Page 30 of Wings of The Wraith
Chapter 6
Alyssa
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This felt like beingback at college, when I was studying as opposed to me working at Georgetown.
I was always curious about everything, and now that I had something to be curious about it was all getting the better of me.
I thought Dante knew exactly what I would be looking for by giving me access to this library.
There was a lot to learn, but what I wanted to know most was anything that could help me understand what I was.
A Syphon.
My grandmother explained what she could, and I’d listened. I’d listened and tried to move past the fact she was alive and some head witch for a coven of witches who protected the realms.
I tried to move past the fact I’d been lied to all my life. My family had lied to me and hid this world from me.
I did not feel good about that and I still wasn’t ready to accept it.
What made me accept some level of it, was what I’d seen so far.
I knew it was real and while I’d thought insanity had come for me, I knew what I saw really did happen.
Balmora, Dante, Aurora, the castle, the shifting scenery. The men on the airship. The people who were after me.
It was all real.
All of it.
I looked up syphons and found records of five. That was it. Putting together what Grandma had told me and what I read, I’d deduced our bloodline had chosen five people to be syphons. I was the sixth so far. The last one lived two hundred years ago and died when she sacrificed herself to seal a breach in hell.
I didn’t want my life to come to that.
We’d been on this journey now for hours.
I set the book I was reading down on the table and looked toward the door to my bunk. That was still there despite the illusion of the library.
The minute I moved to the door the library disappeared.
It was fine, I’d read enough. My poor brain didn’t want to take in anymore.
I left the bunk and made my way back to the bridge where Neo and Zeek were talking about some game.
It was night now, so a whole day had gone by. I didn’t disturb them. Instead I walked out to what looked like a balcony and as I proceeded my surroundings turned into the night sky with all the stars cascaded against it.
I knew I was still inside the ship and this was another illusion, but it was a good one.
“Finished reading?” Dante asked.
I didn’t see him before. He was standing on the level just above me leaning on the rails.
“I think so,” I answered.
“Come up here.”
I looked for the stairs and made my way up.
