The
Valkea was veiled when Flindra's mind reached her so she couldn't see the
monster, but she recognized the power of the Nameless Ones. She felt the numbing cold of Evil surrounding
the Valkea but snapped her sphere filled with the essence of the Spirit into
position before her mind and soul recoiled from the contact. Kalmar and Gegen were with her - as close as
her own thoughts and she rejoiced at having such capable and resourceful allies
fighting with her. Their powers joined
with hers so smoothly and uniformly that there was no separation between
them. They were truly three fighting as
one.
The
Valkea was caught at the center of the power sphere and suddenly was confused
for she couldn't direct her thoughts to the Darkness when she was surrounded by
light and hope and love. The situation
stunned her into immobility for she didn't know what had happened and she had
no inkling of how to fight back any more than snow could battle the heat of the
summer sun.
"Hold
her," Flindra broadcasted to the men.
Without
waiting for a response from them she drove her thoughts deeper into her
awareness of the Divine Presence. The
Spirit was pure love, power, beauty, and an infinite reservoir of light and all
things good. Flindra contemplated these
things and felt the Valkea's power fade ever so much. She still remained unable to break out of the
imprisoning barrier emplaced around her.
"Carra's
escort has gone," Gegen announced for he'd kept watch while Flindra and
Kalmar focused their efforts on containing the Valkea. "Let's press our attack," he urged.
Nearly
at that same instant, the Valkea surprised them with a stinging blow, which
nearly overwhelmed their efforts. The
Champions' barrier around her held, but the atmosphere within it shifted,
becoming cold and dark and filled to capacity with a sense of utter despair.
What
Flindra hadn't considered when she planned on isolating the Valkea from the
power of the Nameless Ones was the fact that the Valkea's heart served as a
portal to the Darkness. She was linked
to the Enemy so completely that she was a point where the Kwetwer could access
the world. Now their Evil flowed forth
to do battle. The Valkea was useful; few
in the world had reached her level of power so she was worth defending.
Flindra
could sense the shadowy presence of the Kwetwer in their reality beyond the
Valkea as they became aware of the attack and began to funnel their power
through her and into the world. She
recognized this evil for she'd felt the mind numbing horror before, having
experienced such an intimate contact with the essence of the Nameless Ones when
she had battled with the evil seed. She
held fast against the maelstrom of madness, but Kalmar and Gegen recoiled from
the soul-singeing, mind-ripping, and sanity-destroying thoughts of the
Kwetwer. Both had skirted the awareness
of Darkness during their apprenticeship with their crystals, but neither man
was prepared to face the full force of this flood of malice. No one could imagine the full malevolence of
the Nameless Ones until facing them directly.
"Hold
fast!" she commanded as she projected her thoughts around them to anchor
them to sanity. "Think of the
Spirit and all that you hold most dear in this life." She took the full brunt of the Kwetwer's
attack to give the others a chance to recover.
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