The Dragon of New Orleans by Genevieve Jack

Author:Genevieve Jack
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781940675473
Publisher: Carpe Luna Publishing

Crimson rolled over and rubbed her eyes. It was early. Not even ten in the morning. She’d been up most of the night performing a completely fake ritual for a couple that had renewed their vows. It was exhausting making that shit up. It had to look real without actually doing anything at all. Ironically, it would have been easier and less draining for her to do the real ritual, but no way was she going to call on the spirits to help every traveler who tossed a few C-notes in her direction. She needed to save her real power for herself.

“This better be good,” she said to the demon standing over her. She’d nicknamed this one Chuck. Not that demons used names. These entities, she’d learned, weren’t identities in and of themselves, but hollow and dark energy. They absorbed, drained, and fed off human experiences, creating none of their own. No personality. No soul. If you took raw desire and coupled it with a bottomless pit of need, you’d have a demon. Still, she’d named each one for her own purposes. It helped her tell the demons apart. This one seemed oddly shaken. That worried her. There wasn’t much on this side of heaven and hell that could shake a demon. She reached out to touch the thing so it could show her what had happened.

Images flashed through Crimson’s brain. The girl, Raven, sat behind a desk, a massive book open in front of her. She looked up, straight at the demon. Her blue eyes flared. Crimson felt what the demon had felt, a tug of immature power deep in its torso.

“Hello. What can I do for you?” Raven said, addressing the demon directly.

Whoosh. Chuck passed right through her on his way back home, and what he saw inside her was the most terrifying part of all.

“Interesting,” Crimson said, stroking the back of the demon’s head. “Not only can the girl see demons, but her body possesses a strange mixture of raw magic. It seems Gabriel’s tooth has awoken something in her. Something I haven’t seen before.”

The girl wasn’t entirely human. Raven had power, power she hadn’t yet learned to use. After the way the demon had reacted to the name Tanglewood inside the Three Sisters, Crimson suspected that Raven came from a long line of powerful beings. She hesitated to use the word witch. The traces of magic the demon had sensed as it passed through her were broader than traditional witchcraft. Perhaps sorceress was the better term. Perhaps something more.

“Tanglewood,” Crimson said, and the demon hissed as if she’d burned it. She narrowed her eyes. “What do you know about that name? Show me.”

The demon refused, squealing and drawing away. Crimson grabbed a white ash root from her nightstand and stabbed it through the demon’s toe. It cried out, but now it wouldn’t be going anywhere. As it twisted and thrashed, she removed her nightshirt and began massaging her breasts, tracing around her nipples with the tips of her fingers.

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