Draft of Dragons by T S Paul

Author:T S Paul [Paul, T S]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Great God Pan Publishing, Inc
Published: 2019-03-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Training with Agnes Pickleberry took three long days. Using nothing but what she called battlemagic, I destroyed more than half the furniture in her storage rooms. While I learned a lot, it left me with more unanswered questions.

Sitting in my grandmother's office, we broke down what I’d learned and how I could potentially use it. “Why didn’t you teach me anything like that before?”

Grams winced and looked away for a moment. “You were too young and too untried at the time, dear. The risk of you killing someone accidentally wasn’t worth it. Please understand when I say that it’s not that we didn’t trust you. We didn’t trust your Magick. You needed to learn balance, and I couldn’t teach you that.”

“Between your aunt and the issues with your mother…Agatha, I’m sorry. I let people who had no business telling me what to do influence me. I trained you how to run the Coven, giving you more than half my knowledge of the how and why we Blackmores do what we do. But I couldn’t give you all of it. Until you came of age, things like the Species Council and our place in the world had to stay secret, but we’ve already discussed this. The Witches Council promised…” Marcella paused. Her usually calm face became angry for just a moment. “I was given guarantees by them to train you in the very things you were missing. Jack Dalton swore to me that you would receive all the assistance the human Mages received and more. That was the primary reason I agreed to it all. There was supposed to be a program in place to help. I set it all in motion so you wouldn’t be loose in the world alone and in need. One more reason to not trust the humans, I guess.”

“Bethany and the Council have always had an agenda beyond what we’ve given them. If I had known they were sabotaging your training…” Marcella made a calming motion with her hands. “I would have done things differently. I assure you.”

“Bethany. Is she the one that everyone says has no face?” I asked. The American Witches Council was an enigma for most of our people. They enforced the rules with an iron fist but did so from the shadows. Only the most experienced and powerful were supposed to be a part of it. Nepotism was alive and well among them, too. Several of my early teachers came from the Council as they were supposed to, but none stayed more than a week.

“She is masked or veiled most of the time,” Grams said. “There was an accident shortly before the first Demon War. Bethany was scarred very badly. The healers who were involved claimed she might never see again. Obviously she healed. It made her bitter, though. We had...an agreement of sorts. It’s ancient history now. If you ever meet her, walk away. She is a danger to you now, dear.”

Frowning, I gave my grandmother a funny look. “What sort of agreement? I thought the Witches Council was a neutral party.

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