Flatline by S.A. Magnusson

Author:S.A. Magnusson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2018-05-01T06:00:00+00:00

12

With how much power slammed into me, I should have felt it. I think it was the fear filling me that prevented me from paying attention to the sheer power of the spell that had been used. Either way, the moment the explosion struck, cloak guy’s focus failed and the spell holding me collapsed.

I rolled off to the side, getting away from the two mages. I didn’t know who was responsible for the attack, but far be it for me to get in the middle of a dispute like that. Besides, I wasn’t sure that I wanted to get caught in the middle of what was about to take place.

“It’s him,” the other mage said.

Him? As in Aron?

I clutched my stethoscope and started to summon my magic. It filled me, and I let it ease down into the stethoscope. I didn’t know what kind of opportunity I might have here, but I wasn’t going to be unprepared. Cloak guy had managed to incapacitate me as if I had no magic at all. I didn’t think there was anything that I could put together that would help, but maybe I could avoid the possibility of him doing the same thing again.

“Don’t let her get—”

A powerful spell slammed into the other mage, and he went flying across the parking garage and slammed into a new Lexus. It was a nice car—or had been before the mage-sized dent in the fender.

Cloak guy drew on the kind of power that sent chills down my spine. As he readied to throw the spell, he stalked forward and it exploded from him.

Whoever he was, he had power. I could almost believe him to be one of the council with the kind of magic he tossed around. That kind should weaken him, but each spell seemed as strong as the one that came before it.

“You shouldn’t have returned for her, Archer. Did you really think that she was worth the risk?”

Archer meant that it was Aron. The taunting meant that though Aron might have knocked him back for a moment, that moment was over. The same spell that had confined me now likely held Aron.

Would he take the same approach with Aron and plan to carry him away?

“You’ve outlived your usefulness, I think.”

That answered that question.

Would the council attack Aron like this, even if they believed he’d gone rogue?

I filled the stethoscope with power. I shouldn’t even be considering going against a mage with his power, but Aron needed my help. Again.

Then again, had he not been here, they would have carried me away.

I owed him this time.

Lunging forward, I swung the stethoscope, ready to release the power from it. Cloak guy turned to me, his hand raised, and I froze in midair.

God, but he had power.

A councilor, he had to be, but why would one of the mage council attack one of their archers? That didn’t make any sense.

“You should not have gotten free.”

“Sorry about that,” I managed to get out.

With his attention split, part of

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