world is going on? I’ve seen some things in the last several days that are so far beyond real that I’m half expecting to wake up from a strange dream. The light show in that horrible cell and the - She was at a loss for words, unable to describe what she had heard and seen as Shane and Ari had removed the Allyant influence from her - whatever it was you did, and the sudden relocation to where ever it was that Roger was and now I’m herein Lu Y Onton hundreds of milos from Jehhet.
Placing an arm load of fruit on the counter Shane turned to Leslie. “Aunt Leslie, it’s good to see you again. I’m sorry we didn’t get to chat much on the boat,” at her blank look he added, “Where Roger was,” he explained. Continuing he said, “If you recall back when you , Ava, and I went to lunch when we first met I asked the question regarding what would the law be in regards to creating one’s own artifacts?” Leslie nodded. “As it turns out, I figured out how to do it.”
Leslie’s jaw dropped and she brought her delicate hands to her face in wonder. “This is incredible, this will change the world. No wonder we are at war, how did the king find out?”
Shane shrugged and Ari dropping the rest of the fruit into the sink interjected. “I don’t think he does. The war started over the smuggling and Allion’s desire to control the artifact trade. I had no idea that Shane could do what he did until we met up at the Ox the night after the Warball championship. If I didn’t know then Allion didn’t either. By the time we got back from trying to rescue Ava off of the island, he not only had created magic that hadn’t been seen in over two thousand years, he began teaching me how to do some of the same things.”
“Rescue Ava,” Leslie jumped to her feet and turned to Louisa. “Louisa is she okay, what happened?”
Louisa held her hand patting it calmingly, “Sit down Leslie , Ava is fine. A lot has transpired while you were away. You need to rest you’ve had a trying day.”
“Like I was saying,” Ari continued. “ I met up with Shane just before it all occurred the day before the war started. A lot has happened in a rather short time. I’ll let you visit with Gerard and Louisa and they can fill in the blanks. Shane and I have a meeting this afternoon with the Luion Department of War so we need to leave.
Leslie sat and shook her head , “So all that light and those miraculous things I saw in the dungeons were due to artifacts you created?”
Shane nodded, “more or less.”
“ Amazing… simply amazing,” muttered Leslie. “Ava said that if anyone could do it, it would be you. I was skeptical but she was very confident in your abilities. So you made some of your own artifacts to find and save me - Simply amazing.”
“It’s a little more complex than that but essentially yes, we used magic to find, rescue, and heal you,” Shane summarized.
“Heal?” queried Leslie and Louisa at the same time.
“You had been infected with a very dangerous type of magic that is used by a group of people called Allyant’s. They are enemies of the Elios and Luion from millennia ago and it looks like they may also be behind the war; having some sort of control over the King of Infin.”
“Is she going to be okay,” asked Louisa with concern looking for signs of injury?
“She will be fine,” interjected Ari as he pulled out his time piece. “I’m sorry but we need to go, there’s a war on and Shane and I have already missed several meetings with the Prime Minister and we can’t afford to have Shew giving a briefing without us. Shane do you have a portal to the PM’s office?”
Thinking of the teleport glyph that his father had shown him and knowing that Ari was up to some minor glyph mastery, Shane drew a glyph in front of Ari and one in front of himself glowing in the air at eye level with Louisa and Leslie looking on in wonder. “You remember
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