Claim the Light: Supernatural Legacy 4 (Dragon Shifters and Angels) by Everly Frost

Author:Everly Frost [Frost, Everly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ever Realm Books
Published: 2023-09-07T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

A neat garden stretches out in front of me.

It’s filled with sculpted flower bushes no higher than my waist, all set out in patterns. Between them is a myriad of smooth, white pathways. Above me, the sky twinkles with a million stars, the light crisper than any I’ve ever seen.

Only the cabin has remained the same. It’s a brightly lit shape behind me—and now, its lights are spilling through the windows.

Everything else has changed.

Directly in front of me, a girl with pure, white hair bends to a silver flower growing on a blood-red bush. She’s wearing a pearly dress that moves around her as if she’s standing in a gentle breeze. Except that I can’t feel it. For me, the air is completely still.

Glimmering light twinkles around her silhouette and makes her appear as if she were moving very quickly. Like a hummingbird, whose wings beat so fast, they look as if they’re standing still.

I’ve frozen with surprise, on edge and ready to fight if I have to, but then she speaks.

“You are not dead.” Her voice hums like the sound of a fingertip running around the top of a wineglass. “And yet here you are. In my garden.”

“What is this place?” I ask. “Who are you?”

She looks up at me. Her eyes are a startling white with only the barest hint of irises. Possibly green, but I can’t be sure.

“I thought you might have guessed,” she replies, “since you’ve met one of us before.”

Met one of them?

When my forehead creases, she shrugs and turns back to the flower bush, running her hand from one silver rose to the next. “I imagine the encounter with my darker counterpart was very unpleasant and worthy of being forgotten quickly.”

Her darker counterpart?

My thoughts click together.

She must be one of the keepers of magic.

“You’re the keeper of light magic,” I say, taking a guess, my eyes widening at the possibility.

I take another look around. Did I somehow fall into another oblivion?

“Oh, no, child, I am not a creature of light magic.” Giving a little chuckle, she addresses me as if I’m the child, not her. “Although I understand why you might think that to look at me.”

White light flickers around her fingertips as she plucks a flower from the bush. Crimson sap drips from the stem as she steps slowly toward me. “No, dearest. I am the keeper of old magic.”

Right.

I glance back at the cabin, wondering if the old magic within it has somehow created a conduit to this place.

The keeper stops three paces away from me while crimson sap drips from her fingertips. “I think you know why the four keepers of magic exist?”

“To tether the magic that lingers when a supernatural dies,” I say, recalling what I gleaned from the keeper of dark magic.

She nods. “All magic must return to its rightful keeper. Otherwise, it will contaminate the earth, and that’s when the monsters will rise.”

I’m alarmed. “Monsters?”

“Creatures of pure destruction and chaos.” Her silhouette glimmers as she darts closer to me and suddenly, she’s standing a mere pace away.

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