The Women's War by Jenna Glass

Author:Jenna Glass
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2019-03-04T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

Alys carefully pulled the stable door open, wincing as the hinges creaked. She didn’t think the sound would carry all the way to the servants’ quarters that adjoined the back of the stables, but she herself was aware of even the smallest sound. The chirp of a cricket, the swaying of branches in the wind, the call of an owl…Each sound set her heart racing, her mind scrambling to call up the lie she had created to explain why she was creeping around the grounds of her own manor house at this hour of the night.

It was nearly pitch-dark in the stables, though a little moonlight filtered in from the high windows. Alys slipped inside and closed the door, then stood still and waited for her eyes to adjust. Her pulse hammered in her ears, but it was only in part because of her fear of getting caught. If she were being completely honest with herself, she had to admit there was a high level of excitement mixed in with those nerves.

For weeks after her disastrous attempt to work the first spell in her mother’s book, she had followed the instructions to a tee, double- and even triple-checking each element to make sure she was using the correct ones. It hadn’t taken long for her to realize she could see elements that were not included in her mother’s book, and a quick, stolen glance at Corlin’s primer had confirmed her suspicion that most of them were masculine elements.

Although her mother had anticipated that she might be able to see some masculine elements, there seemed to be no lessons in the book about how to work with them. Certainly there was nothing about combining masculine and feminine elements into the same spell, and Alys hadn’t been able to resist seeing what would happen if she did. It was perhaps foolhardy to attempt to craft her own spells—especially in such an unconventional manner—when she had so much still to learn about magic, but it also seemed wasteful not to take advantage of her unique ability to see elements of all genders.

Every spell Alys had so far learned required the use of a potion as a means of delivery. Healing potions, vanity potions, love potions, even magical poisons. Potions were the cornerstone of women’s magic. One of the masculine elements Alys could see was Tyn, which was used in a great deal of men’s magic to create spells that could affect a human body without the need of ingesting a potion. It was Alys’s theory that adding Tyn to some of the potion spells might make them take effect via touch rather than ingestion. And tonight she planned to put that theory to the test.

When her eyes had adjusted as much as they were going to, Alys crept forward across the stable floor. The dozing horses had all awoken at her entry, but aside from a little shuffling and shifting, they remained gratifyingly quiet as she crossed to Smoke’s stall. The

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