Relic Guardians Collection by Victoria DeLuis & Meg Cowley

Author:Victoria DeLuis & Meg Cowley [DeLuis, Victoria & Cowley, Meg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: magic, mystery, adventure, mythology
Publisher: Deryn Publishing
Published: 2019-09-11T06:00:00+00:00

Cursed Magic

Relic Guardians Book Three

Meg Cowley

Victoria DeLuis

One

My long overdue study of translation runes and the power of tongues over the past month had paid off. Using my spells, I could decipher every word on Pandora’s Box, or rather, the copy of them I had taken.

I might have been inside the most secure archives in England, deep within the London Magicai Library, where few were permitted to tread, but it would have been more than foolish – catastrophic, even – to bring Pandora’s Box through the heart of the city. It was secure, where it belonged, at the Great British History Museum.

The tension in my stomach did not ease, however.

No, it brought me no joy to translate these glyphs. My skin was cold as I read them, though it was warm – stiflingly so – down here. They foretold doom, should the box ever be opened: plagues upon the world of sickness and ravages against all good and whole until the earth lay in ruin and wreck.

Thank goodness I‘d gotten to it in time. Thank goodness I’d recovered it before it had opened. Thank goodness I’d been able to stop it. I hated to think anything might be locked away from the world, never to be seen again, but if ever an object deserved to be hidden away for all time, it was Pandora’s Box.

I remembered how it felt to hold it in my hands, as if the malevolence inside leeched out and bleached the life from me, poisoning me.

I shuddered. I was really glad the box was no longer in my care, to say the least. I knew as I sat there researching it, my boss, Duncan, would be placing it under wards beyond my knowledge that would keep it safe, secure, and most importantly, unopened.

At least, I thought he would be, but at that moment, my phone rang and his name flashed on the screen. I answered the call within a second; as much to silence the loud ringtone in the silent archives as to find out why he called.

“Duncan?”

“Zoe. I need you back here now.”

“What’s up?” I said, startled by the shaking of his voice. Not fear, not upset, but anger it seemed.

“We have a problem – a huge problem.”

Icy fear plunged through me. “The box. It’s not..?” I breathed. I didn’t dare say it. Open.

“No,” he said quickly, and a huff of relief escaped me. “Not open. Not yet. But it’s in danger.”

“I’m on my way.”

“Is everything alright?” Hayley said.

I started. She was so quiet, absorbed in the ancient texts, I’d almost forgotten she was beside me. She shouldn’t have really been allowed in this part of the archives, but she was so interested in learning more about the Magicai and magical artefacts now she was one of us, that I’d pulled a few strings. Besides, I’d thought she could use the distraction after everything that had happened in the past few weeks with the Cintamani Stone and Ben.

“Um, no, not really. The relic I just recovered? There’s a problem.

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