Lightgiver by Gama Ray Martinez

Author:Gama Ray Martinez
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2016-06-27T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

For several long heartbeats, Jez just stared at her, only dimly aware of everyone else doing the same thing. Mirel cocked her head, seemingly unable to understand their shock. Jez tried to speak, but his mouth had gone dry, and it took a few seconds for him to work moisture back into it.

“Can we do that?”

“Of course. Why would you not be able to?”

He glanced at Linala, but she seemed content to let him speak. She had spoken of being able to summon the fires of the abyss, so obviously, beings weren’t the only things that could be summoned, but an entire library?

“But Gayel put the library there. We can’t stand up to the power of a high lord of the pharim.”

“You’re forgetting the fact that Gayel is a pharim.”

“No,” Jez said. “I don’t think I am. That’s the problem.”

Mirel narrowed her eyes. “The library was built by humans. He could skirt the rules in taking it because the library was about to be destroyed, but he cannot stop a human from calling it back. That would be interfering with mortal choice, and he would not be capable of that if he wished to be.”

“How would we do such a thing?” Linala asked.

Mirel raised an eyebrow. “The same way you would summon anything else. You know its name. You know where it is located. Craft a ritual and summon it.”

She gaped at the afur. “I have no idea how to craft a circle powerful enough to summon something as massive as a library...” Her voice trailed off, and she looked to Jez. “What was it made of?”

“What?”

“The library. What was it made of?”

The question caught Jez off guard, and it took him a second to gather his thoughts.

“Stone, I think. I didn’t really pay attention to the walls.”

“Yellow stone,” Mirel supplied. “There was a fair bit of iron in the structure as well.”

“Stone and metal.” She spoke more to herself than to anyone else, but she looked up at Jez. “How many floors?”

Jez gave Mirel a helpless look, and she smiled. “Four stories up and two below ground level.”

It went on like that for a long time with Mirel patiently answering whatever Linala asked as she tried to puzzle out the construction of the proper circle. Jez wondered why Mirel didn’t craft the working, but when he asked, she pointedly reminded him that she wasn’t a human and that Gayel would have no trouble stopping anything she did.

It wasn’t long before Linala realized they would need a circle far bigger than the ones they had in this room, and this was no mere task that would take a few hours. To further exacerbate the situation, there was nowhere to put a new building of that size, and space would have to be made. As for the circle itself, it would have to encompass the entire Academy.

At Balud’s command, the Academy was emptied, though few knew why. Then, a few trusted students aided the masters in the construction of the massive circle.

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