Relentless by Scott Prussing

Author:Scott Prussing [Prussing, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-11-15T07:00:00+00:00

Scarcely five minutes later, Leesa dug into her first bite of blueberry waffle. This made it four days in a row for the waffles, but she didn’t care—the way they tasted, she was pretty sure tomorrow she would make it five. She had heard that some pregnant women craved things like ice cream and pickles, but not her. The way she craved waffles and syrup, it was a good thing she had packed the freezer with the frozen treats. You couldn’t beat them for convenience, either, with the microwave ready to heat them up in minutes.

Rave sat across the table, silently watching her wolf down her breakfast. Leesa didn’t understand how he could resist the delicious treat, but she didn’t care—that just meant more waffles for her. She shoved another big forkful into her mouth.

She had devoured two of the four waffles she had prepared in the microwave when her stomach suddenly started to rumble. Before she could stop herself, she let loose with a loud burp. She covered her mouth with her hand, but she was much too late. She felt herself blushing.

“Must be the solstice,” she said, trying to explain away her embarrassing breach of decorum.

Rave grinned. “Either that, or our son can’t handle the way his mother has been shoveling in her breakfast.”

Leesa knew Rave was probably right, but she much preferred the solstice explanation. It was far less embarrassing, and made the whole thing not her fault.

They watched in surprise as a cloud of tiny, misty green energy particles appeared a foot or so in front of Leesa’s face, as if the spray had escaped with her burp. The pale green hue told them the mist had originated with their unborn son. The diaphanous cloud slowly coalesced above the table into a translucent sphere the size of a grapefruit. Rave nudged his chair backward in case he had to move quickly, while Leesa was ready to cast an air shield spell at a moment’s notice. The smoky globe seemed harmless so far, but after what their baby’s magic had done to the mountain laurel, neither of them was about to take any chances.

The sphere began to rotate, turning with tantalizing slowness at first, and then gradually picking up speed. Leesa had no idea what was happening, but she decided safe was better than sorry. Calling forth an air shield, she wrapped it around the twirling green orb, leaving plenty of space between the sphere and the shield so her barrier wouldn’t interfere with her son’s magic unless it started to spread. She was curious to see what might happen with the magic, as long as she and Rave and the house were safe.

Soon the globe was spinning as quickly as one of the colorful toy tops she had played with as a little girl, and she could hear an audible hiss in the air around it from the speed of its spin. The center of the sphere grew intensely bright for ten or fifteen seconds—brighter than any illumination spell Leesa had ever cast—and then the whole thing simply disappeared.

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