Duality by Layla Heart

Author:Layla Heart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 5 Times Chaos

I’m in our room with Ember at my side, reading a book on rituals and the proper rituals for protection and guarding places or people. I only had one class today, an advanced rituals class, and I now have to memorise the first chapter of the book before next week. It’s all about guarding and protection, which aren’t really the most complicated rituals, generally, but there are still about twenty of them, which will take a while to memorise. Litha is in her class on astronomy, which she has together with Rune and Kit, so she won’t be back for a few more hours.

But even as I’m trying to go through all the rituals, I keep thinking back to my plan from earlier today, trying to figure out if the ritual I’m reading could be used for it. If we need to bring out her protective nature to have her train her magic, then using a protection ritual might keep us all safe while we sort-of put each other in dangerous situations, but that doesn’t guarantee it will trigger her magic and it would be really exhausting to keep doing rituals to help her.

Once you see how her magic works, it’s very obvious. The way she protects everyone and how her magic spikes when she thinks there is trouble going on, but none of that is of any help when we can’t teach her to control it.

‘What use is a queen with only defensive magic?’ Ember pushes her head against my arm.

Yes, that too. We need to find out if she’s got offensive magic too, preferably something strong that will be easy to handle, like summoning fire or something like that. Easy and effective. But if she doesn’t know how to even sense her own magic, then how can we teach her to use it?

‘Pushing her to her limits can be very dangerous. But it may be worth the risk.’

I glare at Ember. ‘You just like to watch things burn, literally.’

She stands up with a huff and turns around, walking to the end of the bed and curling up there instead. ‘You just don’t like taking risks.’

I stop moving. No, I don’t, not too many anyway. I don’t see why taking risks is so important, especially when there are better ways to do things, safer ways. But if I have to... I will take risks. I rub the inside of my arm, a small pink scar right inside my elbow, it’s not like I’ve not been taking any risks lately.

Having Litha here is great, and she’s very sweet, but I don’t know if she even realises what’s going on out there. The dangers witches are in, the dangers the other races are in. She has no idea of our history and what she’s seen here is mostly just happy stuff, people peacefully living together, but that’s not what it’s like outside the walls. That’s not what it’s like once we leave this place. If she thinks our whole world is like this, she’s going to be in for a shock.

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