Necromancer Unleashed: Book 2 by Lindsey R. Loucks & Stones of Amaria

Author:Lindsey R. Loucks & Stones of Amaria [Loucks, Lindsey R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: necromancer, ghosts, occult, near-death experiences, dark fantasy
Publisher: Lindsey Loucks
Published: 2019-11-20T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

I rushed forward blindly, my heart slamming my panic deeper into my veins. "Who screamed?"

Seph. Oh gods, I had to go to her.

"I don't know,” Ramsey said, closing the kitchen door behind me. “But the more important question might be what happened to the magic in the school?" A pause, then, "And why my magic isn't working."

"What?" I snapped my fingers, and a flame of murky gray light licked across my palm. "Are your reserves—"

"My reserves are fine."

Realization crashed to the forefront with a surge of renewed panic. "The dampener. It's here." I looked up at him, my stomach dropping lower than my toes. "The stone!"

He grabbed my wrist as I started to run toward it. "We need to find the dampener."

"But all of the stone's protections—"

"Could come back once we find the dampener and destroy it." He glanced down at Vickie's diary on the floor by his boot and knelt next to it.

I stared at the small light burning in my hand. "Why am I not affected by the dampener and you are?"

"You were outside and I was inside when that spell was uttered." Cautiously, he picked up the diary. "This was inside."

"Is the dampener inside it?”

With a brutal rip, he tore the pages from the leather cover, and lemon seeds cascaded to the floor from the narrow space between the spine and the pages.

"One of these might be the dampener.” He gazed up at me, my gray light giving his gray eyes a silvery glow. “Help me pick them all up."

I knelt next to him and helped with one hand while I lit the shadows with the other. "These all look like lemon seeds."

"But something caused the magic to go out."

"Do you think Vickie had the dampener? Did the skin-walker just...give it to her after it was stolen from White Magic Academy?" I gasped. “Was she the skin-walker?”

He shook his head, the pile of seeds in his palm growing higher. "I have a feeling there's a lot about Vickie we didn't know."

"She did say she knew where Professor Wadluck was. Maybe because she put him there."

Even as I said it, though, I didn’t think that was right. She’d hid in a second bedroom for a reason, was murdered for a reason.

Ramsey released a long breath. "I heard a sound in here, Dawn, felt a presence, but the shadow-walker came from behind you. It's almost as if there was more than one person working together to make sure the dampener was activated."

I nodded. "A skin-walker. A shadow-walker."

"And whoever else."

“So if we find the dampener, there has to be a way to un-activate it.” I poured all of my collected seeds into his hands, almost two fistfuls worth. Vickie really loved her lemons.

He stood as he pocketed them. “I sure hope so. Do you have anything else on you that might be the dampener?”

“No. Noth—” My fingers grazed my pocket with the bell inside. The bell from the cemetery that had been placed by an invisible hand so I’d be sure to find it.

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