VOIDWALKER by M.L. Brooks

Author:M.L. Brooks [Brooks, M.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2017-11-01T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

Every day for an entire week after Adair had left, Ivor brought his men up to Rose’s manor. They tried to break the lock with pickaxes and weapons, and it ended with their tools broken. They tried using ladders to go over the fence and shovels to dig under the fence, but every time they got close to getting through they would be overwhelmed with dizziness and unable to continue.

At the end of his rope, Ivor and his men came up with bows and arrows. They lit them on fire and shot them over the fence at Rose’s house. When the arrows came down to land, the dizziness was upon them again. Once they had become reoriented to the world around them, all sign of the arrows was gone.

After that, Ivor and his men forgot about the manor. Every time they thought about the manor or talked about it, even when they were miles away, it was as if their minds would start spinning again and the any thought they had of the manor would be gone when the dizziness ended. Eventually they stopped going up and trying to break in, and their lives gradually returned to normal.

Meanwhile, Adair was preparing to enter the dark cave in the Crystal Waste. Snow swirled around her, chilling her cheeks and her fingers. She trudged into the darkness. Each step she took was firm against the glassy ground below her feet. With a twirl of his hands Emin had reactivated his skull lantern, and he walked in with his companion.

Looking around at the tunnel she had entered, Adair realized this wasn’t a cave at all. The walls were perfectly round and although they had been worn by the passage of time, they were far too smooth to be a natural structure. Emin looked around with her, sharing in her sense of curiosity as to what they were exploring.

Shortly into their walk, they came upon a circular room. Without the wind in the chamber they had entered, the air was warmer than it felt outside. There were three chairs toward the wall, equal distances apart. In the center was a podium with a globe just bigger than a cantaloupe sitting on top, just as Rose had described. Adair put her hands on the orb. It was cool to the touch and felt like a regular glass globe. Nothing happened.

“Did Rose tell you what we’re supposed to do here?” asked Emin.

“No. She said if this orb activates for me that she will train me. So, I just have to activate it,” said Adair.

“Perhaps a spell or a ritual will do it?” suggested Emin.

Adair kept looking around the podium. There were no switches or levers or designs in it. She could not figure out what the room was for or how to activate the orb. Emin looked at his skull lantern, the light inside of it pulsating in the room. He walked over and stuck his free hand on to the orb. Green light pulsed into the orb and then bounced back into his hand.

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