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A Trial of Sorcerers
Book One
Elise Kova
This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters and events in this book are the products of the authorâs imagination or are used fictitiously. Any similarity to real persons living or dead is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Published by Silver Wing Press
Copyright © 2021 by Elise Kova
All rights reserved. Neither this book, nor any parts within it may be sold or reproduced in any form without permission.
Cover Artwork by Marie Magny
Developmental Editing by Rebecca Faith Editorial
Line Editing and Proofreading by Melissa Frain
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-949694-19-2
ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-949694-31-4
eISBN: 978-1-949694-30-7
Contents
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Map of the Solaris Empire
Map of Meru
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
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Acknowledgments
About the Author: Elise Kova
Also by Elise Kova
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For the Tower Guard
The Solaris Empire
Map of Meru
1
The walls could talk, and they had secrets.
âŠwhereâŠgoingâŠ
I donâtâŠ
âŠkeep this just between usâŠ
Eira ignored the mutterings, keeping her head down and her nose in her book. The words were nothing more than magically trapped whispers of people who werenât thereâpeople who might not have been there for hours or even decades. They were her companions and her torturers. Eira fought to suppress and ignore the voices because when sheâd tried to talk about them, no one believed her.
No one else could hear them.
She ascended the main walkway of the Tower of Sorcerers, a sloping path that wound like a corkscrew between lecture halls and libraries in the center and apprentice dormitory rooms on the outside. People brushed past her, quiet in contrast to the cacophony that threatened to deafen her if she let her magic run awry and unchecked.
Instead, Eira tried to fill her mind with the words of the book she was reading. They painted pictures of a land far awayâthe Crescent Continent, Meru. A land filled with magic vastly different than hers, and peoples that seemed as if they were straight out of a folktale. It was easy for her to place herself beyond her body, imagining standing on those distant shores, until a voice saidâ
âŠkill our sovereignâŠ
She stopped in her tracks. Two apprentices emerged from a storeroom, whispering amongst themselves. The man wore Tower robes like herâno collar, loose sleeves to the elbows, hem falling at the small of his back. The womanâs robes had capped sleeves and a high collar. A Waterrunner and Firebearer, Adam and Noelle, also known as the Towerâs âpower coupleââand the last people Eira ever wanted to see.
âWhatâre you staring at, freak?â Adam, the Waterrunner, said.
âIâm sorry, what?â Eira asked calmly, slipping her book into her satchel so they couldnât turn her reading about Meruâher passionâinto more ammunition to be used against her.
âIs she deaf now? Wasnât she the one who âheard voicesâ all the time?â Adam scoffed and looked to Noelle, who gave a snicker and tucked a length of dark tresses behind her ear.
âPerhaps she was talking to her imaginary friends and couldnât hear us?â Noelle suggested.
âThat it?â Adam took a step closer to Eira.
Eira looked at him from toe to head. She stared at the tip of his hooked nose to avoid his dark brown eyes. Just like Alyss had told her to do so she wouldnât be intimidated. âI thought I heard one of you say something about the emperor.â
He laughed, a grating and terrible sound. A laugh Eira knew wellâŠa laugh he reserved for at her. âDo I look like someone who would talk politics?â
âNo.â Eira shook her head. âI suppose not. Youâd have to have half a brain to have an opinion on politics.â She tore her eyes away and started back up the tower.
Adam grabbed her elbow, snarling, âWhat did you say?â
âLet me go,â Eira said quietly. Her magic swelled at the offending contact; if he held on to her much longer heâd be swept away by it, as helpless as a child in a rip current.
âYou think you can just insult me and walk away?â
âCome on, Adam.â Noelle grabbed the arm not holding Eira in place.
âItâs not insulting you if itâs true,â Eira said softly.
âSay that again!â Tides of magic rolled off of him, uncontrolled, unstoppable. Eira felt like the moon, spinning around him with her words. Pulling him from one direction to the next was all too easy. Making him feel whatever she wanted him to feelâ
Stop.
Eira closed her eyes and sighed softly, trying to ward off the dark depths she was sinking into. It was a place she could never risk going. âIâm sorry. Now let me go, Adam, please.â
âIâm notââ
âSheâs not worth it.â Noelle regarded Eira warily from the corner of her eye. âYou know what she did three years ago.â
Because of you. I didnât mean to. If you hadnât⊠The words still bubbled up in her, as horrible and dark as the memory of that day. But Eira was eighteen now. She no longer had to say everything that crossed her mind.
Silence was often the best path forward in a noisy world. Stasis and quiet and numb.
âWhatâs going on here?â a familiar voice interjected. All three of them turned to face the speaker. Adamâs hand quickly fell from Eiraâs elbow.
âNothing,
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