Prophet: Bridge & Sword by JC Andrijeski

Author:JC Andrijeski [Andrijeski, JC]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: White Sun Press
Published: 2018-01-17T06:00:00+00:00

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MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS, PART 1

I’M NOT SURE how we ended up where we ended up.

It felt like I got led around in a daze, like people were talking to me but I couldn’t comprehend their words. Hands tugged on me gently, touching my arms, my shoulders, steering me along with the group. I felt Revik’s fingers wrapped around mine.

I don’t know if I blacked out, exactly––or even lost time, in a real sense.

Some part of me definitely wasn’t there, though.

When I could finally focus enough to listen or remember anything I saw, I was sitting on a blanket on the grass. Other blankets were spread around me, with seers sitting cross-legged and kneeling, sharing drinks and eating.

I heard them talking about Dubai.

I heard them talk about the buyer in Dubai, the one collecting seers from the Displacement Lists. I heard them talk about the Lists themselves––Lists that apparently my mother, as in my biological mother, who until now I hadn’t known existed, put in a bank vault in New York for me to find.

That information kept looping in my mind.

It looped and looped, meaningless in a way, yet somehow tangible enough that my mind couldn’t help but fixate on it as the most important thing. My mother had created or found or stolen the original Displacement Lists. She put them in a security deposit box in a bank in New York, knowing at some point, I’d dream about them and find them.

That meant she’d put the book there, too––the book no one could read.

I hadn’t thought about that book in a long time. I didn’t even know where it was.

For all I knew, it’d been destroyed in one of the tsunamis that hit the hotel in New York, or got lost during the evacuations.

I stared at the sand, fighting to think through this, to make it mean something.

I felt Revik’s fingers on my skin and looked at him, unable to comprehend his presence next to me. We more or less filled a clearing I didn’t remember entering, one that stood just behind a broken row of palm trees separating us from the beach.

I could see the ocean between the curved, graceful trunks.

It could have been one of my dreams, sitting here, staring at a roiling ocean.

Revik sat beside me on the blanket, out legs touching, his hand still holding mine, almost too tight, the fingers of his other hand stroking my bare arm. I didn’t try to free myself, but I found myself staring at our locked hands, almost confused by them, and by the hand of his that stroked me, wearing my human father’s ring.

On my other side and slightly in front of me, the woman with the dark green eyes sat, drinking in my face in a way that made it hard to look at her. She and the man with the blond-streaked, wavy hair, stared at me like they didn’t know what to do with me, either.

The emotion coming off the two of them was more than I could bear.

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