Nordstrom Necromancer: A New Adult Dark Fantasy Inspired By Norse Mythology by Amy B. Nixon

Author:Amy B. Nixon [Nixon, Amy B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amy B. Nixon
Published: 2020-10-20T05:00:00+00:00

A Change Of Heart

I woke up to muted light coming from a nightstand, but I wasn’t in my room. This one had extremely high ceilings with some strange wooden arches I couldn’t quite make out. My vision couldn’t focus that far, but at least it gave me confirmation I wasn’t near any Nøkk, which was all I could have hoped for.

When I tried to turn my head to the side, I nearly lost consciousness.

Blinking slowly and applying the good old Pilates breathing techniques, I managed to gain control of my body. My eyes made out a human silhouette sitting nearby. The nightstand lamp’s light reflected off his golden hair, but the rest was a black blur.

I closed my eyes, inhaled, then opened them again. One by one, all smudges and shadows scattered, revealing what was probably the last person I expected to see.

Dann Nordstrøm.

“Hey, troublemaker.”

He spoke with a grim tone, perfectly matching the look on his face. I tried to sit up, but my limbs had other plans. Heavy and leaden, they refused to obey.

“Be careful. Your body’s been in a vegetative state for eighteen hours. You were scratched by a Nøkken, and her paralytic poison hasn’t fully left your system.”

“If you…” My voice came out surprisingly wheezy. I breathed in and swallowed. “If you’ve come here to… personally scold me… for endangering your precious sister’s life… You should know it wasn’t my idea… to go spying on… Ariel and her fucking kin.”

His mouth curved to the side in a woeful smile.

“You’re on a deathbed and still making jokes. No, I’ve come here to thank you for saving my sister’s life. Frankly, I can’t imagine if she had died and we couldn’t…” He paused and inhaled deeply. “I wouldn’t be able to live with myself if I lost her.”

My familiar sibling jealousy returned, but a moment later Aurora’s friend rushed into my mind.

“Dann… the other girl–”

“Is lost,” he interrupted me before I could explain.

He didn’t say dead. He said lost. I remembered the inscription in the stone. En mann er ikke død med mindre hans sjel går tapt. A man is not dead unless his soul is lost.

“Forsand is built over an area with intersecting ley lines. By the time we reached the site, her spirit had left Midgard along with her soul. We couldn’t do much for her, except restore her body to one piece and send it home to her parents.”

I tried to imagine Gabriella being actually soulless, not just acting like a soulless drama queen. Then I heard Aurora’s voice.

Do it now! Pull the waters away from the shore, and we can save her! You’re an Elemental, for fuck’s sake! Do it now!

“Aurora… she said we could save her,” I mumbled, guiltily looking at my fingers. “She told me… as an Elemental, I could–”

“You couldn’t have done anything.”

His gratitude over me saving Aurora’s life obviously blinded him to a point where he thought I was innocent. For some reason, realizing this only made me feel guiltier.

“It was my fault,” I muttered under my nose.

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