Unstable: Witches by Rye Brewer

Author:Rye Brewer [Brewer, Rye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-02T06:00:00+00:00

10

I assumed I was dreaming.

There was no other explanation for the fact that I was flying.

No, not simply flying. Soaring.

Jagged, snow-capped peaks rushed by, miles below me, as I glided through an unfamiliar mountain range. The air was cold, whipping my hair around and chilling my skin, but it wasn’t entirely unpleasant.

In fact, it felt incredible.

I’d never been freer in my life, floating high above the world. I felt my face break into a smile as I tilted my outstretched arms and veered gently to the right to circle over a particularly high mountain peak. The wide mouth of a cavern was beckoning to me and, as I approached, an inexplicably familiar figure with black hair and black eyes stood in the snow and gazed up at me.

I couldn’t explain how I was able to recognize the man, but I flew toward him with an eager comfort in my heart, as if I simply couldn’t wait to be near him.

Looking to my right, I noticed something peculiar.

I wasn’t flying with my arms, though the familiar pale limbs were extended to either side of my body.

Rather, I had wings.

Wait. What?

I startled awake with a half-shout of surprise.

No longer drifting through icy summits, I found myself once again on the floor of my dorm.

Surprisingly, I felt normal again. The fever and the aches and the smokiness in my lungs were completely gone. The only thing that remained was the faintest itch in the center of my back, muscle memory from my dream.

Or was it a hallucination?

More bizarre than the fact that I was miraculously recovered was the fact that Aidan Grimsbane was kneeling over me, staring down at me with a level of concern that I didn’t even know he was capable of.

“Moira,” he breathed. His shoulders relaxed instantly when he saw that I was awake, and he leaned back on his heels. “What the hell just happened?”

I cringed and sat up slowly. In the chaos of whatever had just occurred, the door to my room had closed, leaving me and Aidan in almost total darkness now that the sun had completely faded from the sky.

“Ugh,” I moaned, waving a hand to light the dozen or so candles that dotted my room. They glowed to life with gently flickering flames immediately. Aidan stared at the display of magic for a moment before turning his attention back to me.

“Are you okay?”

Did I hear him correctly? Was Aidan Grimsbane, the boy who bullied me from almost the second we set foot in middle school, asking if I was okay?

“Um,” I replied. “I think so?”

“Are you sure? Because you literally just fainted in my arms.”

I snorted and shrugging, trying to play it off like it was nothing. Unfortunately, that kind of stuff clearly didn’t work on Aidan.

He was watching me as if he was waiting for me to explode. Or burst into flame.

“It’s nothing,” I insisted. “I just get stressed out sometimes and then faint. That’s all that was. It’s kind of like… um, it’s like a panic attack.

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