Vortex Visions (Air Awakens: Vortex Chronicles #1)

by Elise Kova

The words were not just words. They weren’t mere sounds or symbols. They were meaning combined with understanding brought to life with intent. It was greater than the sum of any individual part.

Vi may not understand everything yet, when it came to being a Lightspinner. But she understood how to make something burn.

There was a different feeling about her—her magic specifically. A feeling of control, of a deep understanding she’d never quite mastered before.

For the first time in her life, Vi thought there might be something beautiful to magic. Not just any magic, but her magic.

Normal future sight—by a Firebearer—was generally regarded as absolute truth. But Vi wasn’t exactly a Firebearer. So she’d have to take Taavin’s word for it.

“Just as there have been apexes of fate in the past, there will be apexes in the future. Places where—” “—the world changed or places where it could still be changed,”

“How do they get the sacrifice of a goddess?” Vi asked slowly. Suspicions were dawning on her even as she asked, but she wanted to leave no room for error. “Ashes, from the flame if it is snuffed. The blood of the voice… or the champion.”

“Understood—three words, and then intent beyond that.” Just as she’d originally suspected. Lightspinning was not so different from the principles of elemental magic she’d been taught her whole life.

Mysst, to craft.

“Prince Romulin has said that’s precisely why they—Vi especially—are expected to make smart matches. A commoner rising to marry the Crown Prince as Empress Vhalla did is not something we can come to expect often.”

“I’m not going to sit quietly by. I’m not going to be the perfect princess if breaking the rules will help me save my father. My family is the one thing I’ve wanted, the one thing I’ve been working toward. I can’t give up on it now.”

Juth—destruction. Starys—incinerate. Hoolo… to hold.

Champion of Yargen, Lightspinner, heir to the Solaris Empire… Vi did not speak on behalf of any of her titles. She spoke for herself and herself alone

WONDERFUL FINISH