Forbidden Magic (Stolen Magic Book 4) by Jayne Hawke & Gabriel

Author:Jayne Hawke & Gabriel . [Hawke, Jayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kitsune Ink
Published: 2020-05-25T16:00:00+00:00

Somehow the list of things to do seemed to be getting longer. Maybe the megaminds were filling my brain up with more and more, maybe I had just underestimated how much work would go into the ones we’d had to begin with, but either way the pack was going to have to buckle down. Knowing how competitive they could be, Elijah and I decided to separate the work into five roughly equal lists, each with items ranked from quick and easy to tricky and arduous. A bit of magic later and the game was ready. Then we called the pack outside, where the sun was on the edge of setting.

As they came through the door, the lists politely fluttered over and distributed themselves at random, one to each, with the final two coming to Elijah and me respectively. Still blank, they earned us a quizzical look.

“You each have in your hands a list which has chosen you. On each is a list of tasks,” Elijah began. Liam raised a finger, which earned him an indulgent look from Elijah, who continued. “When Lily triggers the spell, the sheets will count down from ten, at which point the tasks will light up and the game will begin.”

I stepped in. “Do your tasks in order, top to bottom. Whoever finishes the most tasks by dawn gets a shadow pet as close to your description as I can make it. Earn its loyalty, and it will be the most faithful companion you can imagine.” Infinity took a moment to dance in the fading sun, ever the showman.

“If Lily wins, she takes an item of her choosing from one of our collections. Knife, artifact, whatever takes her fancy. Do play nice, though naturally we can’t watch everyone at once...” Elijah finished with a smirk, crossing his arms.

I made an entirely unnecessary snap of my fingers and the papers began to pulse with moonlight on the seconds. When they all flashed to full completion, they bound themselves to the person holding them such that the light wouldn’t give away anyone’s position, and the pack sprinted. Liam took an early lead, but before he could make it to his car Jess swept past him in cougar form with a triumphant scream, her car foregone in favour of the manoeuvrability of the great cat.

When they’d had a few moments’ head start, Elijah and I each sprinted after them, shoving and giggling like we hadn’t a care in the world before leaping into our cars and speeding out of the driveway.

The early tasks were intentionally the silly, easy stuff. Firstly, it seemed in the spirit of the thing to start off with some encouraging bite-sized wins, and secondly my instinct was that more small tasks done was better than fewer big ones. Since it was hard to tell when my instincts were really information from the megaminds, I’d come to trust them more and more when dealing with shadow problems. It was a choice that would be concerning in retrospect, but at the time it was expedient and – more troublingly – natural.

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