Book 3 Dark Frost by Jennifer Estep

Author:Jennifer Estep [Jennifer Estep]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

I stood there, mouth open, and watched her go. Yeah, the Valkyrie could be volatile sometimes, but that was the second time today she’d been nasty to me. Okay, okay, so maybe I had been eavesdropping on Daphne and Metis, but that was just because I was concerned about Daphne. Sue me for caring about my best friend.

Metis stepped out of her office, her green eyes soft and kind.

I sighed. “I take it you heard that?”

The professor nodded. “Daphne’s just upset. She thought her magic would be one thing, and it’s turned out to be another instead.”

“Yeah, but why is she taking it out on me?”

Metis tilted her head to one side. “Because your magic is exactly what it’s supposed to be. You fully embrace your power, Gwen, and you try to do good with it. That’s one of the things that makes you so strong. Don’t worry about Daphne. She’ll be all right. It’ll take her a little time to adjust, but she’ll come to understand that everything happens for a reason. That the gods give us the gifts we need when we need them the most.”

The professor stared off into the distance. “I was the same way when I was her age. I hoped that my magic would be physical instead of mental.”

“What do you mean?”

Metis sighed. “Magic is basically divided into two categories—physical and mental. Physical magic involves things like the fire magic Daphne said her mother has. Usually, physical magic can be used to hurt someone else, while mental magic is often more of a protective magic, like my healing power.”

“So what you’re saying is that physical magic has some kind of actual form or shape, right? Like rain from a storm?”

Metis nodded back. “Right. Rain from a storm would be a physical form of magic, something you can actually see and feel and touch, whereas telekinesis or telepathy would be a mental form, something you can’t necessarily see or touch.”

For some reason, the word telepathy seemed to resonate in my head, like a bell softly chiming, although I had no idea why. As far as I knew, I’d never met anyone with telepathic magic. Lots of kids at Mythos had the physical magic Metis had described, like the ability to shoot lightning out of their fingertips or summon up gusts of wind with just a wave of their hands. I supposed the enhanced senses so many of the students had would be considered a form of mental magic.

“But what about my magic?” I asked. “What about my touch magic?”

That’s what some people called my psychometry—touch magic.

“Your touch magic is different,” Metis said. “It’s one of the rare abilities that can be both physical and mental at the same time.”

“What do you mean?”

Metis tapped her fingers against her lips, like she was struggling over how to explain it to me. “Well, obviously, you know about the mental part. That’s when you touch objects and see things, as you put it. When you get flashes of other people’s memories and emotions in your own mind.

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