Proven (Daughters of the Sea #5) by Kristen Day

Author:Kristen Day [Day, Kristen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-06-07T23:00:00+00:00

FALLON

The twisting had stopped, although the coiling in my stomach had not. Nausea welled up inside my throat as I suppressed the overwhelming urge to throw up. I squeezed my eyes shut in the hopes of forcing the walls around me to stop spinning at an unnatural speed. Fortunately, that's exactly what Selene and her army of witches were working to do. Unfortunately for my gag reflex, they had not yet succeeded in doing so. The massive turbine of the whirlpool was churning at full speed, roaring as loud as a jet engine and sending bout after bout of vertigo across my existence.

I hadn't felt the refreshing shower of moonlight in days and I ached to wrap myself in its strength. The witch's binds around my body had been removed, but now I was immersed in an even more sinister prison.

Like a dangling carrot I'd never reach, a tiny cobalt circle high above me hinted at the promise of blue sky. It could have been in a separate universe for all the good it did me. Beneath my dangling feet the watery walls stretched far below, eventually disappearing into an infinite void of blackness. Then there was me; suspended somewhere between a slow, painful death shackled by abandonment and an equally slow, painful life shackled by witches and blonde she-devils.

I could still hear my mother's voice in my thoughts as I recalled our conversation, our promise. A promise I was currently regretting with my entire being.

"It is vitally important, my dear," she implored to my innocent mind. "Though the moon's dark energy courses through the veins of many, the moon's light essence lives in only two beings. You and I. It is our responsibility - our purpose - to protect it at all costs."

All costs. At the moment, all of those costs were running like wild horses through my mind. My supposed destiny, for one. How could I overthrow Selene whilst imprisoned in a whirlpool, powerless to escape? The destiny of the Auras was another. They needed a true Leader. A pure Leader. Someone who could show them the beauty and virtue of the moon, not just its immense power and tendency to control. But I was far from being their teacher.

The endless savagery of the whirlpool's revolutions, the intensity of its pull on not only my physical body, but my essence, and the cloud of helplessness hovering over my heart as I tumbled around in the belly of the whirlpool lasted for longer than I could have ever imagined. I could sense its wisdom, its...consciousness. It could sense my presence, and more frightening than that, the potential of my essence. It craved it. It poked and prodded at my skin, testing and hoping to find a way in; searching for a way to steal my essence from me.

My eyes blurred periodically as it surged around me, stretching my spirit and thoughts into a vacuum. It was in those moments when I hoped to die. Under its careless influence, I lost all sense of time, of who I was and what my purpose was.

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