Magemother: The Complete Series (A Fantasy Adventure Book Series for Kids of All Ages) by Austin J. Bailey

Author:Austin J. Bailey [Bailey, Austin J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-06-17T05:00:00+00:00

What moves the light? Hugo asked, mesmerized by the way they had seemingly stepped out of time. The bird was still just ten feet away. Everything seemed to have slowed down.

Truth, Molad said. The truth that all light is connected. His eyes glinted. Like the darkness…Light is here, and light is there, but there is only one Light, just as there is only one Darkness. It’s all the same light. It’s all the same darkness. Light is one. Darkness is one.

Molad closed his eyes and Hugo felt a subtle tipping, a shifting in the region of their middle. Molad took a single step, and then they were floating in the air. The bird was in their hands again, except they didn’t have hands. They didn’t have a body at all. Rather, everything felt like their body. The air itself swam across the surface of their body. The bird flew through it. They surrounded the bird, holding it tightly, and stepped back to the ground. They were back where they started, across from the little brook, and the quail was clamped firmly in Molad’s hand again.

Let it go, Hugo said. You’ve taught me what I wanted to learn, and you’ve had your fun.

Hugo felt their hand tighten around the bird, crushing it slowly. Molad smiled and dropped the bird’s body on the ground. Now I’ve had my fun.

Hugo blinked at the sudden return of power. His body tingled. It was his body again, and he never wanted to give it up again. He picked up the bird and walked back to the trail, where he built a small fire. He cleaned the quail with the small knife from his belt and then cooked it. He wasn’t hungry anymore, but at least now it hadn’t died for nothing. He finished the quail and doused the fire.

When he went to retrieve his sword, he found it covered in mud, so he wiped the blade on his shirt and proceeded to polish the gleaming emerald salamander on the hilt thoughtfully. The symbol of the Paradise kings. His family. His mind drifted over the long line of men who had held that name before him. What would they think of him now, the boy king who could not find his power, who had a darkness inside him that was more powerful than his own will?

Hugo’s eyes went wide. I have a devil inside me, he thought. How was he going to tell Brinley? He shook away the thought, sheathing his sword. What had happened was done. He would never let Molad have control again. He might as well make the best of it, though. There was no sense in ignoring the power that Molad had shared with him, the things he had learned.

He made his way back to the trail and focused on a distant point on the landscape. He tried to see it the way Molad had seen the quail. He took a single step, felt a tiny inkling of the turning around his middle, and fell on his face in the dirt ten feet from where he’d started.

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