Free Ensnared (Sorcery and Science Book 5) by Ella Summers Page A

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CHAPTER EIGHT
    ~ The Magical Tapestry ~
    526AX August 20, Eclipse

    CAMERON WAS BORED. Bored and anxious. He wanted to set off to find Terra, but none of them had any idea where to go. The Book of Prophecy, the next piece of the puzzle, was supposed to be tucked away inside one of Elitia’s temples. The question was which one. And whether it was even still where it was supposed to be.
    While Jason stood staring at a tapestry on the wall of the Eclipse library, arms crossed stiffly, Cameron and Everett sat on the dusty stone floor playing Wilderness, an Elition strategy game. Cameron looked through the mud-caked window and was just able to make out the distorted streaks of falling rain. It snapped and crackled against the glass pane, marking the passing seconds.
    Jason had been staring at that tapestry all morning, and he’d gotten absolutely nowhere. Not that anyone was brave enough to point that out to him.
    After morning tea, Lana had walked back to Silver’s office with Isis. It was only now, as lunchtime approached, that Isis joined them in the library. She stood in the doorway for a few minutes, watching Jason trace his fingers across the tapestry’s canvas surface. Small black picture symbols followed his movements, dancing about in loopy whirls, as though a tornado had blown them about. Every few minutes, Jason zoomed in or out of the canvas, and the symbols grew or shrank as others vanished or appeared. The tapestry looked like a very large Delineation Scroll, the famed magical map of the Elitions.
    Isis stepped up behind him and set a hand on his shoulder. “Jason.”
    “This doesn’t make sense,” he said under his breath.
    “What doesn’t make sense?” Isis asked him.
    He turned around and met her eyes, as though he’d just noticed she was standing there. “I’m trying to decipher the location of the temple that holds the Book of Prophecy. This tapestry knows where it is. If only I can figure out how to make it tell me.”
    Isis moved in for a closer look at the tapestry. “Those are where you found the Books of Memory and Vision?” she guessed, pointing to symbols of a book and an eye.
    “How do you figure that? The map is not even geographical,” Everett grumbled.
    He looked hungry. Or maybe Cameron was projecting. He was absolutely starving , and instead of going to lunch, they were still cooped up in that dusty old library.
    “Well, the book is history. Like the past, you know? So that’s where you found the Book of Memory. You see with an eye, so this eye is where you found the Book of Vision.” She hovered a finger over the symbol of a sphere. “This sphere looks like a crystal ball, which is associated, however erroneously, with prophecy. Hence, it’s where the Book of Prophecy can be found. Wasn’t that all obvious?” she finished, looking from Jason to Cameron to Everett.
    Cameron was impressed. Jason appeared to share the feeling, but it was hard to tell with him. His face tended not to be particularly expressive. And Everett… Well, Everett couldn’t seem to get past the moving symbols on the tapestry.
    “I take it that if you’ve already found two of the books, this tapestry can be used to find the third?” she asked Jason.
    “So the priests claim. As I have yet to make sense of it, I remain skeptical,” he replied.
    “You could have asked them to figure it out. Then we wouldn’t be missing lunch.”
    Jason gave Cameron a stony stare. “They weren’t even able to get the symbols to move. Even their best Cipher proved ineffectual.”
    “I think we’re going about this in the wrong way,” said Isis, moving within a hand’s reach of the tapestry. “The three books are named for the Elition gifts of Memory, Vision, and Prophecy. Perhaps only together can a Prior, a Phantom, and a Prophet solve the puzzle.” She turned to Jason. “Where did you find the Book of Vision?”
    “The Temple of the Veil.”
    “Ok, the Temple of the Veil.” She pointed at