THE OBSIDIANS by Morgan Rice

Author:Morgan Rice [Rice, Morgan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-27T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

With time paused, the immense pressure to complete the Elixir and save Esther’s life began to lessen. Oliver felt a weight lift from his shoulders. He settled in to the workshop and began working with Leonardo to decipher Teddy’s formula.

It was very odd to look in the sephora amulet at Esther and see that she was now completely frozen in time. The image in the locket had already looked like a strange charcoal painting, and now it did even more so.

Leonardo must’ve caught him glancing at the sephora amulet. “What do you have there, boy? A seer technology, I presume, but one I am not familiar with.”

“It’s a sephora amulet,” Oliver told him. “It links me to the girl I am trying to save with the Elixir.”

He showed it to Leonardo and the man gasped. “Esther Valentini! Why didn’t you say?”

Oliver felt extremely confused. Michelangelo had told him that Esther was somehow Leonardo’s muse, but in all the drama it had slipped his mind to pursue that line of intrigue. Now, hearing her name come from the lips of none other than Leonardo da Vinci, his curiosity came back to him tenfold.

“How do you know her?” he asked the inventor.

Leonardo took a deep breath. “It is one of those circuitous moments in the timelines of the universe. Esther Valentini is the key to unlocking the Elixir. The Elixir is the key to time travel for all seers. Without her, this would not be possible. But without this, saving her life would be impossible. It is a paradox. Paradoxes are always the most unstable points in the universe, as so much hinges upon everything going exactly right. It is like balancing humanity onto the head of a pin. One incorrect move and you fall, bringing everyone with you.”

Oliver gulped. Professor Amethyst had alluded to this mission being incredibly dangerous, as having some huge implications beyond just saving Esther’s life. Now he understood how high the stakes really were. He was teetering on a moment in the universe that had to be perfect. There was no room for error, for deviation.

Leonardo continued. “I found this moment in history so significant that I made Esther Valentini a muse of mine. A future version of myself left me an image of her, as a sort of clue as to things to come. Funnily enough, this must have been the moment when I first laid eyes on her face!”

Oliver’s mind spun. The ways in which timelines twisted together and interacted was befuddling. The paradoxes always blew his mind. He had to recall the theory behind it all, the one he’d read in a textbook with Ralph and had been taught by his lecturers at the School for Seers. Time was not linear. Everything that could happen already had. Everything existed at the same time. That was why Leonardo was able to “stop” time. Because the idea of time itself was an illusion.

“Oliver,” Leonardo said. “I believe it is destiny that I teach you everything I know.

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