Gods of Magic (Dragon's Gift: The Amazon Book 1) by Linsey Hall

Author:Linsey Hall [Hall, Linsey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bonnie Doon Press
Published: 2018-10-23T16:00:00+00:00

9

The scream finally broke free, echoing in the dark as I plummeted toward certain death.

Maximus fell beside me, stoically quiet. His magic flared on the air, bringing with it the welcome scent of cedar and the sound of a waterfall that managed to buffer some of my screams.

Please be saving us!

Because even if I had my magic, there was nothing I could do to save us from going splat.

Then I landed.

And bounced.

Whatever I’d fallen on had been full of air, bouncing me back up through the tunnel. I fell again, and bounced again, repeating the routine several times until I lay still, staring up at the light above, my head spinning and my breath heaving.

We’d fallen down a narrow circular shaft that was at least a hundred feet deep. It’d felt longer, actually. I wasn’t entirely sure that the individuals here didn’t screw with time, somehow. Between the swiftness of the guards and the long drop, time seemed to flow abnormally in El Dorado.

My breath heaved and my adrenaline faded, making my limbs shake. I was lying on some kind of huge air mattress that filled the whole bottom of the shaft. Maximus lay next to me.

“Well done,” I said. “A bit cartoonish, but it worked.”

“I saw it on television once.” He sounded a bit dazed.

“Watch a lot of TV, do you?”

“No. But when I first arrived from the past, it did help.”

“I can imagine.” Trembling, I sat. The walls that surrounded us were made of pure gold, so smooth that there was no way we could climb out.

Beneath me, the air mattress began to deflate. As we slowly sank down to the ground, I looked at Maximus. “Thanks for making a sacrifice so I didn’t have to.”

“Didn’t work.”

“But you tried.” I hardly knew the guy. Why had he done that? To lure me into trusting him? “Was that really the last thing you owned from your past?”

He nodded. “I had it on me when I was turned into a demigod and brought forward through time. But it was time to let go of the past, anyway.”

Let go of the past.

What a fantastic idea. I’d tried it, of course. I’d made an effort to put my captivity behind me and forget all the bad. The problem was that the mind wasn’t so easy. When I was asleep, or weak, or sick, or just feeling out of sorts, the terrible memories would rise again.

The cushion deflated entirely, and my butt hit the hard surface of the ground.

Maximus made the air mattress disappear entirely and stood. “I have a transport charm but it’d be a waste. This pit will be protected against transporting, no doubt.”

I agreed. “How about a giant ladder.”

“Exactly what I was thinking.” He squinted upward. “Though there are now bars at the top of our cage.”

“I might have something that can melt through that.”

“You gave away your potions.”

I tapped my belt. “Not all of them.”

“Let’s move quickly, then. It sounds like the demons are creating some kind of super killer, and we need to figure out how to stop it from feeding.

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