She Transcends Book One by Odette C. Bell

Author:Odette C. Bell [Bell, Odette C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Odette C. Bell

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Layla

Layla had another moment where she wanted to back out. Or at least some part of her did. It was the little girl who’d cowered after her father’s murder – the same little girl who’d fallen to her knees at the kitchen table after she’d seen her mother strung up. And the same little girl who kept cowering back from every single injustice, because cowering was easier than fighting.

Layla caught flashes of those images now, and they covered her brow with sweat. As a few little droplets trickled down, she grabbed the flywheel harder, her knuckles straining. She went to pull it to the left, but it resisted.

The screen flashed.

Great. Of course there’d be some kind of magical lock. How was she going to get through it?

Pure grit.

She closed her eyes. She thought of the way lightning had crackled across her skin previously. She didn’t need to draw up the exact way she’d called on it. She brought up the sensation, instead, hoping it would be a little bit like reverse engineering. Her mother had always told her that if you had trouble remembering your dreams, one of the easiest ways to cut through the fog was to remember the feeling of the dreams. Then everything else would just flood back in. So Layla imagined the raw, unstoppable feeling of power at her fingertips. She concentrated on finally having the ability to do something – and the desire to get it done.

She growled. It was just as the creature within screamed.

Layla tugged at the flywheel even harder, and finally, it started to groan and move. It’d obviously needed the touch of a magical hand. Well, it would’ve never met a hand quite like Layla’s.

She finally opened the flywheel fully. The door rattled as the locks within disengaged. It hissed open.

“Here we go,” Layla muttered.

She jolted in. Yeah, that’s right. She didn’t wait around to see what was inside. There could be an honest to god cyclops in there. She didn’t care. She would save anyone in pain.

To be fair, as she jolted in, it was to the sight of nothing, because the lights weren’t on yet.

But one by one, they fizzled on above. You’d think, considering that sheer sophistication of everything she had faced in the corridors, the lights would not fizzle. They would run just as smoothly as everything else.

But that fizzle was a rather important indication of what she was about to face.

Layla turned.

She took a step. Her feet… crunched over grass.

She swung her head down. The grass was dotted here and there with flowers. But they were strange. They looked icy, almost crystalline. Everything had a blue tinge. As she stared at the walls, she realized that vines had marched up them. She now knew why the lights weren’t working. The same vines had wrapped tightly around them, half pulling them out of their casings.

“What the—” she said carefully.

She heard a scream in the corner.

She darted her head down. The various foliage was thickest there. There were bushes, stranger than any Layla had ever seen.

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