Real Magic by Chloe Garner

Author:Chloe Garner [Garner, Chloe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: A Horse Called Alpha
Published: 2019-12-29T16:00:00+00:00

Jason showed up right on time. Not a minute earlier than the hour Sam had promised them. Valerie took another hot shower, putting on the same clothes she’d been wearing for three days now, then brushing her hair out and brushing her teeth with a toothbrush straight out of the package and a brand new tube of toothpaste.

It was more refreshing than it should have been.

Ethan raided the refrigerator, the pantry, the cabinets, and he came up with a selection of foods, leaving them out on the counter in hopes that Jason would be able to tell them where to find a cooler or something to pack them in.

Optimist.

Valerie ate another bowl of cereal, then poured herself a glass of orange juice and went to sit at the couches in the front room, there under the tall windows where she could see upstairs, going through the tool box one slot at a time.

The potential of the ingredients there made her fingers sweat. It was akin to being in Mr. Tannis’ classroom, surrounded by everything, but it was like Samantha had gone through and found everything her subconscious mind had ever wanted to cast using and put them all in one place.

She could do anything with those. Combined with the ingredients still stashed against her skin in the various magic-user wraps…? She could conquer the entire world, it felt like.

Ethan came to sit down next to her and she gave him the pieces of the story that Sam had told her. He listened quietly, nodding slowly as she spoke.

“You believe it?” he asked. She shrugged.

“Do you not?” she answered.

“Who are we fighting then?” he asked. “Who runs the schools? Who makes the plans? If they’re all doing different things, who is the Council up against?”

“I don’t know,” Valerie said. “Maybe it’s always the same group. I mean… Fact Alexander is, you know. We know that he’s a real person and that he is the head of… something. Maybe it’s like the United States, with a president who’s in charge of everything, but two political parties and fifty states that all do their own thing all the time anyway, you know? Like, sure he’s in charge, but of what? And when his goals and the goals of the sub-factions go against each other? Who wins?”

Ethan shook his head.

“It was simpler when it was just the Superiors.”

Valerie nodded, and he put his arm across her shoulders.

“But it’s all going to be over, soon,” he said. “Right?”

She looked at him.

“Nothing is going to be over,” she said. “You heard him. You were here for that part. There’s still going to be a war. The Council is still going to think that they can jerk me away and put me in some black hole and try to use me to get to my mom. I still can’t go back to school. All that’s going to be over is the single threat to all of humanity that we didn’t even know existed until yesterday.”

The big black SUV rolled up to the house and Jason got out, coming to stick his head in the door.

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