Chapter 6-An Eternal Fortress
They began walking forward
along the remarkably flat cobblestone street.
Irgen and Idus listened to the merry echoing of pattering feet as their
footsteps rebounded off the walls.
Suddenly Idus had something strange happen to him, which hadn’t occurred
in almost an entire night…He had a thought, well more of a question really, but
still his mind grasped something…
Something he considered a rather large step.
“Er, Thomas, or Blackington,
or whatever. Isn’t this, well kind of a big castle, here in the middle of the
hills, can’t people see it here?” Idus
looked quite beside himself with joy that was the first intelligent sentence he
had uttered in over a day.
“Ah…” Blackington paused before flashing a jovial
smile. “I never properly introduced
myself now did I? My name is Thomas
Tarentus Blackington. But you may just
call me Thomas. And you see Idus, this
entire fortress was built by magic, which means that no Spartan can see or even
touch it for that matter. It doesn’t
exist according to their imagination.”
He lingered for a second before continuing, “And here we have one of the
six fortresses of eternity.” He paused
again as though waiting for the full affect of what he had just said to hit
them, but they just looked confusedly back at him. “You’re not telling me that you haven’t heard
of the fortresses of eternity?” His
voice sounded shocked. They both shook
their heads and he exclaimed. “Good
lord. You two really have been kept in
the dark for your whole lives haven’t you?”
“It would appear so,” came
the sarcastic voice of Irgen. He grinned
just as Idus had, at finally being able to speak again.
“Well… where to begin, where
to begin? Well I suppose I can tell you that
originally there were only four fortresses but the last two, one of which is
this one, were made in secret, although they all have the same deep magic woven
around them. They were built as safe
havens for mages. So no one, whom the
current owner of the fortress does not want to allow in, will be able to find
it. Even those who have seen it before
and know where it is. However, the owner
has to have good reason, bordering on protective reasons, as to why that person
shouldn’t be admitted to the haven, for that person not to find it.” He had uttered all these words with almost no
breath. It seemed as though he was
trying to tell them something he thought they couldn’t grasp, because they did
not understand this magical world.
He surveyed them with his
bright blue eyes for a second before finally saying, “Well, if you don’t quite
understand it yet. I’ll tell you the
whole story as soon as we enter the tower.”
And once again silence fell
over the group as they continued along the beaten path to the tower. Finally they reached the ancient stone door
and it swung gracefully open as if to say, “Welcome Home”. Blackington led the way into the tower and
everyone else followed suit until only Irgen and Idus were left outside. They gave each other a quick glance and they
seemed to feel in their hearts that all they had ever known, their lives of
sports, school, and play, was at an end.
They both stiffened simultaneously, and with two rapidly beating hearts,
they stepped boldly into the tower.
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