Meg regains the Kirana Crystal, but when she touches it, she discovers the truth about it–the truth Velanna didn’t even know.
In rush of sensation, everything froze.
Silence. It fell over the chamber like a deafening blanket. The burning acrid smoke of the volcano pit was gone, replaced with a silver-white light that tingled and sparkled.
Velanna and Tzaitel stood back to back several yards away, straining to keep fighting the Centaurs poised to destroy them.
Danny and Mickey stood at each other’s sides, and even though the situation was dire, both of them were smiling like they were having fun. Who knew the way to help her cousnis bond was in mortal combat with homicidal Centaurs?
Barb had gone to help Jim.
Poor Jim. He’d taken refuge under a rock ledge, but he’d still been throwing rocks at the Centaurs. Let it never be said that he gave up easily.
Ask me.
Meg straightened and turned in a circle. The whole world had frozen, a veil of silver-white light dropped on everyone around her, but it hadn’t touched her. It was like standing in a wax museum of a horrible war, surrounded by combatants who she happened to know and love.
But there was no one who could have spoken in a voice like that.
Musical. Soft. Thundering. Fierce. Gentle. Everything it couldn’t be at the same time.
“Where are you?” Meg asked.
Her voice echoed as though the chamber of wax figures were hollow. The light around her shivered, and the figures around her began to fade. What was happening?
