The Amber Garden
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Alchemists' Council volume 0003
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Alchemists' Council volume 0003
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ECW Press
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2020
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The stunning and beautifully crafted conclusion to The Alchemists' Council series In Book Three of The Alchemists' Council trilogy, eternal conflicts between the Council and Rebel Branch escalate. Secrets about time-travel manipulation are revealed, uncomfortable truths about alchemical children are discovered, and Council dimension itself begins to disintegrate. Amidst this fallout, the Amber Garden dissolves, conjoined pairs suffer torturous separation, alchemists die in the process, and Cedar is banished to the outside world where she endures a living death within her conjoined partner. Efforts of both alchemists and rebels to resolve the dissolution of Council and Flaw dimensions prove futile. People of the outside world experience ever-increasing political turmoil and the risk of environmental collapse. Mercifully, the alchemists have woven a thread of hope into an alchemically inscribed book, which they release into the outside world with the purpose of attracting new Initiates to Council. At first, Initiate Virginia appears to be a disrespectful interloper with whom Jaden loathes to work. However, their combined scribal efforts prove astoundingly powerful - so much so that they are sent through time to inscribe critical messages into ancient manuscripts. Events associated with one such manuscript lead Cedar to propose a solution to the dimensional fallout: all remaining alchemists must permanently vacate Council dimension. The final installment in the Alchemists' Council trilogy sees eternal conflicts between the Council and Rebel Branches escalate. Secrets about time-travel manipulation are revealed, uncomfortable truths about alchemical children are discovered, and a controversial solution to save the dimension is put forward. Cynthea Masson is a professor in the English Department at Vancouver Island University, where she teaches writing and literature courses. Her fiction includes The Elijah Tree, a novel combining theories of mysticism with issues of faith. Her recent trilogy, The Alchemists' Council, is anchored within esoteric mysteries of medieval alchemy. CHAPTER ONE London, Waterloo Bridge Station - August 1848 Ravenea stood on the platform surveying the unfamiliar surroundings and glancing anxiously at the outside world folk hurriedly walking by. Was her clothing appropriate? Would she pass among the people of the outside world unnoticed? She could not decide whether she was being overly anxious or respectably cautious. Perhaps if she were here on official Council business, or perhaps if this unconventional location were a crossing point at which she intended to greet a potential Initiate, her usual calm professionalism would prevail. Instead, much too late to change her mind, she repeatedly second-guessed her choice. What could possibly be worth this risk? "Good afternoon," said Fraxinus. Ravenea flinched slightly. Despite his flowing white hair and voluminous robes - highly unorthodox amidst the station's occupants - she had not seen him approach. "Our time here is limited. I will be boarding a train within minutes." "Am I to join you?" "Of course not!" His ice-blue eyes snapped at her, punctuating his words. "What excuse could you possibly offer the Alchemists' Council if Azoth Magen Quercus learned you had embarked on an outside world train journey with a Rebel Branch Azoth?" "What excuse am I to offer even for leaving the London protectorate for this station?" she asked. She glanced around once again at the passersby, worriedly skimming for a familiar face. "Simple curiosity. Is this station not an architectural marvel of the modern world?" He gestured up and outward. For the benefit of onlookers, she smiled and nodded. "And for what reason other than mutual observation of this outside world spectacle have you requested a meeting?"
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