Dreamseeker's Road (2016)
“Likewise at his back, someone was rapping on the front doorjamb—but someone more beguiling beckoned beyond heavy oak portals ahead: unheard, unseen.
The image still swam in Alec’s inner eye: the focus he’d tried to hold firm while he ignited certain herbs in the tub and drizzled certain others atop the ensuing flames, then primed the ulunsuti lavishly with his own blood (the slice in his left palm still throbbed unmercifully), and, when the fire blazed high, thrust the oracular stone within and... watched the gate between Worlds arise: a borderless shimmer of otherness where a wall and window had been. He’d not conjured the tower, though, but the face of a beautiful dark-haired woman: wing-browed and ivory-cheeked, slender but nigh as tall as he, dressed gypsy-hippie style, and with a dimple in her right cheek when she smiled.
More knocks rattled the screen door. This was it, then. Holding his breath, he twisted awkwardly around, reached back through the gate, and snatched the ulunsuti from where it glowed and sparked within the fading fire that was still scorching iron-stained porcelain a World away.MoreLess
The image still swam in Alec’s inner eye: the focus he’d tried to hold firm while he ignited certain herbs in the tub and drizzled certain others atop the ensuing flames, then primed the ulunsuti lavishly with his own blood (the slice in his left palm still throbbed unmercifully), and, when the fire blazed high, thrust the oracular stone within and... watched the gate between Worlds arise: a borderless shimmer of otherness where a wall and window had been. He’d not conjured the tower, though, but the face of a beautiful dark-haired woman: wing-browed and ivory-cheeked, slender but nigh as tall as he, dressed gypsy-hippie style, and with a dimple in her right cheek when she smiled.
More knocks rattled the screen door. This was it, then. Holding his breath, he twisted awkwardly around, reached back through the gate, and snatched the ulunsuti from where it glowed and sparked within the fading fire that was still scorching iron-stained porcelain a World away.MoreLess
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