THE ETERNAL ONES (THE GILDED ONES #3) BY NAMINA FORNA – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Namina Forna
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The end of the world begins not with a scream but with a mist, spreading
sinister tendrils on a dark, moonlit night.
Deep as I am inside Ixa’s mind, I don’t even notice. There’s just too
much to experience. I may be able to see only the faintest shades of color
through my blue-scaled, feline-like companion’s eyes, but even then,
everything I glimpse is breathtaking. Groves of soaring silver trees sprout
from pink stone hills. Scrubby purple grasses cling to their roots, tiny
iridescent lizards darting across them. Glass flitters. They, like the silver
trees and the purple grass, are native only to Gar Nasim, the haunting,
remote island that is my current location.
Finally, after three months of running and hiding, pursuers constantly at
our backs, I’m here on the island that Anok, the only goddess who’s still our
ally, told us to seek. The island where, she told me, I would find my way to
Mother and, through her, the way to unlock my full power so I can defeat
the gods.
Except there’s no sign of Mother. Not even the faintest trace.
I sniff at a nearby tree, nose flaring with irritation when it immediately
puffs a noxious odor in my direction. Trees and plants, they all have
defenses invisible to the naked eye—after spending most of the last few
weeks inside Ixa’s mind, I understand that now. And these silver trees, in
particular, are quick to express their displeasure.
The tree releases another puff of odor our way, and Ixa wrinkles our
nose, the motion sending a tickling sensation down the rest of our body.
Stinky, he says.
He’s in here too, the shadow just behind my consciousness. I don’t
know how it works precisely, the way we share one body, one mind. Only
that it does. And that while I’m here, I don’t have to be in my own body. In
the wounded, golden ruin that’s all that’s left of me after my confrontation
with the Gilded Ones, the false goddesses I once thought were my mothers,
all those weeks ago.
Britta calls it possession, what I do to Ixa. She says it’s as if I’m one of
the demons written about in the Infinite Wisdoms, the false holy scrolls
whose corrupt teachings I once followed to the letter. But she doesn’t
understand. Ixa likes me here, welcomes me into his body. And I, for one,
am grateful.
Whenever I’m in Ixa’s body, I’m free. Free of pain. Free of the torment
that plagues my every waking moment.
For the few moments or hours that I’m here, I can just be.
I lope to the next tree, nostrils already expanding to catch the scents in
the air. Have to keep moving, have to keep going. This is the steepest hill in
Gar Nasim, the site of the Old City. Around us rise the ruins of the longabandoned city of rose-hued stone, whose fallen buildings and the golden
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