Hexing by Ciara Graves

Author:Ciara Graves [Graves, Ciara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-25T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Brogan

A month later...

I leaned back, embracing the storm as it moved in overhead. I reached up, calling to the force of nature driving the clouds, the lightning that cracked and the resounding thunder that followed. I grew lost in the moment, not wanting it to end.

“And that ends training for today,” Command Millie, the shaman trainer, announced.

My eyes opened as I came out of my meditation and looked around, lost for a few seconds while I reoriented myself with my surroundings. I wasn’t sure how well I’d actually done today, until I glanced at my hands. I smiled. Lightning shot from the ends of my fingertips. It had taken nearly the whole first month here, but with Millie’s help, I managed to get myself attuned to nature again. I even had a focus now and had been striving toward building that focus and connection for the past week.

“You are coming along quite well,” Millie said.

I climbed to my feet. “Thank you, took a while but I’m feeling pretty good now.”

“Good. Victor says he’s quite impressed and that you no longer seem so bogged down by the legacy behind you.”

“True. I’m not. Not at all.” I had been, and it stopped me every time from achieving what I had done already.

Rori had tried to talk me through my concerns, but the fear of failure had been too much. Victor finally just let me have it one day and told me that no matter who came before me in my line, the only power that mattered at the moment was my own. That and how I was able to connect with the world around me. Victor was another shaman, a third-year, and I trusted him.

I shoved aside the expectations of my family and the moment I let myself relax and return to those three years I spent alone, where there’d been no pressure. I’d found myself again, nature waiting for me.

“Until tomorrow then,” Millie said to all of us, then she walked off.

“Brogan!” Rori approached.

“I was just going to come and find you. Ready for lunch?”

“Starving.” She slipped her arm through mine. “Blade is trying to kill us.”

“Nah, just building up your strength.”

“Some days I wish all I had to do was meditate,” she sighed and winked at me.

“It’s more than that, takes an intense amount of focus. And patience. Something we both know you do not have.”

“I try.”

“And fail,” I said with a laugh.

She nodded in agreement. “Whatever. Let’s just go get some food before I fall over. Have to go back at it this afternoon.”

“More training?”

“Blade seems to think something’s holding my frost magic back. Not mentally, but… I don’t know. He seems worried about it.” She tugged on the end of the long braid draped over her shoulder.

In the last month, we’d grown closer, but it was hard to say we were a couple—or anything—when we only ever got to see each other at meals, and every now and then on the weekends if we weren’t busy catching up on sleep or working with other mages and shamans to perfect what we learned during the week.

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