Magic's Genesis- Reckoning by Rosaire Bushey

Author:Rosaire Bushey [Bushey, Rosaire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-29T22:00:00+00:00

14-Karjan’s Ring

It should have been silent in the cave, but the screams of the beast and those trapped in its mouth did not immediately leave Hokra alone. Their cries dimmed slowly in his ears as he made his way deep into the cave where pure darkness reined. Even for his eyes, there was little to see by. With a brief flicker of blue, a small sphere floated above his head and he sent it forward to see what lie in front of him.

If he expected traps, he found none. If he thought there were creatures in wait, they did not attack. Slowly through the blue-tinged darkness he walked, following the lone path until it opened onto a chamber where the small orb’s light caught the familiar sparkle of gems.

Hokra looked around from the edge of the tunnel and took his first cautious step into the chamber. The space was lit by a warm orange light whose source Hokra could not find and in front of him was a short distance of paved stone followed by a moat that looked as if it could be crossed with a running jump. There was also a single bridge over the moat, and he walked toward it with something like frustration tugging at his senses, causing him to look at everything he saw as an enemy, an obstacle to be dealt with. Reaching the bridge, he smirked recognizing the familiar pattern of gem planks he had crossed earlier - red, green, aquamarine, blue, amethyst, and diamond.

Annoyed, Hokra dismissed the bridge and attempted to fly across the span, his magic propelling him forward until he stopped in mid-air, an unseen wall stopping his advance. His magic kept him above the bridge, but he realized that if anyone had tried to jump the pit they would have run into the wall and fallen to their deaths for the moat was not a simple container of water, it was a deep, even by the standards of creatures who lived underground. He could tell by the feel of the air that came up from the pit that falling would take a long time, and there would be no crawling back up.

Hokra landed again at the end of the bridge and reached out with his hands to feel the gem planks. As with the carpet in the shop of Abulet, the stones were alive, and they bade him continue to follow the aquamarine. Moving across the bridge, he noticed for the first time a tall obelisk of onyx standing in the exact center of the small dark island the moat surrounded. Hokra wrapped himself in a magic shield and touched the stone, letting his hand slide off the cold, dead surface. He knew climbing it would be pointless, so he raised himself from the ground to look at the very top of the obelisk. Where he had expected to find a point, he found instead that the obelisk was capped with a flat surface and resting upon it was a ring of black gold with a rectangular stone crossing four fingers and flowing like liquid fire.

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