Broken Wand Academy: Season 2 - Episode 1: Misplaced Reality (Veiled World) by Marisa Claire & David R. Bernstein & Jenetta Penner

Author:Marisa Claire & David R. Bernstein & Jenetta Penner [Claire, Marisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Torment Publishing
Published: 2022-01-20T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

A briny blast of wind slammed into us before our feet could settle in their new location, throwing Remi up against me with such force that I landed hard on my ass. Unfortunately, my cousin and all of her densely packed muscles came too, squashing me flat on my back in the long yellow grass.

“One word about my solidity…” Remi growled, pushing up from my chest.

“Can’t,” I croaked. “Lungs collapsed.”

Groaning, she rolled off to my left, revealing a marbled gray sky that perfectly matched my mood and looked nothing like Daniel’s azure eyes. Propping up on my elbows, I experienced an immediate stomach-flipping rush of vertigo at the sight of the watery horizon framed between my shoes. Remi yelped as she made the same discovery and quickly crab-scuttled away from the rocky ledge.

“What the—holy shift, Meena, is this…?”

I scooted back to where she was frozen on her inverted all fours. Small rocks, carved off the cliff and blown backward over time, gouged into my palms and thighs. I remembered it being much softer and greener during my last visit, but that had been the first week of September. The day my adventure with Dan began. There was no escaping him.

“The cliff my mom jumped off?” I swallowed bile. “Yep.”

Remi melted onto her ass and elbows, legs splayed out in front of her. The wind ruffled the wrinkles in her pajamas and slicked the unruly hair off her forehead as she gazed at the foamy, undulating waves. Hundreds of feet below us were the rocks I refused to look at because the choppy roar filling my ears told me all I needed to know about what happened to bodies who landed among them.

Remi gave me an admiring glance. “You’re hardcore, Song.”

“Yeah, well. Guess it was on my mind.”

She sat up straight and looked over her shoulder at the forest our little perch jutted from, a haunting mix of towering evergreens and skeletal deciduous trees at this time of year. Remi had seen it all before too, of course, only from Phorm’s perspective. In the dark.

“Why did you bring me?” Remi asked, and I knew she was really asking why I hadn’t brought Rahm, my emotional support cousin.

“I don’t know,” I lied, not wanting to admit I’d been afraid of what she might do. “I just needed to get away from there and sulk. You don’t have to stay.”

“Are you kidding?” Remi laughed and gestured at the water. “Meena, I’ve only ever sat by the Atlantic Ocean and sulked about my dead mom. This is the Pacific. Totally different experience. I’m all in.” Her weirdo glee faded into a perfect deadpan. “Also, there’s no way in hell I’m leaving you alone on a cliff.”

“It’s really fine.” I wrapped my arms around myself, wishing I knew how to conjure a coat. “I’m going to spite him by staying alive and having a dozen kids with a dozen different mages to make sure they all get magic.”

“In that case, I am never spending future Thanksgivings at your house, but…” Remi bumped her shoulder into mine.

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