Bound Sorcery: A Shadows of Magic Book by Natalie Grey

Author:Natalie Grey [Grey, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Published: 2017-05-04T06:00:00+00:00

17

Where Eshe was, it turned out, was … somewhere in the Mediterranean. Daiman said this with a sort of shrug, as if this were good enough information.

“It’s a really big coast,” I called, scrambling over boulders behind him.

“Not on the coast,” he called back.

“What? Wait. Like in? Like, floating bubble palace?” Frankly, nothing would surprise me at this point.

“No. An island.” He considered. “Although a floating bubble palace would be really cool.”

“Right. And you have … no idea which island? Should we maybe get a map or something?”

“It’s not on any maps,” he explained. He tipped his head back into the sunlight and took a deep breath of the fresh air.

The wind being what it was, this offered a lovely view of his abs, but after a moment’s distraction, I remembered that I still had questions. I tore my gaze away and tried to reset my brain.

“How do you hide an island? The Mediterranean is full of boats.”

“Same way you hide anything.” Daiman looked at me. “One part encouraging people to go other places, one part hiding them someplace like this.” He gestured at the ambiguously-real forest around us.

“Wait, so she put an island from the real Mediterranean—don’t give me that talk on what ‘real’ means again, you know what I’m talking about—and put it in another dimension?”

Daiman considered this. “Yeah,” he said finally. “Close enough.” He considered for another moment. “I’ve wondered for a while if she knows some druid magic.”

“Druids go that far back?”

“She could have learned it at any point,” he pointed out. “And yes. Druid is … an inexact term. Just think of it as anyone who has powers that aren’t innate. Almost every society has had magical traditions—real and fake. There were a few druids in Rome who were absolutely convinced their power came from the Gods.” He shrugged.

“How do you know it didn’t?” I gave a serene smile when he looked over at me, annoyed. “There are more things in heaven and on earth, Horatio….”

“Yeah, yeah.” He caught up with me. “Anyway, however she got it done, she did it. So the trick is finding it … and then not having her kill us immediately after we arrive.”

“This is sounding like a better idea all the time, let me tell you.”

He ignored that. Another breeze ruffled the tops of the trees as we emerged into a small clearing. I could see the tramped-down circles where deer had slept the night before, and a flock of birds was startled into flight with a flutter of wings. I watched them swirl into the sky.

It was difficult to stay mad after seeing something like that.

“I get that she’s kind of our only choice,” I said finally, “but why would you think she would be willing to talk to me? You said she hated what I did.”

“She hated what Terric did, too,” Daiman pointed out. “And this time you’re not coming to her, asking for her to be an ally in some political campaign. You’re coming to her, asking for help for yourself.

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