Throne of Night by B. Kristin McMichael & J.A. Armitage

Author:B. Kristin McMichael & J.A. Armitage [Armitage, J.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Enchanted Quill Press
Published: 2020-03-11T05:00:00+00:00

15th March

After making the wall yesterday, Mal immediately disappeared. I didn’t ask her to drop me off back with Red in Azren. What good would it do? She didn’t have answers. It was better to stay in the forest and let myself think.

Mal didn’t give me much to go with. She said it was a curse and dark magic, not a sickness. So calling any other healers, no matter how insulting to Mal it would be, wouldn’t help. The wolves didn’t need to be healed. They needed to be uncursed. They needed magic. But where was I supposed to get magic? Mal said it was dark magic. Did I need someone who did dark magic to undo it, or did it need another kind of magic?

Magic was a lesson Red didn’t cover when I grew up. Yes, Red had magic. It was what made her the Red, but I never really knew what that meant. It wasn’t like she could do magic; it was more like there was magic inside of her.

No one in Elder studied magic. The few witches we had left all learned in a different kingdom. While some of the stuff we used had began magicked to do what they did, mostly Elder citizens stayed away from anything magic. It was a lot easier to trust what you did with your own two hands rather than magic. I hadn’t been taught much of magic beyond the few books that vaguely mentioned it in my childhood education. And I ignored those as I planned to live my life in Elder where magic wasn’t needed.

I thought I would head home for the night, but I couldn’t. My friends were trapped in an enormous magical bubble with wolves that were going crazy with hunger. I couldn’t help them, but I couldn’t leave either. There had to be an answer; we just weren’t seeing it.

Mal left so quickly I didn’t have time to ask her all the questions now swirling in my head. It was as if she were scared of the wolves. That was crazy. She was a healer. She couldn’t get the wolf curse if they bit her, and the wolves were fine during the daylight moments. I wished she would have stuck around just a bit more to explain things to me. I was left with fewer answers than before and in a direr situation as my friends were trapped. While I knew they wanted it that way, all the wolves did, they were still my friends, and I didn’t feel safe with them where I couldn’t protect them myself.

It wasn’t the best choice to stay near the wolf village. I couldn’t see anything, but I heard them all night long. The wolves were howling and growling enough to wake me, and I wasn’t anywhere near them. I feared for Grace and Nikkan. They were just two wolves in a cage full of them. Could they stay safe in all that?

The howls were terrible enough, but what was worse were the human calls.

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