The Avatar's Flames by Benjamin Medrano

Author:Benjamin Medrano [Medrano, Benjamin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-20T07:00:00+00:00

Tadrick didn’t take as long as Ruethwyn had been afraid he would, though he’d needed two rounds of corrections before he’d managed to get the circle right. He’d ended up summoning a minor water elemental, one which was nothing more than a rolling ball of water that burbled and splashed around the circle.

Korima had taken longer so far, but she was coming along well, Ruethwyn thought. She wasn’t too worried about Korima’s skill, as the woman was writing down the runes correctly, and soon enough she’d—

“Gods above!” Barthel’s exclamation was accompanied by a near-deafening blast and the sound of a dragon’s roar, and Ruethwyn’s mind began to roil as panic hit her.

With a flick of her wrist, the wand was thrust into her hand and Ruethwyn spun to see a column of flame blazing before the other group, even Master Mara staggering back from it, Lissa in the front. Within the column of fire, which sent spasms of panic through Ruethwyn, she could see a long, sinuous, draconic figure. The dragon was uncoiling, its scales blazing with internal fire as it raised its head and bugled, and all thought vanished as Ruethwyn acted on instinct, despite Zaria trying to calm her.

Her friends were close, and with her current mana, Ruethwyn didn’t have the power to destroy what she was certain was a fifth rank elemental dragon, even if there was nothing she’d rather do. So Ruethwyn threw caution to the wind, hissing in pain as she drew on everything she had, pain lancing through her like a spiderweb of lightning arcing through her veins as she began to cast a spell, the others just starting to look at her in surprise.

“Ruethwyn, stop! You’re just—no, you’re expending too much!” Zaria’s mental voice was a shock, but Ruethwyn was too far along for her to interrupt.

“Ruethwyn! What are you doing?” Master Mara demanded, spinning around just as Ruethwyn finished her spell.

Power surged out of Ruethwyn in a wave, and ice danced across the floor to where the dragon was spreading its wings. Ruethwyn felt her breathing grow more difficult, and she saw the markings on her arms fading as she lost hold of Zaria and her relatively calming presence.

As Ruethwyn’s vision grew blurry, the pain growing so potent that she found herself swaying in place, the spell took form. A pillar of deep blue ice surrounded the dragon from floor to ceiling, rapidly expanding from only a couple of inches thick to over a foot.

“Rue!” Sella exclaimed, and Ruethwyn shuddered, staggering forward.

It felt like something inside her snapped, and Ruethwyn blinked in confusion, looking at Sella as the other woman caught her halfway to the floor, then gasped out. “R-run… dra-gon…”

Then everything went dark around her.

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