Darkness surrounds us. We see it in the crimes that are committed, the
terrors that stalk not just our nightmares, but our waking lives as well.
But from the darkness comes the purest light: that of hope, love, and the
desire for peace and freedom. From our most terrifying nightmares are born
the most fervent desire and enduring love.
So take a walk in the dark side of passion, fear, and the supernatural. Find
your deepest desires, and release the magic within....
terrors that stalk not just our nightmares, but our waking lives as well.
But from the darkness comes the purest light: that of hope, love, and the
desire for peace and freedom. From our most terrifying nightmares are born
the most fervent desire and enduring love.
So take a walk in the dark side of passion, fear, and the supernatural. Find
your deepest desires, and release the magic within....
| Phoenix Telyn Gwndal intended nothing more than to bury her heart in Raiador's fiery core. Her Elemental hosts have a very different idea of where she belongs, and their quest could cost her everything. Within the benighted forest of the Eleshau, Telyn would come face-to-face with her most hated enemy and, in the halls of Death itself, her most beloved ally. Can Telyn find the heart she cast far away, or has Fate's intervention come far too late? |
From SPIRIT MAGE:
The Eleshau was alive. That was what all the stories about this benighted wood said, and after everything she'd seen
during her time in the Borderlands, she wasn't inclined to disagree. Phoenix Telyn Gwndal eyed the trees around her
warily as she rode along the undergrowth-covered ancient paths. Not many people ever travelled these trails. Few who
did ever returned.
She glanced to her right, certain the trees were whispering, and not in the whimsical, imaginative way. She was far
too aware the shadows here harbored monsters capable of killing the body, or stealing the soul.
"I must be mad."
She had no idea why she was here, but she wasn't inclined to linger without good reason. Somewhere out there in the
trees was Nacaris' final resting place. Though she'd searched, she never found his body. She mourned him the whole
way to Raiador, battered and weary to the soul. She'd expected to hide herself away within the World Forge and lick
her wounds -- both physical and emotional -- until she could face the world again.
But the Salamandars had other ideas. No sooner had she arrived, Phoenix Book in tow, than they put her to work
memorizing the entire Book. And then, to her shock and horror, they sent her back out here, to the Eleshau. Sala
claimed the next step in her journey as one of the Chosen lay beyond this forest.
Telyn swallowed hard. She wasn't even sure there was anything beyond the Eleshau. Legend told of a land beyond
here -- a mystical land peopled by beings from the stars, and Majikal creatures few had ever seen. Other stories
declared the continent dropped off sharply into the roiling riptides of the ocean, just past the forest. That, storytellers
said, was why no one who entered the forest ever returned.
The Eleshau was alive. That was what all the stories about this benighted wood said, and after everything she'd seen
during her time in the Borderlands, she wasn't inclined to disagree. Phoenix Telyn Gwndal eyed the trees around her
warily as she rode along the undergrowth-covered ancient paths. Not many people ever travelled these trails. Few who
did ever returned.
She glanced to her right, certain the trees were whispering, and not in the whimsical, imaginative way. She was far
too aware the shadows here harbored monsters capable of killing the body, or stealing the soul.
"I must be mad."
She had no idea why she was here, but she wasn't inclined to linger without good reason. Somewhere out there in the
trees was Nacaris' final resting place. Though she'd searched, she never found his body. She mourned him the whole
way to Raiador, battered and weary to the soul. She'd expected to hide herself away within the World Forge and lick
her wounds -- both physical and emotional -- until she could face the world again.
But the Salamandars had other ideas. No sooner had she arrived, Phoenix Book in tow, than they put her to work
memorizing the entire Book. And then, to her shock and horror, they sent her back out here, to the Eleshau. Sala
claimed the next step in her journey as one of the Chosen lay beyond this forest.
Telyn swallowed hard. She wasn't even sure there was anything beyond the Eleshau. Legend told of a land beyond
here -- a mystical land peopled by beings from the stars, and Majikal creatures few had ever seen. Other stories
declared the continent dropped off sharply into the roiling riptides of the ocean, just past the forest. That, storytellers
said, was why no one who entered the forest ever returned.
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