Voidheart (The Celestial Path Book 1) by D.K. Holmberg

Author:D.K. Holmberg [Holmberg, D.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2025-01-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Nineteen

Roran crouched in front of the aether stone. The only time he had ever touched one intentionally had been after taking the celestial elixir, when he had intended to obtain his ability. At that point, the world had been filled with possibilities.

Of course, Roran had been close to the aether stone more than that time. He thought about when he had snuck toward the stone when he was younger, when he had thought that maybe he would try to touch it, just as a test, and more as a curiosity about whether or not there would be anything that he could learn from it. He hadn’t really expected to find anything, and at the time, he had not. There had just been heat. And he supposed he should have known that there would be.

But now he felt something else.

The stone had reacted to him. It hadn’t been drained of power.

His voidheart ability affected the aether stone, but it didn’t destroy it the way that his family had worried about. Not that he would be able to convince them of that. He doubted that anybody would believe him that he would not—or maybe could not even—damage one.

“Come on,” Lunal said.

He looked up, and then he realized that the scraping he had been hearing now sounded closer, louder, and maybe a bit more urgent.

“It’s not just them,” Tiveran said.

“What?” Lunal said.

“It’s not just them. It’s him.”

“Then you can’t send us away,” she said.

Tiveran shook his head. “No. I can’t have you here. You and I both know he cannot get this.”

“But, Tiveran⁠—”

He held his hand up. “We both know the truth here, Lunal. We cannot allow this to get into his hands. So go.”

She bit back an argument and just seemed to hold on to her frustration, while keeping her blade in hand.

“You’re going to have to touch it, boy,” Tiveran said to Roran. “You’re not going to damage it. That’s not how it works.”

Roran had no idea how it worked, but the idea that he could do something that would cause a problem left him worried about the possibility. “What if it does?”

“Well, if it does, then it does.”

Tiveran didn’t seem at all concerned. That, more than everything else Roran had seen, surprised him.

Roran hesitantly reached for the stone and felt the warmth radiating from it. The warmth was familiar, even comforting, and as he grabbed the stone, he wasn’t sure if it would be possible for him to lift it.

The light inside the stone didn’t dim. Nothing changed.

At least, not at first.

Then, slowly, the heat began to dissipate. The light within it began to fade.

He jerked his hand back.

“No time for that,” Tiveran said.

“Just take it,” Lunal hissed.

Roran shook his head. “You saw what happened.”

“I saw what happened, but look at it now,” she said. “Just take it. Please. We have to get out of here. If this is Gravik, then we need to go.”

Gravik must be the Sky Hunter. And he was well-known enough to them that Lunal feared him.

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