The Realms of the Gods by Tamora Pierce

Author:Tamora Pierce [Pierce, Tamora]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Fantasy, Children's Fiction
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 1996-11-06T00:00:00+00:00

Pieces vanished and reappeared. Now the Great Gods struggled with the Chaos beings, neither side appearing to have the advantage. Ozorne and his allies, holding swords, spears, and axes that rippled with the constantly changing colors that filled the sky and Chaos vents in the Divine Realms, attacked the gold pawns. Gold’s pieces were armed, but the attack took them while they were staring at the Great Gods’ fight; reds pieces swiftly cut them down. When Daine, Numair, and the other gold pawns were dead, Ozorne and his allies slumped to the board and dissolved, blending with their weapons. Their melted selves flowed around the outside of the ring of struggling gods, to become the Chaos stuff from Daine’s earlier dreams, flooding over, then eating, the Great Gods.

“I don’t like that game,” said Numair, his grin a bit forced. “Can we play a new one?”

In the blink of an eye, the whole board twisted. When it straightened, all the pieces had been returned to their original places. This time, as the gods and the lords of Chaos struggled, gold’s pawns led the attack. The Scanran mage threw fire at them; King Jonathan blocked it. Alanna the Champion locked blades with an armed spidren. Daine’s pawn went straight for Ozorne, Numair’s for the Copper Islander Deniau. All over the board, opponents were locked in desperate battles.

The spidren was the first killed; Alanna raised her sword with a triumphant cry. Uusoae appeared, shrieking as she charged the King’s Champion. Gold’s pawns were swept out of harm’s way as the Great Gods appeared in a circle around the Queen of Chaos. Red’s pawns vanished.

—If she is behind this, she will come to avenge her servitor, the one who found a way for her to use mortal power without Father Universe and Mother Flame knowing. Once she reveals herself, they will enter the matter, and end the fight. Gods and mortals will be safe again, at least for another thousand years.—Gainel, who had stayed beside the girl and Numair all along, looked at them. Daine could no more read the emotion in those shadow eyes now than she had been able to the last time she met their gaze.

He disappeared, and was replaced by tree limbs and leaves. It took Daine a moment to realize that she was now awake and that Gainel’s soft voice was in her mind, not her ears.—Her ally may not be a spidren. It may be another immortal, or a human. Whoever it is, for the sake of your parents, humankind, and the beast-People, you must kill him, or her. It is the only way to end the war.—

“Why didn’t someone just tell us what the problem was?” demanded Numair. Daine looked: He, too, was awake and sitting up.

—Because the Great Gods believe that no problem exists. They say that no mortal would risk the destruction of his or her own realm by helping Uusoae to break the walls that keep her contained. I no longer argue with my brothers and sisters.

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