The Fatewreaker by M. K. Wiseman

Author:M. K. Wiseman [Wiseman, M. K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Xchyler Publishing

Chapter Fifteen

It was but the work of a gesture and thought for Nagarath to bring her back up.

Coughing and shaking on the shoreline, Liara did not attempt to cast even a spell to aid herself.

Nagarath ran to her, testing her aura as he did so. The warmth of his magick nearly set Liara to tears. Her mage. Her clever, clever wizard. The shock of the icy waters had stunned Liara’s magickal inclination as he had, likely, intended. They were safe . . . for the moment.

“Nagarath.” Liara retched and looked away. “Wait.”

The wizard had his wand trained on her in an instant.

“Don’t come any closer.” She locked her gaze to his, pleading. “I can’t control it. I can’t.”

“I know, magpie.” Nagarath knelt at her side. “That said, the tactic of surprise . . .”

“ ‘—Will forever be better than magick.’ Magus Loothemere,” Liara quoted dutifully, then smiled in spite of herself.

“How do you feel?”

“You can see my aura?”

“Yes.”

“Then you’d best stand back, Nagarath. For I still have some strength, even with the shock you provided,” Liara warned, placing her palms to the ground and covering her wand. “Don’t worry, this time I won’t wreck the ground.”

The tremor was small as Liara expended the last of her available magick. It served to set to rights the weather she and Nagarath had so carelessly ruined. But it left her effectively disarmed of her Art. For the time being.

“Be careful, magpie. Do not go so far that you cannot call the magick back,” Nagarath warned.

“Maybe I should. Incantate would be safer for us all. But Kerri’tarre . . . he won’t allow that to happen. I should know. I’ve been trying it on the sly for days.” Liara closed her eyes to the truth of it, afraid that she might yet cry atop everything else.

She felt Nagarath sit down by her side. His sensitive fingers sought hers, and Liara clung fast, thinking again of how she could well have killed her mage while under Khariton’s influence. She held tight, even as she turned from him to have her silent tears at last.

“I try and I try, but . . .” Liara gulped. “But I really think that he’ll win in the end. Khariton is growing stronger. Eventually he will be stronger than me. Stronger than how I feel for— I couldn’t face it if I were to . . .”

She trailed off, unable to say the words. Unable to make either claim, though the words burned in her throat for having been left unsaid. I love you, Nagarath. Do not let my rogue magicks take you from this earth.

No. Far better the sentiment be left unsaid. Perhaps, then, there was a chance of his doing what needed doing.

Instead, Nagarath chose to ruin her hopes with some of his own. He said, “We will solve this. I promise you that, my— Liara.”

A ripple of emotion stirred within her, some sort of signal, a returning to themselves. A stepping down from the harrowing moment when they had been adversaries, if through no fault of their own.

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