Vortex Chronicles: The Complete Series (Air Awakens: Vortex Chronicles) by Kova Elise & Kova Elise

Author:Kova, Elise & Kova, Elise [Kova, Elise]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781949694208
Publisher: Silver Wing Press
Published: 2020-08-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

“I know what this is,” Vi insisted.

“You clearly do not.” Aldrik reached forward, hesitated with his hand hovering above the pole of the scythe, then made up his mind. He grasped it, but not before Vi gripped it with both her hands on either side of his. She held on firmly as he tried to wrench it away and make good on his demand to throw it overboard. “If you knew what this was, you would not be holding it in the first place. Now let it go, Vi.”

She knew that tone. It was the same tone that would have had her shaking as a child. But she wasn’t a child any longer.

“No. You need to listen to me, Father.”

“Vi—”

“Listen, please,” Vi pleaded. But she knew that alone wouldn’t be what got through to him. Vi knew she had to prove she wasn’t the reckless child he thought she was. “I know this is a crystal weapon and I know their history. I know Mother found a crystal weapon that led to the rise of the Mad King and the destruction of the crystal caverns.”

“Do you know it was that same crystal weapon that stole her powers?” Aldrik’s voice lowered, becoming sterner by the moment.

“What?” Vi breathed.

“Do you know it was a crystal weapon that also began the War of the Crystal Caverns before the Mad King?”

She didn’t. Her father was pointing out dangerous gaps in her knowledge left and right. “No,” Vi said calmly, leveling her eyes with her father’s. “I don’t know those things, though I would like to. What I do know is that the Crystal Caverns are gone. All the other Crystal Weapons—fragments of Yargen’s power—are gone with it. And this may be the last thing we have to stand against an evil god trying to destroy this world as we know it.”

They engaged in a staring contest. Vi didn’t back down. Her father sighed heavily, releasing the scythe and staggering away as though it had wounded him.

“Neither of us should be touching it…” he murmured, running a hand through his dark, limp hair. “You may have gotten recklessness and stubbornness from your mother, but damn if I didn’t pass along that fire in your belly.”

Vi felt somewhat proud. Continuing her efforts to calm the situation, she acquiesced to his request, slowly laying down the scythe.

“I think I’m able to touch it without issue since I have Yargen’s magic—I’ve felt normal handling it for some time now. But you’re likely right in that you should limit your contact.” Vi didn’t know if the scythe could taint him in the way the crystals of the Crystal Caverns were said to have tainted men who had come in contact with them. The scythe had been removed from the Dark Isle so early, perhaps it had escaped the slow weakening of the barriers holding back Raspian and the affects of his powers on the crystal.

It was a plausible theory. But to test it, Vi would have to risk the crystals twisting her father into a monster.

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