Cradle Magic: A YA Dragon Rider Fantasy Adventure With A Unique Magic Spin (Destia's Dragon Shifter War (Dragon Defenders of Destia Part II) Book 3) by Ava Richardson

Author:Ava Richardson [Richardson, Ava]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-05-29T00:00:00+00:00

As good as it felt to be back in the library, Winnie was frustrated. It seemed like the deeper she dug into her research, the less useful information she found. It was her first morning back and the first thing she’d done was ask after her request for the librarians to hold any books that had anything to do with “the cradle in the old country.” Except the research librarian told her they’d found nothing. Then she’d spent the past two hours researching the topic of magical objects in search of something disruptive, wide range and fatal, only to come up with nothing once again.

When she heard the footsteps coming down the aisle, she was more than ready for a distraction, and even more pleased to look up from her book and see Henry approach. “Hello, Winnie. What are you looking into today?”

If he was putting in an effort to seek her out and take an interest in her work, he clearly wasn’t upset with her—and he looked happy enough now he was clean and rested and safe from being chased by violent monsters. She’d been right: he’d just needed a little time and space.

“I’m trying to figure out what Aramys might have been researching in that war room.” She flipped her book closed with a soft thud. “But so far I’ve come up with nothing.”

“I see.” Henry looked over her stack of books and the note of parchment she had on the table as he pulled out a chair and sat down across from her. “Is there anything I could do to help?”

“You want to help with my research?”

“Sure, why not? It’s not as if I’m good for anything else right now.” He let out a strained chuckle, rubbing the back of his neck, as a slight blush colored his cheeks. “If I don’t get assigned a task to occupy my mind with soon, I might very well go mad.”

Maybe Winnie shouldn’t count him as completely fine quite yet.

“Um, well, I appreciate the offer,” Winnie said. “At the moment, I’m searching for any known magical object—current, historical, fictional, it doesn’t matter—that has effects which could be described as ‘disruptive to magic,’ ‘widespread,’ and ‘fatal.’ If it has two out of three, or if it’s widespread and fatal but the thing it disrupts couldn’t possibly be a misunderstood observance of life-force magic, it goes on this list.” She indicated a parchment scroll to her right, containing a long list of objects she’d already indexed. “And if it has all three, it goes on this one.” She pointed to the parchment scroll to her left.

Henry blinked at it. “That one’s blank.”

“Now you know my problem.” Winnie sighed. “Almost everything I’ve found that qualifies as both ‘widespread’ and ‘fatal’ doesn’t have anything to do with disruptive magic of any kind, while anything I find that sounds like it might have been referencing something that could’ve been life-force magic, isn’t usually fatal or widespread.”

“He could be making up something new,” Henry noted as he reached for one of the books and thumbed through it.

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