A Cage of Crystal (Prophecy of the Forgotten Fae Book 2) by Tessonja Odette

Author:Tessonja Odette [Odette, Tessonja]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crystal Moon Press
Published: 2023-01-30T18:30:00+00:00

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Witches didn’t deal in curses. Cora knew this, knew every bit of information she pored through stood in contrast to her ethics. But if there was any hope in breaking Morkai’s fate weaving, it had to be in one of these books. And yet by sunset, with over a dozen books read and burned, she’d found nothing to fuel that hope. Nothing of immediate value, at least.

Only three of the books had mentioned curses at all, and when it came to breaking them, all had said some measure of the same thing: To break a curse, one must cast the same spell in reverse.

That wasn’t helpful. Cora may have had access to Morkai’s blueprints for the fate weaving he’d cast, but she couldn’t make heads or tails of the complex intersecting lines he’d drawn in his book. Would it be enough to draw the pattern in ink, or did she need blood? Would she have to suspend it in the air, make the pattern weave itself, like Morkai did? And if she was supposed to cast the spell in reverse, didn’t that mean she needed to know which part of the pattern was the starting point and which was the end?

She’d found only one other option, a single sentence mentioned in the most recent book she’d read: A curse may be rendered neutral if one casts a counter curse of equal or greater power to the opposite effect of the original curse.

Yet another unhelpful piece of information. Because—as Cora had already surmised—witches didn’t deal in curses. Even if she knew how to cast a counter curse, how could she make one strong enough to neutralize Morkai’s dark magic? And what would the opposite effect be? A fertility spell?

She curled her fingers into fists as she watched the book burn, witnessed every page crumble to ash in the hearth. That single line of relevant, albeit unhelpful, text was all she let remain in her mind. Everything else, every unsettling spell, every instruction on using dark magic, she’d refused to take in. She may have decided to use Morkai’s books as a means for education in a single subject, but she wasn’t a fool. She wouldn’t be seduced by the excerpts scrawled within these tomes, nor would she allow any excuse to save a single book from burning. Aside from those that couldn’t be burned, of course, like the ones with pages laced with poison. But even those were fated to be discarded, not kept.

Even if she never found a way to unravel the weaving Morkai had placed upon her, she’d at least have the satisfaction of watching everything he’d owned be destroyed. That was where her true motive lay. This was less about gaining the ability to bear heirs and more about defeating a sorcerer who held too much power beyond the grave.

The sun began to set just as the last remnants of the book joined the ashes in the hearth. She debated returning to the bookshelf and selecting her next

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