The Conservation of Magic (The Science of Magic Book 1) by Michael W. Layne

Author:Michael W. Layne [Layne, Michael W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-04-20T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 26

CARA HAD GOTTEN only as far as the coastline of Scotland before the earth had refused her further passage. She had gotten stuck there, as one with the slime and vegetation of the ocean floor, trying to think of how to proceed. In the end, she had decided to return to Rune Corp. Even though she had traveled along Terrada’s spine many times before, she still found it hard to perform normal mental tasks while doing so. Simply making the decision to return had exhausted her.

Normal humans could not even relate to using the earth as a means of transit. They had nothing to compare it to. Traveling through all of Terrada’s incarnations was nothing like being a passenger on a train riding along a set of fixed tracks. It was more like traveling from the top of an hourglass to the bottom, particle by particle, losing oneself literally in one’s surroundings.

Cara sat alone in her office, analyzing her failed journey to the Earth Clan’s city. The best she could figure, the council must have extended and tightened their security wards around the mountain, charming the earth into not allowing any visitors whatsoever. What a useless thing to do, Cara thought. Didn’t the council realize that Eudroch would travel on Sigela’s tail, not Terrada’s, to reach them? Even the tightest of Earth security wards wouldn’t stop Eudroch and his tribe from riding the lightning. That’s how Cara would invade the Earth City if she were Eudroch.

Maybe the clan really was led by fools, just like her father had always told her—dangerous fools, but fools nonetheless.

With Earth travel no longer an option, Cara would have to go with a more conservative mode of transportation. It would take an airplane about nine and a half hours to get to Heathrow and then another hour or so to shuttle to Edinburgh, Scotland. From there, they’d have to rent a car and drive as far as she could into the Highlands, taking another few hours or so. The team would have to hike in the rest of the way, where the terrain was too rough even for the most hardy of sports utility vehicles. All in all, it would be a couple days before they arrived at the mountain of the Earth Clan and then who knew how long it would take to infiltrate the clan’s home. All of this was assuming that she and the rest of the team could sleep on the way over the ocean, so as to minimize the effects of jet lag—a concept she had heard all about, but had never experienced for herself—yet another benefit of traveling through Terrada.

Now, she had to tell the rest of the team so they could be ready in time. Most of the employees would have to stay behind, to continue fortifying the building, in case the fight came to their front door, but she needed Chris and the team she had asked him to form while she was gone. She hoped

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