Shay's mother has disappeared. 

Her father has become withdrawn following her mother's disappearance and there is little Shay can do to help. 

Then, one night, Shay saves her father from a strange assailant in his study and is carried to another world with her father where the truth about her mother is revealed. 

Discovering that her mother is apparently not the person Shay has admired all her life, leads Shay to question her own values which she has so proudly built on the image of the perfect marriage which her parents displayed to her as a child. As Shay comes to terms with her parent’s betrayal, she herself betrays the one person who has trusted her most in this strange kingdom. 

While she loathes her new behavior she seems unable to stop, since betraying one person means protecting another. While Shay struggles with her own question of values, Shay's life and the world itself begin to collapse around her. 

But life continues and the evil that rises seeks the greatest treasure of all. A power to rule all worlds. For evil does not mourn. And evil has no conscience. And Shay holds a key to access another world which the evil desperately desires.....

WordRealm

Shay had used the statue to swing herself around far enough to swing her sword into the space between the statues. She planned to use her sword like a bat to hit the drop so it would not meet the jewel below. 


Her momentum was too much and she lost her balance and in so doing her aim. Her sword connected with the drop but it sliced the drop instead of batting it. The bottom of the drop continued its fall and landed where it was intended but the jewel was incomplete. The jewel glowed brightly and then the glow faded away. The jewel remained blunted. It was a little taller but did not have the point which would have completed it. 


Chapter 48