Dark Moon Falls: Abel by Bella Roccaforte

Author:Bella Roccaforte [Roccaforte, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hot Box Publishing, LLC
Published: 2020-05-16T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Ayry sat on the parlor floor with books strewn about. She was reading one and making notes and cross referencing notes her father had made.

Anabelle stood in the doorway shaking her head. “How long have you known?”

Ayry didn’t look up from her notebook. “Probably as long as you did.”

“What do you mean? I just found out.”

Ayry looked up with a sarcastic look. “Anabelle, you’re not stupid. How could you not have known?”

Anabelle steps into the room and plops down in the oversized chair with her shoulders hanging forward. “I just thought you were Dad’s favorite.”

“And you never had a clue that Dad was basically binding my magic the whole time?” She raised a brow at her sister.

“It’s the kind of thing I didn’t want to believe, I guess.”

“No one wanted to believe it, that’s why it was so easy to hide.” She picked up one of the books.

“Dad knew there was another necromancer.” She opened the book to a page that had been dog-eared. “And knew he was coming for him.”

“What makes you say that?” Anabelle craned her neck to see the book.

Ayry shook her head. “You can’t read it. Only a magus can.”

“Convenient.”

“No, smart.” She pressed her finger on the page. “He was working on modifying a spell.”

“Dad hadn’t done magic in years.” She cut a half smile into her cheek. “Not since you’d left.”

“He was doing magic and he was preparing for something that was coming. He was worried about the necromancer finding out about the anomaly in the bloodline.”

“For good reason.”

“What does that make me?” Ayry questioned.

“The first female magus?”

“No. I’m not the first. It’s rare, but it happens.” She rolled her eyes. “Obviously. It’s like a recessive gene.”

Ayry unfolded herself from the floor and slid the family bible off the shelf. She opened up to the Family tree page and brought it to Anabelle. “Apparently, I’m not the first. I’m betting Dad wasn’t aware of this, but Mom’s side of the family had magus blood. The gene had lay dormant for four generations.”

“Okay, did Mom know?” Anabelle asked.

“Someone did.”

“How do you know?”

“Dad made a reference to the family bible in his journal. He wanted me to find this.” Ayry inhaled a deep breath.

“Why did he want you to know? I mean, what does it matter now? All we need to do is keep you safe from the necromancer. If he wasn’t ready for him, how are you going to be ready?”

“Because a magus is the most vulnerable to become a necromancer.”

“I don’t understand.” Anabelle looked over Ayry’s shoulder at the Holy Bible.

“Necromancer and magus are a balance of magic. It’s said that you can’t have one without the other. But if there is a lack of balance and a power-hungry magus, they can turn to the darkness and obtain power through ritual killings.” Ayry explained.

“Wait, a necromancer is a magus gone bad?”

“In some cases, yes. Once they perform a ritual killing to obtain the power, their blood becomes tainted.” She watched her sister for understanding. “Like Saul was a half witch half magus.

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