Blades Of Light And Shadow Book 1 Choices Novels & Stories

The relic pulses, shadow-wraiths swarming, rifts flaring, and the council scatters, Lightweavers and Shadowkin drawing blades, their truce fracturing. I raise the blade, lunar light flaring, dim but fierce, and shout, “To the core! Protect it!” The group rallies—Cassia’s fire blazing, Maddox’s shadows coiling, Sylvara’s vines lashing, Renn’s relics glowing, Lysara, Zorath, and Valthor’s starlight blades flashing. Seris hesitates, her Lightweavers tense, but Kael’s Shadowkin charge, their void-blades meeting wraiths.

He bites my earlobe and pants his hot breath into my ear. And yet, instead of sinking his canines into my neck and completing his claim on me, he does something completely unexpected- the cruelest of acts. With his length still buried deep inside of me, his arms around my body and the evidence of his possession still marking my skin, he says the words- “I, Xavier Bellator, reject you Jane, as my mate. By the divine creed that is my word, I rebuke any and all bonds that tie my soul to yours”.

The lights in the room seemed to fade, and the children faded around her: Everything disappeared, and she was left alone in that cold, dark room. The metallic smell of blood laced through the room, and she turned around to be surrounded by the ghost of those children. They were covered in blood. Some of their arms and legs twisted abnormally and some sustained deep wounds. She wanted to run, but she couldn’t. Her feet were glued to where she stood. They all neared her in that circle, they wanted to hurt her: They walked closer to her. Closer: Closer:

they whispered. Baylee’s blood iced. “Blood,” she breathed. Her pup’s voice. Blood. Her legs almost gave. Heather’s free hand snapped out and grabbed Baylee’s elbow to steady her, jaw tight, eyes flaring with alarm. “Bay? Bay. Hey. Stay with me. What is it?” Baylee couldn’t look away from Ash. Her mouth felt too dry to speak. “Say that again.” Ash frowned faintly, confused, like they hadn’t quite understood their own words. “He will need blood,” they whispered. “Yours. The New Light’s. Either would open. Both would hold.” Their throat flexed. “He will take the easiest path offered.”

But it doesn’t sound human. The shadows surge violently around him. They strike at the silver light. The silver fights back brighter, sharper, blinding. The entire world becomes chaos. I see flashes of destruction. Burning forests. Blood soaking the earth. Wolves screaming in agony. Bodies scattered across battlefields. Moonlight shattered by darkness. Lucien stands at the center of it all. His black eyes staring directly at me. And then, I see it. A choice. Two paths. One where the silver light and shadows merge bringing balance and peace.

"I won’t let you win." Suddenly, the first wave of shadow creatures appeared, their shrieks breaking the stillness. Damon moved ahead of me at once, slicing through the shadowy shapes with his flashing blade. He yelled, "Stay behind me!" in a firm, piercing voice. With a savage snarl, Liora jumped into the battle, her claws slashing into the darkness. Kael trailed closely behind, shooting bursts of light at the beasts with his magically illuminating staff. I tried to keep going, but the creatures' dark shapes swirled about us like smoke, and they appeared to go on forever. The tattoos on my arms burned each time I raised the blade, yet the creatures flinched away from the light.

“What exactly do you think I am?” Nick looked away from her, he took in a gulp of air, “A Shadow Dweller, someone who can see both good and evil in people.” he said looking down at her hands. “Your hands are turning purple, so it's happening. When you come of age, you'll have to make a choice. Everyone does.”

The prize was the bomb, I knew that now, and I never took my eyes off it, and maybe I was meant to see it through. Noora was my friend, no matter her faults. She had seen me through some difficult times, and she didn’t deserve to die. In the end, she did the right thing. Hang on, wait … voices and … there! There is a light. Oh, no is this a trick? Do I follow the light or not?! I want to live damn it, I didn't just go through all this to give up. Someone was touching me, like rubbing on me, what the hell was that? It was warm and it felt good. Come on Rae open up, open up!