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Excerpt: ECHO (Seasons 1) - Grey ghosts in white fog
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Therewere hundreds. By the gods. How had they ended up trapped? However it came topass wasn’t the main issue, though. He needed all lost souls to congregate forthis to work. Potentially, any stragglers in the aftermath would not againapproach, thinking it would end their existence, terrible as it was for them.
“Isee you,” he said aloud. “I can help you.” The forms stilled, but he did noticea thickening in the rear as if many more suddenly joined the crowd. Good. “Iswear to send you into your Afterlife, if you will grant me the opportunity todo so.”
A lowwhistle in front of his horse revealed that Sabian had arrived, although Echocouldn’t see him. “How many, Echo?” came the man’s disembodied question.
“Noclue. Can you do this?”
“Theyare wary, but yes. Talk to them while I prepare.”
Echoraised his voice. “Do you hear me? Someone has come with the talent to take youinto the realms beyond this one where you may finally be at peace. Whateverlies in your souls now, whether fury or numbness, does not determine yourdestination. No supernatural power judges you for reacting to this currentstate of waiting. Where you go is determined by who you truly are in your deeprecesses. You are Diluvan, and you walk in the Light. Please, we mean you noharm. Will you gather all for this to be?”
Sightnow was more about grey than white, which meant more and more ghostly Diluvanswere entering the assembly. The greyness undulated, due to arrivals requiringspace, and then abruptly, all movement ceased. Did that mean all were present?Did it mean they accepted?
“Theyare ready,” Sabian murmured. “Well done, Echo. Do no more; I will take it fromhere.”
Adead kind of silence descended then, one that included utter motionlessness.Even the fog felt otherworldly, without substance. The sense of cloying wetnessevaporated entirely.
Then,poof.
Thefog simply vanished.
Bluesky blazed overhead.
Even unseenSabian was gone. That wasn’t as much an astonishment, however; Sabian needed toleave with the souls.
Okydshouted somewhere, and the sound of his horse’s hooves was loud in thestillness.
Mabelleecleared her throat. “What, Echo?”
Briefas the event had been, he had not the wherewithal to explain. Oreun indicatedthat she would, and thus he released the woman, kneeing his mount forward. Afew paces removed, he halted again to lace his hands on his head, and inhaledmassive breaths repeatedly. By the gods, that had been strange. Other.
Fair-hairedand blue-eyed Sabian reappeared then, grinning, and Echo slid from his mount.The two men entered a back-slapping embrace, something that was all aboutrelief.
“Thanks,man,” Echo said fervently as they drew apart.
“I’magog as to how a bunch of Diluvans managed to stick around,” Sabian laughed. “Theywill be fine. I received only gratefulness as they dissipated.” He gazed around… and saw Oreun. “That’s a Kallanon. What’s going on here?”
Mightbe an idea to fill Sabian in, who could then take the message to Torrullin andElianas. “You have an hour or two?”
Stillwatching the dragonne, Sabian muttered, “For this I’ll give you a day or two.”
Grinningfrom ear to ear, Echo started talking.
Be careful of what you wish for. The world Luvanor has four continents, but the small one in the south remains abandoned after massive volcanic eruptions destroyed the land a long time ago, creating simultaneously an impassable trench in the ocean few dare cross.
Abandoned. Uninhabited. Perhaps dangerous. The type of adventure Echayn Valla, aka Echo, goes in search of, hoping to discover remains from that bygone era, or perhaps he hopes to find something new about himself.
Don’t they say be careful of what you wish for? Echo is about to embark on the greatest misadventure of his life. Nothing is as it seems, as he will soon realise. Join him now for a journey of discovery that will test his wits, his strength … and his heart.
This is also a love story.
ECHO: Autumn of the Dragon
