Ordinary Girl (The Dark Dragon Chronicles Book 1) by Ripley Harper

Author:Ripley Harper [Harper, Ripley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ordinary Girl
Publisher: Ripley Harper
Published: 2020-02-10T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Such dark Transformations, however it may seeme to be a continuate outcome, may yet be avoided if the Juvenile is diligently drilled into magick from earliest childhood. Conversely – If such training is left too late, a Juvenile may gain such power as is most violent, so that the ferocity of Bears, Wolves, Lynces, Tygers, Lyons, Elephaunts &. will be nothing in comparison.

Upon this good hope I therefore doth proceede: that no Keeper of the Black Clan shall forsake their duties, allowing a Juvenile to grow into the easy ways of a human childe. For once such freedoms doth take hold, no Spells, Charmes, Amulets, Ligatures, Philters or Incantations could ever undoe the damage, and the savagery to followe will surely only be halted by the sworde of a Slayer.

From A Full Treatise on the First Protocols (1658),

author unknown

This is what I remember of the rest of that day.

I know that Daniel phoned his father, who arrived home minutes later with screeching tires and a desperate, painful look of hope on his face. I remember the way Daniel’s mother kept touching her husband and son, as if she could not trust her eyes, and the way they tried to thank me, stammering and shaking. I remember that Daniel avoided my gaze and my touch, his eyes suddenly different. I remember that I tried to speak to them but that the words of this language felt strange and clumsy on my tongue.

I was lost in an ocean of power, and it took everything I had not to drown. To remember who I was.

To not let go.

I remember that I sat quietly to one side for a while, smiling at the little family, pleased to be there. I enjoyed the intensity of feeling all around me: the tangled, crackling energy of an uncertain new beginning.

I remember that at one point my focus slipped, just for a moment, and that I was pulled into the ocean of power crashing inside me by a current too strong to fight.

I remember that I gave in to that power without further struggle.

That I allowed myself to dissolve in its embrace.

*

After that I can only remember fragments and impressions, snatches of feeling and bursts of color, but whenever I try to recall any specific detail my memory is unfocused and weirdly out of sequence.

I remember the awe on Daniel’s mother’s face, and then the panic. I remember her pleading with me, on her knees, and that I allowed myself to be led out of her house so that she could lock the door against me. I remember that Gunn arrived pulsing with an unfamiliar, violent kind of energy; that there were whispers in the dark and loud screams coming from inside the house. I remember a fire and the sound of sirens, somewhere not too far away.

I cannot remember how all these events fit together, or in what order they occurred. I did not care, was hardly even aware of what had happened. I was lost in a haze of pleasure, floating on a euphoric high.

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