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.Eyes wide open on a vision that had not yet come to pass, she watched the new world engendered by the victory of the Darkening.A glorious sun spread heat over immense fields where wheat, rye, and corn ripened under the warm rays.Strong trees shot toward the deep blue skies bearing oranges, lemons, olives, and many coloured fruits.Clear water tumbled along streamlets, large rivers, or cascaded down high, beautiful cliffs.Snow capped soaring mountains, their pointy peaks reaching for the ethers, the steep sides down to the bottom displaying lush, green vegetation.Fresh grass grew around vast lakes glittering under the reflection of the sun, and bordering dense, thriving forests.An endless body of blue-green liquid rolled or churned under the force of invisible currents, its powerful waters extending as far as the eye could see.The amazing mass undulated and rippled with the wind.Long bands of white curls formed on the surface where the expanse ended, and came to die before thin, golden stretches of land.What was she fighting for? Why did the Mighty Gods want to prevent the rise of such a gorgeous, breath taking world?“I don’t understand.”The words barely passed her lips before the black ice engulfed the rest of her face, freezing her eyes open for all eternity.There was no way she could still breathe with her mouth and nose blocked, yet she felt no lack of air, and she could still make out the sombre form through the frozen layer.Cold, trapped, and buried alive, just like in her nightmares.You will.She gasped when vivid, coloured images assaulted her mind again.Huge cities invaded the landscape, people swarming the pathways like industrious colonies of ants.So many people flocking alleys, lanes, and wide, gray streets where metal carts on wheels whizzed past them.Gigantic towers reflecting the glare of the sun stood as high as the sky.In dark, narrow paths between tall buildings, people got knifed in the guts while others fell from being hit with small projectiles in the shape of pointed cylinders.Clean looking structures housed animals in cages.The defenceless creatures were beaten, tormented, and maimed to create small pills and oily artefacts.Near the statue of a lady holding a flame, big birds made of metal flew across the sky to crash into high towers, causing human shapes on fire to jump out of windows and plummet to their deaths.Entire towns vanished, destroyed by an explosive weapon releasing smoke in the form of a mushroom cloud.Men of war separated entire families before locking them up in chambers that filled with lethal gas.Warriors transported in flat boats were cut down to pieces as they landed on stretches of yellow land displaying big, square blocks of stone.All over the world, soldiers decimated whole populations with black, metal tube weapons.Hot and cold territories shook with screams of pain, soaked in the blood of their people.In a vast, arid land scorched by the sun, brown-skinned infants died of starvation, their dried tears crusted to the corner of their eyes.Little girls were mutilated.Somewhere else, men paid to rape and torture children.Stop! Please, stop!Her frozen mouth didn’t allow her to speak, yet she heard her yell of anguish resonate around the fortress.Stop.I can’t stand it anymore.Bile rose up her throat.Her insides shuddered with revulsion at the memory of such cruelty and misery, of all that blood spilled for nothing.Maybe those people had chosen the Darkening as their master.Or they had lost hope, and let it become their ruler.Exactly like she was doing.Fear and understanding struck her at last, just as the Lord of the Clans’ words burst through her immobility to swirl and echo in her brain.If you surrender to despair, then you dig your own grave.You must have hope.She had now.Sickened and revolted by the atrocious pictures she witnessed, her entire being rebelled at the idea of seeing her world fall into such viciousness.She would not allow it.The hooded form had called itself humanity because hate, barbarity, and evil lurked within its dark folds.They existed in the Four Kingdoms, although not to this extreme degree of violence.The people from the new world had let evil take over their souls, and it had unleashed their deepest wickedness.She wouldn’t commit the same mistake.She owed it to Cameron, and to her realm.Horror made her blood boil.She’d lost all physical sensations when the frost enclosed her body, but pins and needles now pricked her fingers and toes.The unexpected pain inflamed her fury as the Darkening approached her.When unbearable heat suddenly whooshed up her limbs to transform her into a vibrant, fiery mass, she let it.Dazzling, white light burst out of her body and shattered the black ice to pieces.So violent was the explosion that frozen chunks ripped through the dark cloak.The evil stepped back, but the gaping hole under the hood remained as black as the darkest night.There you are.You’re finally showing me your real force.Every inch of her skin gave off brilliance.The great power from the Ancients ran freely in her blood, awakening all her senses, taking complete possession of her body and mind.The pain vanished as she allowed the old magic to seize her and become her, while hope and faith flooded her core.Although she revelled in the incredibly staggering sensation, she stayed in control.The Ancients were giving her their full power, as was meant to be, but they didn’t dictate her actions.She did.“I will not allow you to create this new world.”The horrid laugh coming from the darkness seemed to crack her brain.Teeth gritted, she shuddered when it spoke with a hissing voice.I don’t create anything.I exploit what’s already there.The realm I showed to your Mighty Gods is what’s left of the Four Kingdoms once I’m done with it.Her pulse pounded in her ears, kicking her heart, lighting sparks of fire into each of her nerves.She was liberated from the black ice, and she burned with the desire to hurl her power at the monster challenging her.Yet she bid her time because she knew [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]