Sapphire Curse by E. E. Martin

Author:E. E. Martin [Martin, E. E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781092130400
Published: 2019-07-03T22:00:00+00:00

16

Darcy had rested a good deal of the daylight hours but had been stirred awake by a shot of searing pain in her hand. It happened every now and then, especially if she dreamed of her mother. This hadn’t been of her mother though. It was a childhood memory of summer camp, one she didn’t want to dwell on once she escaped it.

Watson sat by the cold fireplace and whimpered. Darcy scratched him behind his ear before she obliged and grabbed some matches from the kitchen. Once the fire was lit, Watson was content to curl up on the floor beside the heat. Darcy nestled into the couch with her mother’s book.

Felicia’s book of spells was more like a scrapbook. There were pages inserted that came from other books. Some were from lined journals, and others were discolored and tattered. There were some entries that Darcy couldn’t understand. Either the handwriting was illegible or the page was riddled with nonsense and pictures.

Darcy had learned through Felicia’s book that the best type of vessel to use when calling on the realm of time was one with tiger’s eye, not that Darcy would be using a vessel anytime soon. After reading notes of how Felicia’s mind swirled after such experiences, Darcy wasn’t keen on the realm of time either.

One note talked about Felicia’s brother William. Though he didn’t practice magic himself, he seemed to be drawn to Felicia in a way witches often were. Blood finds its blood, so said the note. He would call her up after months apart, having felt that she needed him. He knew when she was in trouble. She feared William might one day follow in the footsteps of others in their family and kill himself, but she didn’t write why.

Chilled despite the fire, Darcy flipped through pages for other lessons. Boundaries were weakest on the summer solstice, making it far easier to travel between realms even unintentionally. The winter solstice was the prime day for dark magic, the day Darcy came to be.

Darcy skipped some spells based on what was required. Several asked for an animal’s heart or foot. Watson left the room when she read aloud a spell that asked for a dog’s testicles. She tried explaining he was already neutered, but he was afraid of what else that book might ask of him.

Another spell claimed that the only sacrifice needed was the blood used to write the message. It was a way to communicate with other witches across great distances. Felicia wrote that she had used it once to ask a question about something in Mary’s book. Darcy mulled it over as she read the last note about it.

Careful with this one. You don’t know who is watching.

“No social security numbers then,” said Darcy. She left the book on the couch while she went to the kitchen. She needed a curved knife. That took a little more searching. She soon found one upstairs along with an old-fashioned letter opener. The book called for a separate piece of metal to be used as the writing tool.

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