Feverfew and False Friends by Ruby Loren

Author:Ruby Loren [Loren, Ruby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

11

The Not-So-Great Escape

It was enough to turn my aunt’s attention away from her nemesis for the briefest of moments. “How could you possibly…?”

“I just know,” I said, feeling my insides crawling. But it was true. I did just know. The same way I knew that nothing I could pull out from nowhere and nothing my aunt could magic up would be able to combat what this insane person was able to dish out. She’d been playing with us all along. She knew there was nothing we could do to stop her. Whatever the deal was… it had given her everything she wanted.

I stood next to my aunt and felt her magic fade away.

This was it.

This was the end.

The end of everything? a little voice in my head whispered, like a reminder. I opened my eyes and found I knew what to do. Or rather - what not to do.

I’m dead anyway, I thought, somewhat selfishly, before I tried to remember the power I’d hidden from myself ever since my Witch Trial. Kimberly muttered some words and unleashed so many bright blades of white magic no weapon or shield could have stopped them from finding their mark. I opened my eyes and there it was, or rather - there everything was. It felt like time slowed down. I was able to examine the very fabric our world was formed of… and tear a hole in it.

“Hazel!” Aunt Minerva gasped.

I opened my eyes and discovered that I’d succeeded. Kimberly’s magic was gone, presumably into the hole hovering in front of us. A hole that seemed to lead… somewhere. I blinked and tried to work out how I could both see Kimberly through it, and yet… her magic had disappeared into it. Dimensions were hard to get your head around. It was probably the kind of thing you should study for a lifetime before messing with, but here I was… poking a stick into a hornet’s nest.

“Illusion magic,” I heard Kimberly mutter, apparently forgetting that her magic had somehow disappeared with no explanation.

She strode forwards, reaching out towards the hole in time and space.

I suddenly recognised the world I’d opened a doorway to. It was the same one I’d faced with January. This time, we were on a level with the ground, but I recognised the grey stones and the veneer of despair that seemed to coat everything that the dim light touched. Worse still, I recognised the roars of the monsters that crawled and stalked within.

“Hazel, what is this?” my aunt asked, her voice stiff and scared. She knew it wasn’t an illusion.

“It’s what I told you happened in the woods during my witch trial. It’s my power.” It was only then that I realised she hadn’t really believed it. Not until now.

“Curious,” Kimberly said. She reached out from the other side of the tear, pushing her hand towards us, clearly expecting to be able to push straight through. As soon as her hand touched the void, she lurched forwards, as if something had grabbed her and pulled.

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