The Revenge of Magic by James Riley

Author:James Riley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin

- TWENTY-FIVE -

FORT WOKE UP IN A shadowy room, and it took him a moment to recognize the steel table he was lying on. A day earlier, it had been covered in various bones, but now it was draped in a white sheet, with another sheet covering him.

“Hello?” he said, not sure if anyone else was there in the dark. He sat up and gently touched his chest and back, expecting to feel bruises or soreness from where he’d fallen through the floor. But wait, no, that had been in Sierra’s memory. Still, Trey had hit his shoulder with a magic missile before he’d slipped into Sierra’s past, and the shoulder was also totally healed. Not only was there no pain, but as far as he could tell, there wasn’t even a bruise. How long had he been out?

“You’re awake,” said a voice, and the light flipped on. Dr. Ambrose stood up from a chair across the room and rubbed her eyes, then walked over to the table and gently felt for his pulse. “You might feel a bit groggy from the sedative, but otherwise you’ll be fine.”

“But my shoulder,” Fort said, more confused than anything. “Did you—”

“Heal you?” Dr. Ambrose momentarily looked annoyed. “Do I look like I’m twelve? No, I just diagnosed the injuries, so Jia could target her spells better.” She rolled her eyes. “Twenty-five years as a doctor, and I’m assisting a teenager. The universe hates me, kid.”

Jia had been there? Apparently Cyrus was right, it had taken a trip to the hospital for her to see him again. But something else bothered him about Jia. She’d been in Sierra’s memory too. Did that mean the two knew each other? Did that have something to do with why Jia wouldn’t talk about Sierra?

And how much time had passed in Sierra’s life between those two memories? The last time he’d seen Sierra, she’d been training with Dr. Opps. But this one had been a full-blown attack. Could that have been the attack at the NSA? It certainly wasn’t the one on the National Mall.

But what were the students doing at the NSA? And were they the reason it had been attacked? There were so many questions, so many secrets that Dr. Opps was keeping from him.

Right now, though, Dr. Ambrose was staring at him like she was waiting for something. “I’m sorry about what happened out there,” Fort said to Dr. Ambrose. “I don’t know what—”

“Sounded like you were living out an attack by one of those monsters again,” Dr. Ambrose said, sitting gently on the edge of the table.

The memory of the Chads doubting him came rushing back, and he quickly sat up. “I know it wasn’t real, but I wasn’t making it up, either. I don’t know how to explain it, but I really did see another attack.”

Dr. Ambrose sighed, then nodded. “I know you did, kid. And that’s why you need to go home. Leave this stuff behind. There’s only going to be more to come if you stay.

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