Prophecy's Promise (Prophecy of the Edges Book 1) by Lauren Amundson

Author:Lauren Amundson [Amundson, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-04-24T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

We zoomed down glass-smooth roads a hundred times faster than the fastest racehorse I had ever seen, arriving at the Flight Field, a distance that should have taken hours, in less than fifteen minutes. I focused toward the horizon as best I could and didn’t feel any loco-sickness this time. As unnerving as my two rides in the locomobiles had been, the flight carriage was much scarier. A gigantic and ornately carved wooden box, a hundred yards long, was dwarfed by the enormous beige oval balloon above that bulged around the ropes holding it to the ground. Bahlym ushered me to a chair by a window inside the wooden box and helped me fasten a safety harness across my lap. “It won’t be long,” Bahlym assured me as he settled into a seat facing mine.

I gripped the leather armrests as the flight carriage ascended into the sky. The grass field grew tinier and tinier as we gained altitude. The people became ant-size and then too small to notice. Bahlym coaxed me into conversation. Talking helped keep my mind off the unnatural method of travel.

For over an hour, we swapped stories of our worlds. I enlightened Bahlym with a brief overview of the history and customs of my land. In turn, I learned that their Slice was smaller than mine from a landmass perspective, but not by much. They were one united Empire ruled by a Council elected from among the upper class, all of whom had military titles and basic Warrior training. While only a few had military roles, all the leaders were technically in the military. The Council itself was governed in part by a general. A position appointed by the Council, and once selected, you served for life.

And he told me about all their Mist-Channeled devices. The energy was from converted Mist Power. Factories lined with row after row of workers wove the Mist into little boxes which would then be used to control machines. They’d taken the concept of Mist Fortification and extended it exponentially. I wondered who had been that first Scholar to discover that Mist could be harnessed this way.

Uniting these two cultures surly would be amazing. Those in our culture without Mist Ability could purchase the Mist Power, and in turn, we could trade with them our art and textiles. And this was only two of six Slices. There are four more Slices full of surprises and different people out there waiting to be discovered. We could take the best of each world and form a new society: a global, united culture.

As we spoke, the pockets of population we passed began to get thicker and more frequent. Bahlym patiently explained the purpose of everything within sight. Over the horizon, I could see spikes of buildings stretching toward the sky. Bahlym said that there were as many as one hundred levels on top of each other. It made the impressive towers of the castle back home seem like trinkets a child had erected. Clumps

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