ALTOR The Shadow Rebellion (The Chronicles of Ageron)

ALTOR: The Shadow Rebellion (The Chronicles of Ageron)
‘Don’t you have too much fun while we’re gone,’ my
grandmother says with her trademark smile.
‘I’ll try,’ I add jokingly.
Before I have a chance to do or say anything more, a gentle
breeze fills the room, and my grandfather offers a wink before his
entire body is replaced with nothing more than a bright, blue light;
one that complements the colour of his eyes, and illuminates every
corner of the dining room we stand. The shape of the light still
matches that of his body, but it is beginning to reduce in size, as
though sucking itself in at his chest.
With each progressing moment the light is drawing itself
inward, now becoming no more than a diminishing glow of light
hovering unaided in the air, continuing to decrease in size as it
progresses inward. In less time than I have to realise what is
happening, the entire glow that has replaced my grandfather has
become nothing more than a ball of blue light, still hovering of its
own accord in the air. With a soft slurping sound, the light is
sucked out of the air, removed from it as though being sucked in
by a vacuum cleaner, leaving nothing behind but the empty space
my grandfather had stood only seconds before.
Although I’ve witnessed an envelishment many times before,
and perform it almost daily myself, it is still a concept that I find
absolutely remarkable. Not all of my kind has the ability to
envelish, but those of us who do are able to roam freely between
both Ageron and Earth. Those who lack the ability to envelish are
unable to leave Ageron, and are forced to remain within it for life.
Our envelished form, or how our envelishment looks from
the outside, depends on what Ageronian species we are. All
Sorcerers take form of light, one that complements the colour of
our eyes, but other species can simply vanish, or are replaced with
a shadow. This makes it easy for us to identify who it is that is
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