Forging Family by Bob Dattolo

Author:Bob Dattolo [Dattolo, Bob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-21T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

A cool cloth across my forehead was the first thing I felt. Not that I recognized it as that. I had no idea for the longest time. I just felt it moving back and forth, then coming back a little colder after a minute. When it clicked, sound began rushing in, filling me in fits and starts.

Then I heard it. Daughter-mine, goddess of death, come back to me. Come back to us. Please.

It was a struggle, but I got a tiny shaft of golden light to hit Mom. I could barely see her in my head, and normally I can see her like she’s on a 4k TV when she prays to me that way. I feel ravaged. Torn apart and not quite put back together.

“She’s back. At least a little.”

Other movement let me know that someone else was nearby. My nose finally told me that it’s Melissa. It beat my ears by maybe five seconds.

“How can you tell? She looks exactly the same? She’s looked the same since yesterday!”

Another wipe across my forehead, “I can tell. We have a…bond, if you will.”

Opening my eyes sucked. Big time. First of all, it took way too much energy to do it. Second of all…it barely happened. If anything, I feel even worse after trying to move and hardly being able to do it.

“What happened? Where am I?” My voice cracked and was so rough that I had to try to say it three times. Three times when Mom can hear a fart from 100 feet away. I’m not even joking.

So can I, usually, which is why kids in school were so carefree about things. You can’t hide pooping when everyone knows you are doing it. It just doesn’t even become a thing due to that.

Another wipe across my brow, telling me it really is a washcloth of some sort. “You’re at home. You…you were hit by a spell from those boys and you attempted to respond…and you collapsed.”

Dammit… “What? Why?”

Another wipe, “You’re too thin with magic. I’m…I’m frankly surprised you’re alive. If you weren’t what you are, I’m not sure you would have lived. You’ve read the books. When a mage loses all of their magic, it takes a miracle to keep them alive. You still have some magic inside of you, but it’s bare and thin. It had been slowly coming back, but you seem to have used up quite a bit of it, and what you’re left with right now…like I said, you should be dead.”

Dammit all… “What happened with the mages?” That took four attempts to get out and required a tiny sip of water to finish it.

Her smile made me try and smile in return. Not that it happened. “I felt their spell. They weren’t trying to kill you, but it was a solid attack against you. I challenged them and their families in your name. They have until Sunday night to respond or it will be assumed accepted.”

Melissa touched Mom’s arm, “You should have seen it.

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