Scott, Michael - The Sorceress by Scott Michael

Author:Scott, Michael [Scott, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Published: 2010-05-24T22:00:00+00:00

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“I disagree,” Josh retorted. “For the first time I’m thinking very clearly. This—all this—is because of us.” He looked over the Alchemyst’s shoulder, concentrating on the Wild Hunt.

Flamel followed Josh’s gaze and glanced behind him. “Yes,” he agreed. “But not because of you, not because of Sophie and Josh Newman. This is because of what you are, and what you can become. This is just another battle in a war that has raged for millennia.”

“Winning battles wins wars,” Josh said. “My father once told me it’s always best to fight one battle at a time. We’re fighting this one.”

“Maybe you should ask your sister,” Flamel countered.

“He doesn’t need to,” Sophie said quietly. Drawn by the argument, she had come to stand behind her brother.

“So you’re in agreement about this?” Flamel demanded.

“The two that are one,” Sophie said, watching the Alchemyst’s face. “Isn’t that what we are?”

Josh turned to focus on the attack. The Gabriel Hounds had thrown their spears and fired the last of their crossbow bolts. The metal corridor was now thick with swirling, cloying dust. Vague shapes moved in the cloud, but none of the enemy had broken through yet. Palamedes and Shakespeare had come down from the walls and were marshaling the hounds around the entrance to the alleyway. Josh suddenly looked up, realizing that the walls were vulnerable, and was unsurprised to see the first of the wolf heads appear over the parapets.

“If anything happens to either of you now,” Flamel said desperately, turning away from Josh, concentrating on Sophie, “then everything we have done, everything we have achieved will have been for naught. Sophie, you have the Witch’s memories.

You know what the Dark Elders did to humanity in the past. And if they capture you and your brother and retrieve the last two pages of the Codex, then they will do that, and worse—much worse—to this world.”

The immortal’s words stirred horrible memories within Sophie, and she blinked away nightmare images of a devastated flooded earth. She took a deep breath and nodded. “But before they can do anything, the Dark Elders have to capture us.” She held out her left hand and it turned into a solid silver glove. “And we’re no longer ordinary, no longer entirely human, either,” she added bitterly.

“Pull everyone back!” Josh yelled, and when he turned to look at his sister, she was shocked to see that his pupils had turned gold and were speckled with black and red that matched the hues on the stone sword he held. Mars’s eyes had been red, she remembered. Josh reached out and, before she could say anything, caught her arm.

“We’ll pull them back behind the moat,” he said. “Then we’ll set the moat on fire.”

Sophie blinked. She saw Josh, standing tall and straight, Clarent blazing in his left hand, and then her eyes silvered as the Witch’s memories flooded her and she saw the ghostly image of Mars in red and gold armor superimposed over her brother. He too carried his sword in his left hand.

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