Knight Bound (The Return of the Queen Book 4) by L.A. Grant

Author:L.A. Grant [Grant, L.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

18

Arlena

A blue-haired witch stepped out of the thickening mist, yellow smoke puffing up in her hand, lips curled in a dark grin as the smoke quickly moved toward us.

Gwen stood, flicked her wrists and the smoke dissipated.

“Too slow, Gwenhwyfar,” the witch sneered. Gwen coughed, as though something caught in her throat. A warlock stepped into view, clutching a staff with a red stone glowing at its midpoint. The red glow reflected in his eyes. Before he could cast anything, I freed Excalibur and slammed into the center of the staff, red light exploding from it and slamming the warlock.

A strangled cry behind me and I turned around to see Gwen standing, yellow smoke now consuming the blue-haired witch. She collapsed. Twitched twice. And stopped moving.

Gwen spit out blood, taking me by surprise. The fragments of memory I still had of her were of her being a proper queen.

Not someone who’d kill another witch and spit out blood.

“What’s going on?” I asked, wishing the smoke would dissipate around us so we could see if another attack would come.

“You,” Gwen said, a slight tremor of exhaustion in her voice. “You’re going on, of course, like always.”

“I thought this wasn’t about me?” I raised an eyebrow, clutching Excalibur. Its red stone glowed, warning me of magic. As if I didn’t know. “Why are you helping me, anyway?”

She scoffed. “I like Morgana even less than you!” she spotted the warlock’s broken staff and quickly grabbed it. The red stone was mostly intact, and she pocketed it.

“Morgana is trapped in Avalon.”

Gwen snorted, taking me by surprise again.

“You’re an idiot,” Gwen said, though the bite was gone from her voice. Her eyes narrowed. “Give me Excalibur.”

I took a step back, holding the blade between me and her. “I won’t let you take any more of my magic, Gwenhwyfar.”

“Well, I wasn’t going to give you any more of my time, yet here I am. I guess we all have to do things we don’t want to.”

A bolt of magic slammed out of the smoke and she deflected it with a quick spell. She turned to me, gritting her teeth. “Look, the magic I took from you wasn’t enough to stop her, and now I need to keep your sword safe.”

“Excalibur stays with me,” I said with a confidence I didn’t feel.

“Find, I’ll take you, too,” her eyes glowed an intense blue. Excalibur’s stone glowed red, then flickered.

And nothing.

“I’ve had a long time to study your magic,” Gwen whispered, extending her hand toward me. I took a step back, not sure what to do, unable to feel the magic of the blade.

Come on! Please!

The blade stayed silent in my hands as her blue magic began to lick the blade. My strength ebbed from me, stolen by her magic.

I fought to remain standing, to find the strength to at least stab her and break her spell, but couldn’t move my body.

“We have to go,” she said, exhausted. If I could hold out long enough, she’d collapse before me.

Sheer stubbornness was my best ally.

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