Dragon Family (Alveria Dragon Akademy's Untameables Book 3) by Ava Richardson

Author:Ava Richardson [Richardson, Ava]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

The darkness seemed to coalesce around Laini. Every step squelched beneath her boots, and the dirty water was nearly deep enough now that it seeped over the top of her boots’ laces. The smell of the sewers clogged in her nose: used bathwater, rotted kitchen leftovers, and heavy, dank mildew.

She wished she could use her light magic, but with Hel somewhere in the school above, she didn’t dare. The goddess might be able to sense it in the same way Laini could now sense the Nightfall spell. So, instead, Laini stepped carefully through the dark, squinting her eyes to pick up any scrap of light, feeling grateful that her Powers of Light and Darkness meant she wasn’t completely blinded down here.

The path rose steadily upward. The ground beneath her shoes got more and more slick and unstable, and she slipped several times. By the time she reached the second grate, her hands were filthy and wet to the elbows.

She traced the outline of the second grate, peering at the faint metallic shine. It was made of enchanted silver and hummed unpleasantly beneath her fingertips. Small blue sparks of electricity leapt down her arm, crackling and hissing. She pulled her hand away. This bit of magic wouldn’t be as easily bypassed as the first. She tugged a bit of wire out of her pocket. The short, flexible gray strand didn’t look like much, but she could feel the tingle of potent magic packed inside it. She threaded it carefully through the grids in the sewer grate. The grate hissed and spat sparks, but then went sullenly silent. She tugged it out of its place—she had to yank hard this time, and when it finally came off, it was so heavy that she skidded backwards on her rear for a few feet.

Bjarke had warned her that the flexible bit of enchanted metal would only keep the alarm from going off for about thirty seconds; she had to get the grate back in place quickly or the enchantment would register it as being out of place. She hurriedly stood back up without bothering to try to wipe off the mud, then crossed to the other side and pulled the grate back into its spot. She left it a bit looser this time—mindful that, if everything went well during the night’s mission, she would be coming back through the same slow, secret way she was using now for her entrance.

When the grate was safely back in place, she untwisted the bit of metal that had fooled its magic and stepped away. The grate hummed back into life. She looked gratefully down at the bit of potent magic in her hand. “Useful thing, aren’t you?” she whispered. She turned it over, sparing just a moment to study it, trying to figure out how it worked. This type of magic was incredibly rare and, used for this purpose, certainly illegal. It felt a bit similar to Tyr’s magic, the way it was able to dampen—

Pain rose up in her and she cut off that line of thought.

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