Glow of the Everflame by Penn Cole EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Penn Cole
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A hallucination.
It had to be a hallucination.
That was the only explanation. The visions I’d been carefully avoiding
for a decade were back, and I only had myself to blame.
For years, I’d taken a regimen of a rare substance known as flameroot to
ward off the wild, impossible delusions I’d developed as a young girl—
delusions that I could feel things, do things, that mortals like me should not
be able to feel and do.
Before disappearing without a trace almost seven months ago, my
mother—the best healer in Lumnos, Realm of Light and Shadows, one of
the nine realms of Emarion—had been obsessed with ensuring I took my
daily dose. She warned me the visions could come back if I missed even a
single day.
Well, I’d certainly missed more than a day.
Several weeks had passed since I’d hurled my entire supply of the
distinctive red powder into the sea for reasons that, even now, I struggled to
explain.
Perhaps because of the way it dulled my emotions and left me feeling
hollow and cold, or perhaps because of the mysterious black-eyed woman
who cornered me in a dark alley and urged me to give it up after revealing
family secrets she never should have known.
At the time, the flameroot had represented everything I hated about my
life—every loss, every mystery, every invisible harness that held me back in
my sheltered, mundane life. Throwing it away had made me feel free in a
way I’d never experienced in all my life.
But now, doubled over on my hands and knees in a circle of smoldering,
newly blackened grass outside my family home, with my younger halfbrother Teller staring in shock at the space just above my head, I felt
anything but free. And the flameroot, my only chance at salvation from this
insanity I had so recklessly invited, now lay at the bottom of the Sacred
Sea.
Panic gripped me by the throat as Teller’s words haunted my thoughts.
Diem—you’re wearing the Crown. You’ve been selected. You are the
new Queen of Lumnos.
“I’m going mad,” I said hoarsely. “I’ve lost my mind, and there’s
nothing I can do to stop it.”
“You’re not going mad,” Teller said, though his expression was less
than convincing. “I can see the Crown myself—it’s floating right over you.”
I reached up to rip it away, my fingers clawing for purchase, but I felt
only cold, empty air.
Teller’s face grew brighter as he approached me, illuminated by an
unearthly light. I whipped around to search the shadowy forest for its source
before realizing the light had come from me—from the space above my
head, and from a silvery glow emanating from my skin.
Another delusion.
A hopeless whimper escaped my lips.
“I’ll get Father,” Teller said. “If he can see it, too, then—”
“No!” I shouted. Our father, Andrei, was already furious with me. The
fight we’d had—oh gods, the horrible things I’d said to him…
You are not my father!
Where is our mother? Why did you stop looking for her? Why haven’t
you grieved her loss?
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