The Chronicles Of Kronos (Chapter 11)
Years flew by as the two of them worked.
Searching every book & scroll, a quirk.
One day Asglow looked in a mirror.
He was shocked at how he appeared.
“I have aged, but you have not.”
He was glued to the spot.
“I solved that over 900 years ago.”
“A spell keeps me young. It is so.”
“Could you work that spell on me?”
“Certainly, it slipped my mind, you see.”
Kronos did what he needed to do.
Asglow looked & felt younger too.
He said “Thanks, I needed that.”
“I believe you did. It’s a fact.”
A month, or so later Asglow said.
“I just remembered. It came to my head.”
“Way back, when I built the castle.”
“I hid books away to avoid a hassle.”
“It was a huge amount of books from Vantera.”
“Now, I know that might sound a little queer, ah”
“They didn’t know I took them back then.”
“Both black & white magic” he grinned.
“White magic?—- I hate that crap!!”
“I know, but don’t lose your hat.”
“I was trained in both, as you know.”
“I found with a balance, you increase the show.”
“What exactly are you saying here?”
“This may be the answer. Have no fear.”
“This may be why the demons need us.”
“A demon can’t touch white magic, I trust.”
“Yet, the balance is needed for phase !! to work.”
“Now, that really is quite a quirk.”
“I don’t trust white magic. Never have.”
“It could be like a healing salve.”
“What the hell are you saying?”
“Let me show you. I’m just saying.”
Asglow took Kronos deep below.
Way into the bedrock. There was a glow.
A spell to prevent rot in the room.
There were hundreds of books in the gloom.
Asglow lit a globe with magic.
The books were separated by their magic.
Asglow said “Watch this.”
Using black magic he melted rock with a hiss.
Then, he combined a ‘white spell’ with it.
The rock evaporated. Nothing left of it.
Kronos was amazed. “What the hell??”
“It was a balanced spell.”
“It became twice as effective that way.”
“It takes special skill though, I must say.”
“How did you come up with such a thing?”
“Quite by accident, it would now seem.”
“Once I saw what it had done.”
“I perfected my method. I was the only one.”
“I am starting to see how this could help.”
“We’ll complete phase II for that demon whelp.”
“And we will do it in record time.”
“It won’t take centuries of our time.”
“We could make a breakthrough in a few years.”
“I wonder if that would bring a demon to tears.”
“Hell no. They are a bunch of ornery cusses.”
“All he does is give orders and fusses.”
So, Kronos and Asglow went to work again.
Kronos thought white magic was almost a sin.
But, if it got them where they wanted to go.
Then, he was all ready to work on the show.
Where it took them, I still haven’t heard.
I will pass it on when I get the word.
——————————————R.W. Johnson—–(2019)