Savage Magic by Ciara Graves

Author:Ciara Graves [Graves, Ciara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-05T16:00:00+00:00

“The mages should be along the rear of our lines,” I said, tracing my fingers over the map of the fields. “Here. We’ll set up a guard around them. Owen, you have some demons ready to fight?”

He stepped closer. “They’ll keep them alive as long as possible.”

“Macron, you’re sure they’re ready for this?”

The old mage glowered at the map as he replied, “Not like they have a choice.”

The moment I’d found him and told him what Seneca did, he’d taken off. I spotted him arguing with her heatedly in the garden later. He’d been yelling. She’d simply stood there and let him, her face carefully blank like she was doing him a favor by not reacting. Frankly, I was amazed he’d walked away without her killing him. Even Owen had been glaring at her when she passed by. He hadn’t said a word. I understood how hard it was for him, probably almost as hard as for me to see her changed into this cold-hearted being out for blood without care for the consequences of her actions.

“What support can they give?” I asked, trying to keep us on track.

“We’ll shield the front line the best we can and try to counteract whatever magic he’s bringing with him, but if that totem isn’t destroyed, our efforts won’t matter.”

That damned totem. I straightened, crossing my arms as I ran through our plan over and over in my head. Between the fae, the vampires, the demons, and the mages, we had a significant fighting force. If the Feds would’ve listened to us, we could’ve had actual government support. But they assumed Rudarius wouldn’t dare bring his war from Otherworld here. They assumed they’d be able to negotiate with him, stop him by shit I don’t know, sheer will. The fools. It was too late now. The rift grew wider with every hour that passed. Any minute now he could arrive. We talked about traps, but those seemed like a waste of energy. Or they had.

“The traps, I want to talk about them again,” I said, and Macron nodded. “What can we do?”

“We can scatter them throughout the field. They’ll go off like mines.”

“So there’s a chance they could trap our own people?”

“Yes and no. If we have enough time, we can ensure they won’t, but as I said, they take time.”

“Take who you can and start on them. Get as much done as you can, but only complete them if they won’t harm our own forces.”

Macron hurried out of the central command tent, two mages following close behind.

“His army is vast,” Marlie said as if I needed reminding. “He’s been in Otherworld gathering more to his cause. We have no way to know what he’s going to throw at us.”

“Unless you have a point, I’d appreciate it if you stopped telling me how screwed we are.”

“Rudarius might not know how many we have either.”

I shook my head. “Before Seneca cut off the connection with him, he saw the encampment.”

“Yes, but did he see our numbers? Did he see who was here?”

That I wasn’t sure of.

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