Code Fire (Curse of the Blood Dragon Book 2) by Val St. Crowe

Author:Val St. Crowe [St. Crowe, Val]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Punk Rawk Books
Published: 2018-05-24T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Jesse woke up with a start.

She’d had the dream again.

She hated the dream. She felt like she was having it more often lately. It hadn’t been that long ago that she’d dreamed it. It had been after Wyatt had come on board their last mission.

She thought she’d pushed this dream down, buried it so far in her subconscious that it would never come out again.

But she’d been wrong.

The dream itself wasn’t so bad. It was even innocuous. She put on her headphones to drown out the sound of her family while she set up a spell. That was all that happened. Before anything awful could happen, she always woke up.

Still, now that she was awake, she felt cold and clammy, and it was hard to catch her breath.

She couldn’t help but thing about what happened after, when the spell got away from her. It had been a form of sacrifice magic, but she hadn’t sacrificed anything too horrid. She’d bought a white mouse from the pet store. They even called the mice “feeder mice,” because they were there to be purchased to feed to snakes. They were slated to die anyway, one way or the other.

Of course, she should have known better. All over her grandmother’s grimoire had been warnings written about this spell, saying that it wasn’t something to be trifled with and that only a very powerful mage could control the wild power of sacrifice magic.

That kind of magic was the kind of magic that was used to create objects that could suck magic dry. That kind of magic had created an entire race of beings—the gargoyles, who had been merged dragons and humans, created by ancient mages to protect them. Sacrifice magic wasn’t something to be trifled with.

She’d told herself that she wasn’t trifling, that she was only experimenting.

She had no reason to think that things would go badly, because at that point, every spell she’d ever tried had gone perfectly. She had her grandmother’s gun and her grandmother’s talismans, and Jesse liked to think she had some raw talent too. When Section X would come for her later, they would agree. They would tell her that they’d never seen such power in one so young.

But, by then, she didn’t want the power anymore.

The sacrifice magic had gotten loose. She hadn’t known that could happen, but when she brought it forth, it was like an entity in and of itself. It was a creature composed of smoke, and it was hungry.

Eventually, she managed to get control of it again, which was what Section X found so admirable. Anyone could bungle a sacrifice magic spell, but not anyone could wrestle the magic back under control and make it dissipate. Jesse had done that, and they were impressed.

It was all hollow, then, though.

She didn’t want to think about this. There was a reason she’d tried to tamp this down. She never thought of it voluntarily. It was only when that damned dream surfaced that she was forced to face it.

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