Fairy’s Touch by Ella Summers

Author:Ella Summers [Summers, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Night Spark Media
Published: 2019-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

17

The Dreamer's Mirror

I hadn’t even caught my breath after the last challenge, and now it was time for the next one? When this was over, I was treating myself to a week-long nap.

“The challenge will be different this time,” Faris told everyone. “It will be a game. I know you are all familiar with the game of Legion.”

Legion was a card game its makers had marketed as a faithful representation of the Legion of Angels. Featured on the playing cards were every kind of supernatural—and every Legion rank from lowly initiate to archangel. The angel cards featured actual angels. Whoever had illustrated Nero’s card had given him a body almost as good as the real thing; and a ridiculously long sword that no one could wield, no matter how much magic they possessed.

“This is a game of wits, not magic. It will show who you really are inside.” Faris’s words were downright foreboding. “Let’s see what you’re made of.”

He gestured toward the only glowing mirror in the hall. The other frames were dormant right now. For the first time, all seven teams passed through the same mirror together.

It transported us to a posh lounge, a room full of rare and expensive collectables. Several cozy fireplaces were cut into the four walls, and a vibrant rainbow fire burned inside each of them. In front of the largest fireplace, a big beastly cat slept, snoring lazily. The cat was a very appropriate pet for the Goddess of Witchcraft.

The other players gave the beast cat a suspicious look and a wide berth, except for me. I moved in closer. Sure, the cat looked like a monster, but it didn’t act like a monster. It was so calm and gentle, even docile. I petted it softly on the head. It blinked its blue eyes and purred like a house cat a fraction of its size.

Beyond the cat, Athan the Everlasting stood beside a great round table with fourteen chairs.

“Place the gods’ items that are in your possession onto the table now,” he said. “The winning team of each round will claim one artifact.”

So much for my cunning play to steal Nero’s item. I shouldn’t have even bothered. We were all relinquishing our artifacts now anyway.

Colonel Fireswift placed Maya’s necklace and Zarion’s hairbrush on the table. Nero set down Aleris’s glasses and Valora’s crown next to them. Finally, General Spellsmiter slipped a slim silver mirror out of his jacket and added it to the other four items. That must have been Meda’s object.

“You will be playing the partner variation of the Legion card game,” said Athan. “Your teammate is your partner. To prevent cheating, all telepathic angels in the room will now drink a potion that blocks your ability to read thoughts.”

Six shot glasses with dark liquid waited on the table. All the angels except Harker took a shot glass. He was the newest angel, the only one here who hadn’t yet gained the power of Ghost’s Whisper.

I’d been feeling like an outsider this whole training.

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