The Earth Awakens by D. K. Holmberg

Author:D. K. Holmberg [Holmberg, D. K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2019-04-15T16:00:00+00:00

13

Tolan whistled softly to himself as he wound between the trees. His voice drifted off, carried by the wind, and he could almost feel as if he had some great connection to it. Sitting in the park had been relaxing, and as it was now time to return to the classroom, he was heading back. He had no interest in missing any of his classes. There might be something he could learn in them.

A strange sound caught his attention.

Was that the sound of a branch cracking?

He froze, listening. The wind seemed to whisper differently than it had before.

He looked around, unable to shake the sense something was off.

Glancing all around but not finding anything, he started forward again.

As he went, a strange sense grew. It came through his connection to earth, and as he picked up his pace heading through the forest, wandering away from the park and back to the city, he thought he detected something.

Every time he spun, looking behind him, he found nothing.

Just his imagination.

But then, the idea the disciples of the Draasin Lord were in the forest was enough for his imagination to fill him with fear.

The strange earth sense remained.

He started running. Even running, there was that feeling of pursuit.

Every so often, he glanced over his shoulder, seeing nothing, and when he plunged through the border of the forest and into the city, relief swept through him.

He ran the rest of the way back to the Academy, and all the way up to the water classroom. He sat there, breathing heavily, and as everyone filed in, taking their seats and the class began, he couldn’t shake the strange fear that had filled him. It was anxiety mixed with the sense of what he’d seen during the last attack, and how he was convinced he had seen Master Daniels. Though he and Ferrah had searched through the entirety of the city as much as was safe to do, there had been no additional sign of him.

Tolan remained convinced it had been Master Daniels, except the man he knew and remembered hadn’t had that kind of power.

Maybe he’d been wrong. Maybe that wasn’t Master Daniels, but if not, it was someone who resembled him.

Jonas elbowed him and Tolan swiveled on his chair to look over at his friend.

“Aren’t you going to pay attention?” he whispered.

Tolan flicked his gaze to the front of the classroom. Master Wassa was droning on about some technique of shaping, and it was one they were all expected to utilize, drawing on the power of the bondar.

“I am paying attention,” he whispered.

“No, you’re not. You’re staring off, and I’ve seen that from you often enough to know there’s something bothering you.”

“What’s the point?”

“What do you mean? The point is, you will attempt to shape through the bondar, and eventually you will master water. Isn’t that the point of being here?”

Tolan considered telling Jonas he was never going to reach water, and regardless of how many times he might try to shape through the bondar, it simply wasn’t going to work for him.

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