Siren Descending by Katherine Smits

Author:Katherine Smits [Smits, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-03T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Shortly before midnight, she gathered her supplies and wrapped them in the silk. To the assembled items, she added a vial of seawater she had collected earlier in the day.

Then she went outside. This witchcraft works better outdoors. Besides, I don’t want to bring evil to our home.

When she arrived at her special spot in the woods, she spread the fabric on the ground. After that, she arranged the herbs and crystals around the candles. She lit them and the incense. At last, she shed the towel which she hung on a bush. Nude, she reached her arms to the sky.

To summon the entity, she sang the ancient words, a throat-searing gargle no human and few Nerei could master. To it she attached her musical lure. That should capture his attention.

As energy pulsed along her nerve endings, she spoke to him. “Dweller of the inferno, Surgat, you who can open all locks and provide passages where none exist. Hear my song. Heed my invocation. Come to me and do my bidding.”

After she repeated the invocation twice, she grabbed the athame, sliced across her palm, and dripped blood into the flame representing earth.

An image formed at the edge of the circle of light, a tall man dressed in black pants and shirt with bare feet. Though his dark eyes, hair, and handsome face reminded her of someone, she couldn’t decide who.

No, not feet. Misshapen claws.

With a glance, he scanned the area. “Who conjures me here.”

In her most mesmerizing voice, she replied. “You will obey me.”

“Who are you?”

“Until you complete the task I demand, I am your ruler.”

Squinting, he leaned toward her. “Tell me your name.”

She folded her arms across her chest. “I’m not so foolish. Call me ‘Siren’.”

With a grunt, he replied. “What do you want me to do?”

“Bring the mage, Thorne Sanderson, from Hades here to me.”

The being recoiled. “That I cannot do. No one may return once they enter the underworld.”

Athenia cut her palm again and squeezed more drops over the altar. “By the power of my blood, I command you.”

Surgat sank to his knees. “Forgive me, Mistress Siren, but I will be punished if I do such a thing.”

With her most compelling song, she ordered him. “By the power of my voice, I command you.”

Howling, he shielded his ears. “Indeed, I cannot, my strength is not sufficient to raise the dead.”

Frustration welled. This is all so unfair. Tears threatened, but she refused to give in to them. Must show him I’m strong enough to control him. She forced patience into her tone. “Thorne is alive. He’s been kidnapped to the underworld, but he lives, and I must help him.”

She lit the vellum containing the portal spell. When fire bloomed, she dropped the paper, threw all the packets of herbs on the fire, and dripped on more blood.

Then she emptied the sea water in a circle around the fire. “By the power of earth, air, fire, and water, I command you. Bring Thorne through, or you’ll serve me until you do.

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