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    Fractured Darkness
    Fractured Darkness
    Fractured Darkness
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    Fractured Darkness

    By Viola Grace

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    Noma feels the pain of separation from her sister keenly, but the light that she stumbles across belongs to a man with beautiful eyes.

    In a city of the rejected, she finds a purpose, and in the investigation of her destiny, she takes people with her out of the shadows and into the light.

    The Citadel takes shape under her focus, and when it comes time for their first actions, her training on Resicor is used to help the talents that it had kept under control. It goes to show that education is never a waste.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereXtasy Books Inc
    Release dateNov 16, 2014
    ISBN9781487400798
    Fractured Darkness
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    Viola Grace

    Viola Grace (aka Zenina Masters) is a Canadian sci-fi/paranormal romance writer with ambitions to keep writing for the rest of her life. She specializes in short stories because the thrill of discovery, of all those firsts, is what keeps her writing.An artist who enjoys a story that catches you up, whirls you around and sets you down with a smile on your face is all she endeavours to be. She prefers to leave the drama to those who are better suited to it, she always goes for the cheap laugh.

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      Fractured Darkness - Viola Grace

      A woman out of time lands on a world that has potential to become a weapon for the future.

      Noma feels the pain of separation from her sister keenly, but the light that she stumbles across belongs to a man with beautiful eyes.

      In a city of the rejected, she finds a purpose, and in the investigation of her destiny, she takes people with her out of the shadows and into the light.

      The Citadel takes shape under her focus, and when it comes time for their first actions, her training on Resicor is used to help the talents that it had kept under control. It goes to show that education is never a waste.

      The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement, including infringement without monetary gain, is investigated by the FBI and is punishable by up to 5 years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000.

      Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage the electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Fractured Darkness

      Copyright © 2014 Viola Grace

      ISBN: 978-1-4874-0079-8

      Cover art by Carmen Waters

      All rights reserved. Except for use in any review, the reproduction or utilization of this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher.

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      Fractured Darkness

      Tales of the Citadel Book 36

      By

      Viola Grace

      Chapter One

      Noma twitched the edges of her robes and followed her sister into the boardroom. There was a sinister touch in the air. Something was happening.

      Noma really wished she had worn her more comfortable underwear; she hated to run in something that wasn’t comfortable.

      Trala and the administrator had a few words, and then, all hell broke loose.

      Noma fought with the guards who grabbed her arms and watched her sister for clues. The moment that Trala went over the edge of the crevice, Noma was right behind her.

      They clasped hands as they fell, and Noma’s darkness flared out to slow their fall, as did Trala’s light.

      Noma’s link to Resicor was through her connection to her sister. While Trala could talk directly to their world, Noma only got the most occasional whisper in her mind. Most communication was done while she slept and in the form of tutorials that Noma could not mention to her sister. Trala walked a very different path, and it was important that she not be distracted from its approach. Their lives indentured to their government was bad enough. Their future was going to be theirs alone, but they would not be together.

      Resicor contacted Trala with a low whisper, Is it time?

      "I hope so, because I just lost my job."

      Noma rolled her eyes. Funny, Trala. I lost my job, too.

      "Ladies, ladies. We have a job to do. Are you ready?"

      As one, they intoned, We are ready.

      "Excellent. Join with me, children, but this is going to hurt."

      Noma clutched her sister’s hands as the light exploded around them and she was in the antithesis of her element.

      And then came the pain.

      Noma fought to stand up. Her body was flat on the ground and her skin burned with energy. She hadn’t gotten the mind of Resicor, but it had split the power between the two of them.

      Resicor, you trust me with all this?

      There is no one else beyond my Avatar that I feel needs or deserves this more.

      I know you have briefed me on what I need to do, but I am not sure I am up to it.

      I am. I will watch over your sister, so do not worry. You will do what you are destined to do and you will flourish. I have already seen it.

      On the other side of the cavern, Trala was stirring, her light flaring in short bursts.

      Trala stood and looked around the cavern. The world was bright and vivid through her eyes.

      This feels better. How are you adapting, Trala?

      Noma could hear them both as if they were whispering into her ears.

      I feel fine, Resicor. Where is Noma?

      Noma began to stride across the cavern now that she was standing, her shoulders back. I am here, Trala. We are one.

      Resicor was filled with joy. We are one, and soon, Noma will be where she was always meant to be and Trala will take control of the surface.

      Sorrow ran through their link, and the sisters took each other’s hands or, rather, they tried to.

      Sparks flew the moment that they touched.

      What the hell? Noma heard her sister echo her thought.

      You are night, she is day; there can only be transition between you.

      Noma looked to her twin and saw her own sadness reflected in eyes that swirled with brilliant blue.

      Their thoughts merged and clung together. If they couldn’t hug in person, they would hug in their thoughts.

      I have prepared

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