Mysticons--The Stolen Magic by Liz Marsham

Author:Liz Marsham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Imprint

12

In Which Zarya Throws Shade (and Several Other Things)

Zarya’s face felt hot, and her hands shook. She felt sick. No, she felt angry.

No, that wasn’t it, either. Well, it was part of it, but not all of it.

She felt embarrassed.

Here she was, jumping through hoops to find someone she had just met, wondering if she needed to hurry to make a good impression, planning out what she was going to say. And the whole time Ami had been here, playing with Zarya’s stolen power.

On top of all that, Zarya had ditched her real friends, and had gotten mad at them for telling her what was clearly the truth. How was she going to face them? What was she going to say to Arkayna? When she thought about what she had said to Arkayna …

SKKKKSSSSH. Zarya snapped back to the present as Ami whipped her hand from left to right, sending out a barrage of blue energy spikes that smashed one bottle after another.

“Enough,” Zarya snarled. Her hands clenched, and she looked down in surprise to see that she was still holding the plastic wand. Without thinking, she pulled back her fist and hurled the wand toward the nearest control panel.

The plastic clanked against a switch, flipping it to the side, and Ami leapt back in surprise as the long pipe holding up the bottles rocketed toward the ground with a clatter. Then the illusionist whirled around to face Zarya.

“Oh! You—you got here so fast!” the elf girl stammered.

A part of Zarya’s mind noted that, in another context, this was exactly the reaction she had been hoping for. But all that was ruined now.

“You didn’t think I’d come looking for my magic?” challenged Zarya. Warily, she began edging toward the controls.

“Of course I did, I just thought…” Ami raised her hands to her head and looked distraught.

Zarya narrowed her eyes. “So you did know! You did this on purpose!”

“No! I mean, yes, I knew it was yours, but…” Ami reached a hand out. “Zarya, I swear, I—”

“Keep your hands down,” Zarya hissed, ducking.

Ami froze, shocked. “Zarya, I’m not going to … Just listen.” She dropped her hand and took a step forward.

“Stop.” Zarya put a hand up in warning. With the other, she groped along the wall beside her for the nearest bank of controls.

“Wait, don’t touch those,” Ami said, a new tension in her voice. “You don’t know what they are.”

“I don’t know what you are.” Zarya’s hand came to rest on a large lever.

“That’s not fair!” Ami retorted. Zarya watched in alarm as her eyes began to flicker with blue sparks. Ami raised a hand, finger pointed accusingly at Zarya. Were those blue sparks on her fingertips?

Panicking, Zarya shoved the lever down. Ropes attached to one side of a wooden platform, suspended halfway up the far wall, went slack, and the platform swung down toward Amileth.

Ami spun and thrust her hands out, and a sheet of crackling blue light shot from her splayed fingertips. The platform smashed into the blue energy, the force of it shoving Ami back a few inches.

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