Visions by Kit Bladegrave

Author:Kit Bladegrave [Bladegrave, Kit]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-08T22:00:00+00:00

9

Sabella

You should get some sleep at some point.”

“Huh?” I blinked against the candlelight in Hansi’s tower as Ashan set down a steaming mug of something in front of me. “Please tell me that’s not more of his tea?”

She laughed lightly. “No, elven coffee, has a bit of a kick.”

I thanked her for it and took two gulps. Seconds later, I was wide awake, and my hands were shaking. “What’s in that stuff?”

“Our version of caffeine. I suggest you drink it slowly.”

I pushed the mug away, so I wouldn’t pick up and drink out of habit. “Any news?”

“No, not yet, but I’m sure if they find something, they will send word.”

“I wish we had something.” I shut the book I’d fallen asleep paging through and glanced at Kate, passed out on the couch by the hearth. “Nothing on how to track a god, or find a god. Nothing on how to get to their realm. Nothing.”

“And you don’t think you already know how—instinctively, I mean—to find them?”

I shook my head.

Hansi and I had worked with my godly powers. I managed to get a few flickers in my hands, but nothing to the extent I used when defeating the stone guardian. He too thought I had to have some sort of connection to the gods through my blood and be able to find them, but no matter how hard I meditated, focusing on that part of me, nothing happened. I couldn’t sense my mother, or the other gods. On the bright side, I couldn’t sense Baladon either, and the voices were still being kept at bay thanks to Ashan.

And then after that, I sat down to research whatever I could find on Baladon and his plague of darkness. A few times, I thought I’d heard Tristan’s growling voice in my ear, but each time I opened my eyes, it was just me and Hansi in this tower I felt I was never going to leave.

Then, I fell asleep over the book.

“Have you had any more visions?” Ashan asked, pulling me from my thoughts.

“Not that I know of, though lately it’s been almost every day. I’m kind of surprised I haven’t had one in a bit.”

“And if you tried to get one?”

I almost picked up the mug of coffee to take another drink to buy myself some time, but my hands were still a bit shaky from the first few gulps, so I paused. “I try, but nothing happens. It appears I’m useless at the moment. Can’t make my light work and the visions refuse to come and help me out.”

“You, my dear, are far from useless. You heard Hansi. You’re important to this war.”

“How? I haven’t done anything except hurt Tristan and nearly get myself killed.”

“What did Hansi tell you?” she said sternly.

“Have faith, I got it.”

“Do you?” she challenged. “You’re letting the darkness get to you.”

“It’s not that easy keeping it away.”

“You must have one central thought that you can hold onto that pulls you back from the brink every time you feel it creeping closer,” she said softly, her eyes taking on a faraway look.

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