The World Walkers: Quiar: Lucille: Hot to Moderate (part 2)

[k_a_webb]

Part 1

The only reason Lucille was contemplating not choosing Quiar as one of her worlds was fear. When she stepped onto the world she wasn’t expecting anything more than normal and then she’d felt the magic of the world winding around her. As she stood in the vortex, unable to believe what had happened, she’d heard the voice of Quiar. It told her that she was needed. She didn’t pretend to know why she was needed and so far her visits hadn’t really been any different to how she’d expected them to be, but every time she stepped onto the world she knew that something might happen.

Maybe that was why Quiar had spoken to her. Lucille had asked a couple of the Walkers she trusted if they’d ever heard the worlds that had chosen them speak. None of them had, but then none of them had stayed being Walkers for very long. That was something she wanted to avoid, hence her fear of choosing Quiar as one of her worlds. She knew it was possible that other worlds might chose her too and she couldn’t decide what to do about it. It was obvious to the Walkers that something was changing, there was a reason so many Walkers were being chosen by the worlds, a reason so many of the newly qualified Walkers were being charged with crimes, but no one knew what it was.

Lucille tugged the blanket tighter around her. The room she was in was almost entirely empty apart from the few items she was permitted to keep with her. Everything else was back at her cottage and she wished she had one of Leolin’s journals with her. They’d been a gift from Carver, when she’d told him what had happened to her on Quiar, because he thought she needed them more.When she was done with them, he’d told her, she needed to pass them on to someone else who needed them. From what she could tell the journals had been passed from person to person since Leolin’s death.

Throughout the journals there were notes in other hands, where readers of the journals had added their own notes. Carver had, the owner – Lucille was almost certain it was Azure – before him had, and Carver had told Lucille to write her own notes in it too. If the Walkers, whether they were natural or created by the Council, kept sharing the information they had it would help those who got lost. Like Leolin’s sister, who Lucille believed was a girl she’d grown up with. Unfortunately the journals never mentioned time travel, but that could have simple been because Leolin didn’t think people would believe him if he wrote about something that strange.

Sighing, Lucille reached for her clothes. Instead of thinking too much about everything she needed to have breakfast and then work on her report about the change in seasons on Quiar. Occasionally she couldn’t help wondering if her mentor was a true Walker, but it wasn’t something she could ever bring up in conversation in case she was wrong.

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.