Reaper (Dragon Prophecies Book 1) by Hickory Mack

Author:Hickory Mack [Mack, Hickory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mack House Publishing
Published: 2021-07-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 26

Morning stretched into afternoon, and there was still no sign of Wren. When the convoy halted, Elsie was the first off the truck, walking away without a word. As before, she was followed, but Cross kept his distance this time, sending Fairbanks and Hasprey instead. Elsie didn’t give a fuck. The witch—with his rugged looks and stupidly perfect hair—could avoid her all he wanted.

Frost stayed with her, eying the pair with suspicion, which she felt said a lot. He’d been okay with her being alone when Cross was with her, at least until the witch had upset her. He wasn’t okay with these two.

She found a quiet place and stared into the space in front of her, looking for the fissures that would let her into other worlds and dimensions. She’d thought a lot about Wren’s demand that she learn to open a portal from one part of this world to another, and she’d finally made sense of it.

Learning to jump using spatial magic was useful, but it didn’t allow the practitioner to move through solid objects. If she were locked in somewhere, she wouldn’t be able to get out. However, if she could open a door from one space to the next, there was no cage on Earth or anywhere else she could be contained.

Hundreds of fissures lit up before her eyes, each sparking with a different level of intensity. Signatures of the worlds and dimensions that lay on the other side. None of them had the same pattern as Earth. She called her ethereal magic, letting it fill her up, and kept looking, but her eyes were constantly drawn to the fissures she could easily see, making it almost impossible to look deeper.

Elsie closed her eyes and breathed, folding her legs under her so she sat in the lotus position. Frida mewled and changed into her alebrije form, feeding her own ethereal power into Elsie’s. The long feathers of her train dragged in the dirt as she circled around the reaper, fur and feathers brushing up against her, sparking little jolts of power against her hands whenever they were touched.

Keeping her eyes closed, Elsie searched for the fissures again, feeling their presence rather than seeing them. She searched for anything that felt similar to what Frida was showing her. The alebrije was telling her to look beyond what was easily apparent. Raising her hands, she mentally pushed those fissures aside, clearing the path to see what lay in the space between.

Frida purred in response, and when Elsie’s upturned hands returned to her knees, the alebrije rubbed her head in her palms. There was a new sensation, a faint buzzing that tasted of Earth and felt like a cool breeze. It was subtle and distant but so much clearer now that the distractions were out of the way.

Elsie’s chin raised, and her eyes moved under their lids, searching without seeing. Her concentration was so focused and controlled that when a hand landed harshly on her shoulder and a man’s voice sounded in her ear, she leapt to her feet and shouted, her heart racing.

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