The Order of Ja’el — Chapter Six

A Weekly Sci-fi Fantasy Story Series

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Vlad awoke as the newly crowned King of the Sky Colonies, disappointed. He’d hoped he would feel different. From his dreams, however, nothing had changed. His mind shot to the same thought he had each morning when his eyes opened.

Tamana, where are you…?

It had seemed that Vlad’s sister was cursed for all her life. Their parents had kept her away from mostly everyone as a toddler when she began making claims that she could hear Ja’el’s voice. When asked at royal gatherings where the young child was, the family hashed together a story of strange threats on Tamana’s life as a direct attack on the parents. They claimed they needed to keep her secure. In Igo, given the aggressive disposition of the royals towards the Order and the people, such threats were not entirely unusual to receive.

Vlad never believed Tamana until he, too, started to hear Ja’el some five years ago. It had then confounded him that Tamana was able to heed Ja’el since birth and what it could possibly mean. Yesterday, he finally learnt what she was.

A Siddhi…

Squeezing his eyes shut, Vlad tried to escape the memory of the events that led to Tamana’s banishment to…