Black blood spouted onto the grass. The vision ended with the mardoc ripping Scar apart.
The mardoc shook its head and focused on the crystal again, while Scar returned to purring.
“Why fight? When you know you will fail. You always fail.”
Scar growled. “Maybe the crystal isn’t a good focus for you after all.”
“You saw?” The mardoc shrunk into a ball. It would not kill Scar. Never, please never.
“Of course I saw.” Scar tapped a claw between its eyes. “I do not have white-eyes. I am not a shaman. I still have enough of their influence in my head to hear and see what they send to another slave. You did not act on those images, my friend. That is another victory.” Scar purred again.
Warmth spread through the mardoc’s chest, a rare feeling. It …show more content…
He knew her name. He knew it when he found her crystal in the water long ago. River. River reached her pale hand out to him. "Please, Jonus. Indious grows stronger. I can do nothing to stop him like this. Come to me."
He had to break that spire to get her out. How could he do that?
The Shaman Mardoc, the protector and guide to the mardocs in this colony under the trees and by the lake, ran down to them. “What is going on? Why are my mardocs screaming? What has happened?”
River held Jonus’s attention. "Please." Her eyes begged him.
She never needs to beg of me.
Jonus uncurled and dove into the water.
As he swam through the water he felt other odd connections. Warmth that was not his filled his body. He saw images of places he did not know or remember. Felt eyes looking through his own eyed and ears listening through his ear-bulbs.
“Jonus.”
Never mind the strange connections; he had to get to River.
Indious spoke again. “Tonight those that have left me will repent of their sins. You shall do penance.”
“I wish he would shut up,” River said. “Don’t listen to him. You are almost there.”
Jonus swam to the spire of green crystal, reaching high into the sky.
“Jonus,
The mardoc shook its head and focused on the crystal again, while Scar returned to purring.
“Why fight? When you know you will fail. You always fail.”
Scar growled. “Maybe the crystal isn’t a good focus for you after all.”
“You saw?” The mardoc shrunk into a ball. It would not kill Scar. Never, please never.
“Of course I saw.” Scar tapped a claw between its eyes. “I do not have white-eyes. I am not a shaman. I still have enough of their influence in my head to hear and see what they send to another slave. You did not act on those images, my friend. That is another victory.” Scar purred again.
Warmth spread through the mardoc’s chest, a rare feeling. It …show more content…
He knew her name. He knew it when he found her crystal in the water long ago. River. River reached her pale hand out to him. "Please, Jonus. Indious grows stronger. I can do nothing to stop him like this. Come to me."
He had to break that spire to get her out. How could he do that?
The Shaman Mardoc, the protector and guide to the mardocs in this colony under the trees and by the lake, ran down to them. “What is going on? Why are my mardocs screaming? What has happened?”
River held Jonus’s attention. "Please." Her eyes begged him.
She never needs to beg of me.
Jonus uncurled and dove into the water.
As he swam through the water he felt other odd connections. Warmth that was not his filled his body. He saw images of places he did not know or remember. Felt eyes looking through his own eyed and ears listening through his ear-bulbs.
“Jonus.”
Never mind the strange connections; he had to get to River.
Indious spoke again. “Tonight those that have left me will repent of their sins. You shall do penance.”
“I wish he would shut up,” River said. “Don’t listen to him. You are almost there.”
Jonus swam to the spire of green crystal, reaching high into the sky.
“Jonus,