Page 5 of Wings of The Wraith
I caught it and held it up to the light. I dared not think it was what I wanted it to be.
“What is this Malachi?”
“The teleportation stone that you seek.”
This was it. This was the last item on my list.
The other items were so hard to come by.
Very hard, and painful to my heart.
The soul of the empath and tears from a mermaid were items I got in one go.
I was after the mermaid when I happened upon the empath who was trying to save her from me.
The empath was a priest. His order had been charged with protecting special creatures. Special creatures like her who were being hunted for their tails by an old sea captain who wanted the gift of immortality.
Mermaid magic came from their tails. In the sea mermaids had magic, once on land they would take human form in every aspect.
Seeing I meant no ill will he allowed me to join forces with him and I helped save a whole colony of mermaids. But disaster struck when one of the captain’s men broke into their hideaway and killed him.
Before he died, he gave me his soul. The mermaid he’d been trying to save cried and gave me her tears, the only other thing that contained magic because of the rarity of it. Mermaids did not cry because it stole part of their essence.
That was just one of my encounters. There were so many more stories like that. Stories in line with me collecting my rare and hard to find items, and others that were not. But equally as painful. I’d watched people die, people I couldn’t save.
People I couldn’t heal.
I might have been able to walk like a sentinel, talk like one too, act like one and I still retained some of the magic I once had.
But, the darkness in me stole away from all the things I used to be able to do. Like heal. I couldn’t heal people anymore, and I’d lost the gift of foresight.
That was why I’d took on the mission to fix me.
The soul of the empath and the mermaid tears were the first items I collected and the first time I’d had hope in years.
And here I was with the last item.
“Gift from Gabriel.” Malachi nodded.
“I don’t get it.” I didn’t.
“If you help a way will be provided for you to go to Kolai.”
“Why in the hell can’t he just help me properly by curing me?”
“We don’t have that power. Those sorts of things require too much technicalities and will cause a rippling effect we won’t be able to control. Going to Kolai is the only way because that way you control your destiny.”
“Fine, so that means I can go now right?”
“Dante, didn’t you notice something?” He frowned.
I shook my head. “Your prophecy stated that Kolai will appear before you when you are in possession of all six items and you are pure of heart.”
I pressed my lips together. Sure enough I had all six items, but ...
It looked like I didn’t quite meet the criteria to be pure in heart.
“The woman. If you save her, she will provide the path for you to be pure in heart.”
