Magenta Salvation by Piers Anthony & Kenneth Kelly

Author:Piers Anthony & Kenneth Kelly [Anthony, Piers & Kelly, Kenneth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781947381155
Publisher: Dreaming Big Publications
Published: 2019-07-12T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Coming Together

H elena considered the map. It seemed to cover everything but one thing: where were the other members of the party? They had scattered in four directions so as to be difficult to recapture, but this also made it difficult for them to reunite. What good was it knowing where things were if she didn't know where they were?

Well, she knew that Dale would have the holy dwarf city of Alfen Gulfadex in mind, and well might head for it. That was where she was most likely to find him. Then they could see about finding the others.

Unfortunately, now that she had decided, she discovered an obscurity in the map. The city was marked on it, but the route through the mountains was fuzzed out. It seemed that something did not want the route to be known, and the map reflected that. She would have to pick her own way through, and that could be mischief.

What would be would be. She paused to organize her facilities for a possibly dangerous trek. And felt something.

It was…it was the soft ambiance of someone she knew rather intimately. Green and purple, no, magenta. Magenta! The late Purp's sister, now to be the leader of the Kudgels, if she could just get them to obey her. A lovely, fine, compassionate person. Helena had lent her body for Magenta to animate when bidding farewell to her brother as he lay dying; that was why she knew the feel of the woman. She had, in effect, become Magenta for the occasion, and it had left an imprint on her soul. She believed in her, and trusted her. In an obscure but profound way, she loved Magenta.

If Magenta needed to borrow her body again, for some local purpose, she was welcome to it. Helena relaxed, letting the spirit take her.

And found herself transported not to another person, but another place. She recognized it: Dale's mansion in Upper Sultry. Which was far away. Was she imagining it?

Magenta was there, standing before her, her skin and eyes green, face hair, hands and feet purple, and utterly lovely. “Thank you for allowing me to bring you here, Helena,” Magenta said. “May I embrace you?”

Helena had to smile. “You have been closer to me than that.”

The woman hugged her. “I feel that I know you well, though our contacts have been peripheral. You are a good woman.”

“So are you. But how did you move me here?”

“I am still learning to use the magics I inherited from my brother. Among them is a teleportation stone. I had to reach you telepathically, which I could do when I tried, because there is now some of each of us in the other. We have, in a manner, become sisters. Then, I needed your acquiescence. When you granted that, I was able to draw on the power of the stone to bring you to me physically. Now, we can catch up on details and work together toward the common mission of saving our world.

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