The World Walkers: Athare: Riordan: Making Worlds? (part 3)

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There was a knock on the door that wasn’t entirely unexpected, but Riordan still wasn’t sure if he was ready to talk to Emrys. From the beginning Riordan had been certain that Emrys was other person who should be in charge of the creation of the worlds and yet there was something about Emrys that made him very uncomfortable. Riordan had a feeling it was because Emrys knew Athare in a way that none of them should have. He could tell when it was going to rain, what the could scavenge safely, how the moon phases working, and had said, more than once, it was because he’d dreamt of Athare before they got there. It wasn’t impossible that he was telling the truth, Riordan knew that, yet there was still this doubt in his mind.
Finally, pushing aside his feelings, he called, “Come in.”

He didn’t turn to look at Emrys, but it was obvious from the silence who it was. “You want the truth, don’t you?” Emrys sighed. “It won’t matter if I tell you that you’re not ready, will it?” Riordan shook his head without speaking. “Okay.” Emrys crossed the room and sat opposite Riordan. Their eyes met, just for a moment, before Emrys looked down at the table. “I did dream of Athare, but that’s because she brought me here. She knew we were coming, thanks to one of her future selves, and she wanted to help prepare me for what was coming. They have no understanding of what they asked us to do.

“We have just as little. In an attempt to help us, knowing that the most likely next step was going to be, she spent hours talking to me about the Web, about the worlds that worked and didn’t work, and the choices we were going to need to make. The journal I kept from that time is here if you want to look through it, because I thought you’d want proof that I’m telling you the truth, and I’m going to need an ally. No one is going to want to listen to me because I’m the weird one, but you they trust.”

“Eventually they’ll come to trust you to.” Riordan studied Emrys. “That was why you were always so hard to get to open up.”

“None of the secrets I kept were ones I could tell. We were all so certain that Mab would never change her mind, that we’d be trapped on Kalinia until we died, that I didn’t believe this would happen. Athare told me it was a possibility that all the work we’d done had been for nothing, because our Queen would keep listening to her elders and never accept the truth. She didn’t want our world to be dying any more than we did, so she let her elders and her mother convince her that things were going to get back to normal, and she did her best to keep going, no matter how hard it got. I admire her for that, because she did keep going, and that couldn’t have been easy.”

Mirrored from K. A. Webb Writing.

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>> Riordan had been certain that Emrys was other person who should be in charge <<

That should say "another" above.