Magic's Genesis- Reckoning
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Ghern hugged them again and stepped back several feet as Lydria took the small double-bladed weapon in her hand, focusing her magic on it, but not imbuing it with a stone of its own. It was a task she knew should have been impossible but with the grace of Wilmamen, she knew she could do it. She looked at the old man, and around the green fields and hills, the flowers and blue sky, and out over a river where an enormous beaver stood on top of his lodge and slapped his tail in farewell. She pictured Safarngal as they had agreed, and swung the short sword across the air, splitting it in two. Hokra went first, followed by Haustis, and the weapon turned to dust and sailed away on a fresh breeze that took it toward the water. A single tear rolled down Lydria’s blue eye as she looked to Ghern and stepped through the doorway and it snapped closed.
“Have they gone?” A voice reached across the field to Ghern and Nethyal.
“Yes, my son, they have gone. Are you sure this is what you want?” From the direction of the river, a tall, proud man walked toward his father and his son. Ilsit was at the height of his strength and he put an arm around the two men who continued to stare into the direction where a rent in the air had just dissolved.
“It is not what I want, but what is necessary. It serves them no purpose to know that since they left Eigrae I have made my way to the Melting Grae. Among the many things they will face, my death will take up only a small portion of their sorrow. Any regret I may have over not having seen them one last time, will be atoned when they join us here where and can live together peacefully until we move on. Until then, they will be busy enough.”
The End
Here ends the first trilogy of the 30 Stones Saga.
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The world of Eigrae will return in book four.