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“Why you—”
“Stop.” Rand caught the back of Sage’s shirt and tugged him back. “Now isn’t the time for games. Don’t you see the bigger issue? We have to get this back to Yunez and how are we supposed to do that if we can’t touch it?”
“Your earth/weather powers?” I asked hopefully.
Cabbie’s expression flattened like he wasn’t impressed with my answer, but hell, what other options were there?
“If there was enough wind here, then sure, I could try and blow it up to the portal, but the air is completely stale in here.” Jari looked up as if he would suddenly find that gust of air he was looking for.
“I’m a metal worker, remember? My powers don’t work on stone.” Sage twisted his lips to the side.
“Well, shit.”
We all turned in shock to Rand.
“Did you just curse?”
He startled, then shrugged sheepishly. “I’m racking my brain for a solution. I’m coming up short too.”
I studied the statue. It was something you might expect to encounter at a modern art museum. It wasn’t anything perfect or chiseled. The form of the stone itself was naturally beautiful, and the air got thicker the closer you stood to the rock.
Stepping forward, I slowly raised my hand. I hadn’t even realized I was doing it until I laid my palm flat on the stone and it didn’t hurt me.
“Hm. That could be useful,” Cabbie whispered to one of the Cherries who mumbled their agreement.
I wanted to tear my gaze away from the statue, but I couldn’t. The warmth traveling up my arm and through my body was just too much, felt too good, to break away.
This was different than when I was touched it before. More enticing.
More exciting.
Then the world around me faded as a new scene unfolded.
Brody ruffled the hair of a young boy, smiling down at him. “The world will be different one day, Bean.”
“I hate that name,” the kid rasped. His hair was long and stringy. No life shone through at all.
“What? But you love beans so much. It’s practically the only thing you’ll eat.” Brody dropped his hand. The smile slipping off his face as a profound sadness filled his eyes.
“That’s because I can’t stomach anything else.” He lifted his hand and I gasped. He wasn’t a little boy. He was a teenager at least, but he was so emaciated, and gaunt that he appeared younger.
“I know. But we’re working on it. How about I call you Shadow. Does that work better?”
“Shadow?” A deep divet appeared between his eyes as one side of his mouth turned down.
“Yes, shadow. You’ve been raised in the shadows, and when you get your revenge, you’ll do it, from the shadows. Because that’s where your powers lie. Fitting, right?”
The kid thought that over so hard, I could practically see the wheels turning in his mind. Then he nodded. “Okay, you may call me shadow.”
The scene swirled again, dissolving completely until I was left with only the statue in front of me.
“Iss?” Sage stepped up beside me, fluttering the back of his hand across my cheek. “Vision?”
“I think so…” I blinked a few times. Why show me that? The few times I’d experienced anything with the sight, it had been centered around people who were around me or touching me.
But Brody wasn’t here. And I had no idea who the kid was.
“It’s the statue. It’s bringing your powers to the surface,” Rand started, then his face lit. “This is what we need. You’ll be able to master your powers and we’ll be able to take care of Rainer and the shadow society in no time.”
