Twisted Souls: Twisted Magic Book Three by Rainy Kaye

Author:Rainy Kaye [Kaye, Rainy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-15T22:00:00+00:00

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As Sasmita and I cut through the edge of town, the dim glow of the moon and sparse streetlights made the tightly packed rows of buildings, the flat peak behind them, and the spattering of trees all the more unsettling. The streets were empty of townspeople, and I had to wonder how many still lived here, and how many were awaiting their funeral.

Snow crunched under my shoes, and I was beginning to hate the sound. My clothes mostly kept out the cold, but the ice under my feet reminded me I couldn’t run fast or far. I just wanted to get the mage back in his prison, but I didn’t even know where the damn painting was.

Arthur had told the man in the green tunic that the mage had taken the picture with him when he’d left. Something told me the mage had intended to keep anyone from being able to put him back. I could only hope he hadn’t destroyed it.

If he had, we were done. I couldn’t even open the portals without the medallion I had gotten from the Devourer in New Orleans, let alone figure out another way to imprison a being like the mage without his portrait. I could barely stay from under his feet in this town.

Even if the portrait was around here somewhere, by some miracle, I didn’t have the first clue where to start. I could ask Ever, but chances were, we were in for a long search in every crevice in the surrounding mountains. As we did that, Fiona would continue to go without the help she needed. No hospital was going to be able to undo what had happened to her on the steamboat in New Orleans, and any time I put into searching for the mage’s portrait was time taken from searching for her cure, hoping one even existed.

If it did, it probably wouldn’t be found in this town. We had already seen enough to know they had nothing to offer in that regard. That meant it was time to leave, to follow the trail to the next disaster and see what we could learn that might help her. Doing so, however, meant turning our back on Haven Rock, on our quest to stop the mage.

I didn’t even know who I was anymore, or why I was here, what I thought I was doing. In a good moment, I was on autopilot, in a bubble trying not to think too deeply about what was happening. During the bad ones, my mind, my body, maybe even my soul, flooded with terror.

I just wanted to go home.

If I intended to help Fiona or defeat the dark witches and mages—or, for some goddamned reason, both—then I couldn’t. I had to keep moving.

I wasn’t sure which direction, though.

Something shifted on the sidewalk. I halted, scanning the shadows.

A corpse had been shoved up against a short brick wall surrounding the front garden of a darkened building. Only the moon and a single streetlight lit the area.

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