Magic Underground Anthology: The Complete Collection by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Magical Mayhem Press
Published: 2020-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

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Time did not seem to pass at all while we walked towards the tower. There were more stations set up since I had been there last, or maybe I just noticed them more, taking them in with a bland eye.

It was when I caught the sight of the oceanfront that the rest of my plan came together in my mind, and I squeezed Aidan’s hand at once.

“What is it?” he asked.

Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed he was looking at me, letting his gaze take in my dress and the twisted flowers in my hair. Another wave of warmth, one that had nothing to do with the weather, washed through me. I almost forgot what I was going to say when he asked me, “Is something bothering you?”

I sighed, then whispered, “I have been thinking. If the shard is what controls us, we should free that boy and take his shard. If we can dismantle it, he should be saved from the pain other people experience.”

“The Community Elders will not like that.”

“No,” I agreed. “They will not be for it at all. That’s why I need you to distract them somehow.”

“Distract them?” Aidan frowned. “How?”

“I don’t know,” I admitted. “But no one in my house saw you punch River when he was being … rude … about us.”

It had taken me a moment to recall the word, but the moment I said it was the moment I knew it was the right one.

“I don’t know if I’ll be able to think of something.”

“You thought of telling your sister you were going to ask me to be your House Mother,” I reminded him. “Because of that, everyone else in our Houses was distracted and didn’t see you.”

“You did,” Aidan pointed out.

“We’ve already established that we are the ones who can see certain things others can’t,” I said. “It makes sense I saw it, even if the others didn’t. Just try to think of something else, something that will distract them. Something that’s not bad enough to be erased, but something that will cause people to look at you for a few moments.”

Aidan hesitated, but then he nodded. “All right. But you’ll have to work quickly.”

“I’ll free the boy, and then I’ll take him down to the caves we used to play in as kids,” I said, looking back toward the oceanfront.

The boy was malnourished and thin which made the punishments he received all the more terrible. But there was hope in that, I decided. He wouldn’t be too heavy, and I would be able to get him out of the tower long enough to get the shard out of his forehead.

“Skyla.”

Aidan dropped my hand as Lady Sula’s voice called out for me.

Carefully, with a bright smile, I turned around to face her. “Lady Sula,” I said, giving her a small curtsey. “How are you today?”

“I am well, Skyla.”

Lady Sula had been the Lead Elder of my Community for as long as I could remember. She never seemed to age, but if I had to guess by looking at her, she was nearing her sixtieth year.

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