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Chapters (50)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
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  49. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  50. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gabriel narrowed his eyes but slowly lowered the shield. “How long do we have?”

“Half a feeding cycle, maybe,” the dwarf said. “The elders say they used to travel instantly via flaming circles, but they must have forgotten how, because those haven’t been seen for as far back as anyone can remember.”

“How long is a feeding cycle?” Rachel asked. “Preferably in minutes or hours?”

Now it was the dwarf’s turn to look suspicious. “Those are measurements they use, the Old Ones. How do you know of them?”

“We’re from the same place they are,” Fort told him. “And they want us to take them back.”

The dwarf seemed to think about this for a moment. “I’d say you have three, maybe four of those hours then,” he said finally. “Why, did you plan on doing some sightseeing?”

“Nope, we’re leaving right now,” Rachel said, pulling on Fort’s uniform.

“You said you took the last human to Dragon’s Teeth,” Fort said, yanking his shirt out of her hand. “Could you take us there in that amount of time?”

The dwarf looked at him strangely. “You want me to take you where the Old Ones commanded?”

“Yeah, I’m with him!” Rachel shouted. “Are you joking?”

“That’s where they took my dad, too,” Fort told her. Turning back to the dwarf, he leaned down and extended a hand to him. The dwarf eyed it suspiciously for a moment, then reached up and took it, letting Fort help him to his feet.

“I’ll take you, if that’s your wish,” the dwarf said. “But I promise, you’ll wish you’d fled while you had the chance. I only just missed the Ritual when the last human arrived because I was a few cycles too young still. Now I have no choice but to attend, and Q’baos will destroy my will, and yours along with it.”

“She’s another Old One?” Jia asked. “What’s her specialty?”

“All I’ve seen her do is turn my people into servants, worshipping her with all their spirit,” the dwarf said, spitting on the ground. “If she has more power than that, she wouldn’t need it.”

“That’s the magic they used on us back at the old school,” Rachel whispered to Fort. “When that Old One with the screaming faces on it took over all the Healing students.”

Great. So not only did they have to worry about the Old One who used Mind magic, apparently named Ketas, but also one who knew… wait, the dwarf had said she took over his people’s spirits. Was that the sixth kind of magic? The power to not just take over a mind, but change them into willing slaves permanently?