Board Thread:Short Stories and Fanfictions/@comment-73.158.79.161-20191120053720

Chapter 1 ......................................................................................................................................................

"Stellarlune," Oraile breathed, her voice no softer than a whisper. Sophie felt the anticipation and excitement bubbling inside of her, frothing and churning. She felt lightheaded and giddy, but her expression twisted with shock as the blonde Councillor suddenly doubled over, groaning.

"Oraile?" Sophie grabbed the Councillor's hand, diving into her mind as the memory began to play.

Memory starts ..................................

"Councillor Rayna," Councillor Terik said smoothly as he got up from his seat to shake the raven-haired woman's hand. "It is a pleasure to see you again."

Memory-Oraile stood and hugged her oldest friend.

"You know fairly well I am not a part of the Council anymore," the woman said, slightly amused, as she hugged Oraile back. "It is nice to see you both, however, my friends."

"Why are you here?" Oraile asked, leaning back and straightening her pink gown, which was studded with amethysts.

"Because of stellarlune," Rayna answered, pulling back her sleeve and taking off her glove.

The entire right hand was stark white- much different from her well-toned olive skin- from the rest to the tips of her fingers, Black veins ran across her hand. Rayna shivered as Councillor Terik tapped it.

"It's a substance I discovered," Rayna explained. "I wanted to see what would happen... if I used light and shadows to poison water. So I got Caydie to help me." She flicked her hand, and an orb of shadows curdled on her palm.

"Shadowflux," she answered, reading their expressions. "I experimented with shadowflux, and I paid the price. With my hand."

"And a dear price that was indeed," Councillor Bronte said as he approached them. "And may I ask why you were doing so?"

Memory ends ..................................

Sophie yanked back, rubbing her own temples. The memory had ended in some sort of crackly, angry static- something blurry and wiped. "So... that just happened," she said, needing to breathe.

"That did just happen," Oraile said. "And I have so many questions."

"We do," Sophie realized, knowing they had just scored major points. They had retrieved a secret! From a cache!

"I need to hail the Council," Oraile said, patting Sophie awkwardly on the hand before she slowly faded away into the path of light she had just created.

Sophie was about to sink back under the Panakes tree before she noticed Dex, who was sprinting right towards her.

"Dex?" she asked, hurrying to him. "Is it something with Team Valiant?"

"Not at all, Lady Fos Boss," Dex said, flashing a quick smirk before he looked into her eyes. And Sophie felt an overwhelming rush of happiness and anticipation.

"Is it what I think it is?"

"Probably is." Dex paused. "Keefe's awake." 