Stranger From The Past

Novel By: Warrior of Chi
Fantasy

Tags: Possession, Possessive, Manipulation, Manipulative, Mage, Magic, Power, Loneliness, Alone, Death, Life, Soul, Pain, Distance, Friends, Family, Love, Friend, Hate, Enemies, Allies, Stranger, Past, From, The

Bryce was twelve when she touched her father, and her touch stole his soul. The Order of the Held came for her, and took her from her life and everyone in it.
Now, seven years later, she has been trained to use the possessive power which lives within her; and to avoid contact with a human's skin. Now, seven years later, the Order of the Changed is on the move once more, and the Held must rise up to stop them from destroying the world.
Now, seven years later, the hunt for one of the most powerful Manipulative Mages ever born has led Bryce back to the town where everything started; where she stole her father's existence.
And she can not imagine how hard it will be to keep her distance... View table of contents...

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Submitted:Oct 28, 2009 Reads: 85 Comments: 2 Likes: 1

Chapter One

The forest was dark. No light; not the moon, not the stars, not the cities which huddled so very far away; could reach beneath the spreading canopies of the willows there. The only glow came from the river itself; a strange, ominous light in a soft, almost poisonous shade of green. The water slid away, around rocks too smooth and moss too dark, beneath the trees and down into a tunnel formed by the roots of an ancient maple.

The maple seemed almost out of place here, among the trailing strands of the river-side growth. It held its branches high and proud. Its trunk was shadowed, as though haunted, by the glimmer of the stream and the silence of the night. And curled into the safety of its branches, just out of reach of that terrible light, was a girl.