Angel Magic by Lucia Ashta

Author:Lucia Ashta [Ashta, Lucia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-13T05:00:00+00:00

11

We made our way toward the water in companionable silence until the tear at the point where my wing met my left shoulder blade ached so terribly that I began considering whether I should try to shift too. Perhaps there was nothing beyond the wings on land and the tail in the water, but it might be worth trying.

Quinn walked with a slight limp, but it didn’t seem to slow him down. He squeezed my hand before he finally broke the silence. “I’ve been thinking, I should probably take you back to the Menagerie.”

“Me? And you?”

“Well, I’d like it if I could stay there with you, especially since now I have no doubt I’m a shifter.”

The thought of stuffing Quinn, who was half a head taller than me and far bigger and muscular, into the fairies’ tree stump home made me smile. Fianna would throw a fit at having another “giant” invade their home.

“We can’t go back to Uncle Irving’s,” Quinn said, “though it would be my preference. Dimorelli, and whoever else might be looking for us, will check there.”

“They definitely will.”

“And there’s nowhere else I can think of where we’d be safe.”

A pang of longing wrenched through me as I wished we could retreat to my ocean home. But no, Mulunu had made it clear it was my home no longer. No matter what my heart desired, neither I nor Quinn would be welcome there.

“We can’t fight this battle on our own,” he went on to say. “We’re not strong enough yet.” Regret tinged his words.

“I’m sure you’ll soon become strong enough to fight our enemies.”

“And you? Do you not believe the same of yourself?”

Sir Lancelot’s words came back to me. I should always believe the best of myself. “I try to,” I finally said, and it was true. “Though you should have seen my training while I was at the Menagerie. Let me put it this way: I’m pretty sure no one ever came out of training the way I did. Egan, my teacher, pretended I was improving, but when he didn’t think I was looking I’d catch his shock at my lack of progress. It was bad, really bad.”

“I don’t believe you could be bad at anything.”

I chortled. “Then just wait and see. Hey, do you smell that?”

He tilted his face into the air and sniffed. His eyes widened as he turned to me. “It’s the ocean!”

I nodded happily. “It is indeed. I wondered if you might be able to pick up on that. Your new form … do you know what it is?”

“No. I saw scales and paws … and it felt supremely weird. But no … I don’t suppose I know what I was. Please tell me.”

“I’ve never been an expert in much of anything, but if you want my best guess, I’d say you’re some kind of sea dragon … bear … creature.”

Quinn came to an abrupt halt. “What?”

“I’m not really sure, Quinn, I’ve never heard of or seen anything like it before. But I’m so underqualified to judge anything, it’s a bit ridiculous.

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