Magical Arts Academy: Sorcerers' Web by Lucia Ashta

Author:Lucia Ashta [Ashta, Lucia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Awaken to Peace Press
Published: 2018-09-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

“All right, darlings, let’s do this,” Arianne said. Her voice quivered just the slightest bit, undermining much of the resolve I’d built over the last few minutes. The red-haired grandmother, who possessed the vitality of someone decades younger, was normally assured and confident. She wasn’t the kind of woman who hesitated in anything she did.

She was hesitating plenty now, taking in deep breaths to steel herself before beginning whatever it was she was going to do that would free these firedrakes from their curse.

“Mathieu, Sylvia, I’ll need you by my side the whole time.” That was a given. It’s where they would have been regardless of her request. In theory, Sylvia was Mordecai’s firedrake, but since Sylvia and Mathieu were mates, and Mathieu was Arianne’s firedrake, Sylvia was around the witch nearly as much as Mathieu was. Mordecai didn’t seem to mind; he liked being around Arianne too.

She moved to the dozen firedrakes that the SMS had used as steads in the sky. “You, darlings, please form a circle around us to help hold in the energy. I promise I’ll attend to you too. I’d never forget you. I just need to attend to the other firedrakes first.”

When she said she’d never forget them, I believed her. She might forget an ordinary human or a magician, but not a mythical creature in need of her help. Never.

The dozen firedrakes, including Elwin, the bluish indigo creature who’d fallen from the sky during Nando’s rescue, appeared to understand Arianne perfectly. I wasn’t sure how, as none of them gave any outward indication they spoke our language, but they shuffled backward to enclose the rest of us in a large circle. They spread their wings until the tip of one overlapped the tip of the wing next to it, and I resisted a sudden surge of claustrophobia.

It’s no big deal, Isa. It’s only a circle, and it’s open to the sky.... Yeah, but it’s a circle of firedrakes.

I breathed deeply and took half a step closer to Walt, who’d released me once I seemed to relax.

“Isa and Walt,” Arianne called, and I was thankful to place my attention on her instead of the creatures, no matter how friendly that Elwin one seemed to be with his strange firedrake smile. “I want you to watch exactly what I do, but stay out of the way.”

I nodded—I was happy to stay out of the way—but Walt stiffened.

“What I’ll be doing is dangerous,” she continued. “In fact, I’ll give it a try, but we might have to stop at some point and wait for Gustave to join us. For now, I think I can do it on my own. He needs the time to help Humbert, the poor darling, suffering for what those terrible sorcerers have done.”

She momentarily went somewhere else in her mind—reflecting on poor Humbert, no doubt—then snapped back to us.

“Please don’t interfere under any circumstances. Unless I ask you, I want you to remain within the circle of the firedrakes’ protection, but as far away from the magic that I’ll be doing as you can.

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