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and calm. Calling him to healing.
He bounded to the top of the three wide stairs. Must reach the music; must touch the music; must …
But the music washer. Erin stood, arms held up to the sky, head thrown back. A silvery light played around her body and soared upward from her hands as the notes she sang soared upward from her throat. She sang a wordless melody of love and loss and homecoming. She sang and somehow, deep inside Ven's soul, he knew she sang of healing.
Of healing.
Riley.
He glanced down at her pale, still face, resting on his arm in the same unconscious state into which she'd lapsed when they'd arrived at the Temple. He didn't think, didn't worry, didn't wonder.
He'd simply acted. In one leap he flew from the Temple doorway to the bottom of the outside steps. In another leap he stood in front of Erin and placed his precious bundle on the ground at her feet. Kneeling in front of her, he turned his face in supplication up to Erin, to the gem singer from legend who had somehow sung her way into his heart, and he spoke a single word.
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"Please."
The song continued to pour from her lips, but she slowly bent her head to gaze at him.
Wildness raged in the burning intensity of her blue eyes, and the planes of her face were cast in glowing marble. She was suddenly more goddess than witch: terrible and beautiful and pitiless. She looked down upon him, and she sang.
He tried again, tried to reach the softness—the humanity—buried below the hardness of the living gemstone she had become. He tried again because he loved Riley as a sister.
Loved her and her child more than his own life.
He tried again because part of his soul demanded that he do so.
"Erin," he said, wondering how the simple voice of a warrior could be heard through a song fit to grace the stars in the night sky. "Erin, please. She's dying."
Slowly, ever so slowly, Erin knelt down until her face was a mere hand span from Riley's abdomen, and put her hands over the exact place where the tiny baby grew inside. The silvery light poured forth from Erin's mouth and from the aura surrounding her and over and around Riley. Somewhere, far distant, Ven thought he heard Alaric shouting, or maybe Con-Ian, but he didn't care, it didn't matter, all that mattered was the light burning in Erin's incandescent blue eyes.
She sang to Riley, and she sang to Riley's baby, and it lasted mere seconds. Or it lasted through the birth of a universe. But moments later—millennia later—she finally stopped singing. Ven was instantly bereft, as though his still-pulsing heart had been ripped from his body, and his throat ached at the loss of her song.
Erin lifted a hand to touch his face. "Oh, Ven," she began, and then her eyes rolled back in their sockets and she pitched forward. He caught her and lifted her up and away before she fell on Riley, and he touched his lips to Erin's forehead.
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"Please," he said, but this time he said it for an entirely different reason, one that he didn't quite understand himself.
On the ground at his feet, Riley sat up, smiled, and stretched, eyes and cheeks glowing with health and vitality. "Wow, I feel better than I have in months. What happened?"
Alaric and Conlan rushed over to Riley, with Marie hard on their heels. Everyone shouted questions at Ven, but he ignored them all and headed back for the Temple and its inner sanctuary that no man had ever been allowed to enter. The Temple maidens had always spoken of the Cave of Gems and, somehow, he knew it was exactly what Erin needed.
He lifted her precious head as he walked and touched his lips to her pulse and felt it slowing…
Slowing…
Stopped.
Nearly blinded by the burning in his eyes, he almost missed the hidden doorway, but then Marie was standing in front of him, ripping a
He bounded to the top of the three wide stairs. Must reach the music; must touch the music; must …
But the music washer. Erin stood, arms held up to the sky, head thrown back. A silvery light played around her body and soared upward from her hands as the notes she sang soared upward from her throat. She sang a wordless melody of love and loss and homecoming. She sang and somehow, deep inside Ven's soul, he knew she sang of healing.
Of healing.
Riley.
He glanced down at her pale, still face, resting on his arm in the same unconscious state into which she'd lapsed when they'd arrived at the Temple. He didn't think, didn't worry, didn't wonder.
He'd simply acted. In one leap he flew from the Temple doorway to the bottom of the outside steps. In another leap he stood in front of Erin and placed his precious bundle on the ground at her feet. Kneeling in front of her, he turned his face in supplication up to Erin, to the gem singer from legend who had somehow sung her way into his heart, and he spoke a single word.
Atlantis Awakening – Warriors of Poseidon 02
Page 82 of 296
"Please."
The song continued to pour from her lips, but she slowly bent her head to gaze at him.
Wildness raged in the burning intensity of her blue eyes, and the planes of her face were cast in glowing marble. She was suddenly more goddess than witch: terrible and beautiful and pitiless. She looked down upon him, and she sang.
He tried again, tried to reach the softness—the humanity—buried below the hardness of the living gemstone she had become. He tried again because he loved Riley as a sister.
Loved her and her child more than his own life.
He tried again because part of his soul demanded that he do so.
"Erin," he said, wondering how the simple voice of a warrior could be heard through a song fit to grace the stars in the night sky. "Erin, please. She's dying."
Slowly, ever so slowly, Erin knelt down until her face was a mere hand span from Riley's abdomen, and put her hands over the exact place where the tiny baby grew inside. The silvery light poured forth from Erin's mouth and from the aura surrounding her and over and around Riley. Somewhere, far distant, Ven thought he heard Alaric shouting, or maybe Con-Ian, but he didn't care, it didn't matter, all that mattered was the light burning in Erin's incandescent blue eyes.
She sang to Riley, and she sang to Riley's baby, and it lasted mere seconds. Or it lasted through the birth of a universe. But moments later—millennia later—she finally stopped singing. Ven was instantly bereft, as though his still-pulsing heart had been ripped from his body, and his throat ached at the loss of her song.
Erin lifted a hand to touch his face. "Oh, Ven," she began, and then her eyes rolled back in their sockets and she pitched forward. He caught her and lifted her up and away before she fell on Riley, and he touched his lips to Erin's forehead.
Atlantis Awakening – Warriors of Poseidon 02
Page 83 of 296
"Please," he said, but this time he said it for an entirely different reason, one that he didn't quite understand himself.
On the ground at his feet, Riley sat up, smiled, and stretched, eyes and cheeks glowing with health and vitality. "Wow, I feel better than I have in months. What happened?"
Alaric and Conlan rushed over to Riley, with Marie hard on their heels. Everyone shouted questions at Ven, but he ignored them all and headed back for the Temple and its inner sanctuary that no man had ever been allowed to enter. The Temple maidens had always spoken of the Cave of Gems and, somehow, he knew it was exactly what Erin needed.
He lifted her precious head as he walked and touched his lips to her pulse and felt it slowing…
Slowing…
Stopped.
Nearly blinded by the burning in his eyes, he almost missed the hidden doorway, but then Marie was standing in front of him, ripping a
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