Magic Unveiled (Rise of the Arcanist) by Elizabeth Kirke

Author:Elizabeth Kirke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: urban fantasy, dark fantasy, vampires, werewolves, elementals, strong female characters, witches, lgbt
Publisher: Elizabeth Kirke
Published: 2021-04-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Jen

For a moment, Serana just sat there quietly. I watched her, hoping she couldn't tell how hard my heart was pounding. The twisting knot of anxiety that had been in my stomach for the last six months seemed even tighter. I knew ever since the night that Thomas and Dani didn't come back from Cavaliers that something terrible had happened. Even though, month after month, I tried to keep my hopes up, there was a tiny part of me that was afraid they might never come back. Ever since we started working on a plan to rescue them, I had a sinking feeling it wasn't going to be easy. But I never imagined that Alaria herself was going to be involved.

Finding her had seemed quite a bit less important than finding Thomas and the others, but I still hadn't forgotten that someday we were going to have to face the arcanist and still couldn't imagine how we could possibly do it. I always kind of hoped that maybe we would have been able to weed out the traitors within MES by the time we found her – that we could put together an actual army. Either way, I never imagined we'd do it without Thomas, and Dani, and TS, and Charlie. When Serana first started to speak I assumed I’d at least have Ember, and Mariana, and Shannon... now it was me.

Just me; with barely five years of experience with magic, against an arcanist.

“Well?” I asked, breaking the silence before the feeling like I was going to vomit grew worse. “How do I defeat her?”

Serana considered it, as if she hadn't just spent the last hour leading up to the idea.

“What do you know about arcanism?” she asked finally.

I hesitated. “Not much...” Even though I tried not to think about it too often, I thought back to the night I saw Alaria sacrifice the air elemental. “I guess it's kind of like blood magic?”

She nodded. “Arcanism is a form of blood magic. What do you know about blood magic?”

“It’s powerful?” I offered weakly. “People who use it tend to keep using it. It involves murdering people...” I trailed off.

“You only get so much and then you have to kill someone again,” Mariana said. I nodded at her in thanks.

“That's how vampires were made,” Ember volunteered. “And berserkers and apparently minotaurs.”

“And dhampirs, I assume,” Shannon added.

“Yes, yes.” Serana said impatiently. “Those are all things that come from blood magic. I'm asking if you know how blood magic works.”

We all exchanged a confused look.

“You sacrifice someone and...” I shrugged.

Serana heaved a sigh. “Well, I don't know how you expect to kill an arcanist if you don't even know how her magic works.”

“Most people,” I said, feeling just a little bit defensive, “don’t even think Dewinnos was a real person. At least I actually believe in arcanism.”

She seemed amused. Maybe. “Now, the first witches and wizards discovered and harnessed magic by experimenting with different components; materials to channel the magic, specific words to conjure it, phases of the moon, elements.

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