Shadowrise (2010)
Shadowrise
“—from “A Treatise on the Fairy Peoples of Eion and Xand”
FOR LONG MOMENTS Ferras Vansen could only sit and stare into the near-darkness trying to understand what had happened. He was weak and queasy and his head was ringing like a bell, a single continuous chime. Chert Blue Quartz stood over him, mouth working broadly, but Vansen could hear no sound.
Deaf, he thought. I’m deaf. And then he remembered the thunderclap that had knocked him from his feet, a crash louder than anything he had heard... since the blasting in the pits of Greatdeeps.
He pushed that nightmare memory from his mind and closed his eyes once more. Dizziness picked him up like a boat on a rough current and swirled him around and around. He was suddenly aware for the first time in days that he was really, truly underground—deep in a hole beneath the world, with an unimaginable weight of stone between him and the sun. If only someone would take a giant stick and poke a hole through it so he could see the light again, instead of being lost beneath it .MoreLess
FOR LONG MOMENTS Ferras Vansen could only sit and stare into the near-darkness trying to understand what had happened. He was weak and queasy and his head was ringing like a bell, a single continuous chime. Chert Blue Quartz stood over him, mouth working broadly, but Vansen could hear no sound.
Deaf, he thought. I’m deaf. And then he remembered the thunderclap that had knocked him from his feet, a crash louder than anything he had heard... since the blasting in the pits of Greatdeeps.
He pushed that nightmare memory from his mind and closed his eyes once more. Dizziness picked him up like a boat on a rough current and swirled him around and around. He was suddenly aware for the first time in days that he was really, truly underground—deep in a hole beneath the world, with an unimaginable weight of stone between him and the sun. If only someone would take a giant stick and poke a hole through it so he could see the light again, instead of being lost beneath it .MoreLess
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