but he said, “He’d probably like being called that.”

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