Shards of the Stars by M T Finnberg

Author:M T Finnberg
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9789527384121
Publisher: Wide Avenue Publishing
Published: 2020-06-28T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

“I hate fae magic,” I muttered through my teeth, staring into the darkness of the fae-style prisoner cart. Both my wrists were adorned with ropes of purple light. It was fae magic, but it felt tangible, like real rope. At least our hands weren’t tied together, and it should have been easy enough to sleep on our blankets, even, which we’d got thrown in with us in the cart…but obviously we couldn’t. The light from the binds gently danced around the cart in the twilight, as I moved my hands. “Why does it have to be so pretty but so horrible?”

“Please don’t hate fae magic,” Lyria huffed. “Actually, if anything, you should learn a few tricks. Did you know you can do that? Not get the powers, of course, but learn how to handle the magic like we traditionally do. Make the same moves, but fill the spells with magic from the earth and the air.”

After Cantillion’s men had thrown us here, she hadn’t seemed so worried anymore. Her optimism about the whole situation was reassuring, and I desperately clung to it, though I didn’t exactly get why she didn’t fear Cantillion, who even talked to her so horribly. Also, she hadn’t wanted to share much about what she expected would happen.

I huffed as an answer to her, smiling. “Learn fae spells? That’s aiming a little high, isn’t it?”

“It’s not easy, but I’ve heard it’s done…I don’t know how well you’re aware of the different types of magic in this world? You’re using earth magic, because you’re human, and that’s good, since you can find it interwoven in everything, after all, everywhere, if you know how to find it. In the air and the earth…But what you might not know is that some of the general magic runs in human veins, too, but so faint people can’t feel it, and it’s a less powerful kind than what the fae use. It can be called up using stones, that’s what wizards do, that’s what you do. When you call upon your stones, you call upon that faint magic inside of you as you’re calling the magic in the air, soil, water. The fae have a different type of magic. In the fae language, it’s called courazs. And I have that kind, Milla. Fae magic. The only thing that sets me apart is, I haven’t lived all my life in fae society or used the magic in my everyday life like they do. Still, mine works the exact same way, behaves the exact same way, obeys the exact same rules. I have courazs in me. So please don’t hate it, we can do good things with it. Cantillion always used to say, it’s all about how you use it.”

“Of course it is,” I hurried to whisper. “And I didn’t mean that I hate it, per se, I only mean I hate how they can do almost anything they want with it and treat the world in whatever way they want…I don’t

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