Wanted Witch (Daughter of Darkness Book 1) by Val O. Morris

Author:Val O. Morris [Morris, Val O.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-10-24T18:30:00+00:00

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The fire warmed my toes as I got lost staring into the orange and blue flames. We were able to sneak my bike to my house, and we rode away on Spratlin's bike back to the sewers. He thought it was a good idea to make as much progress into the underground cave system as we could while the witch community was distracted. After passing through the huge room where the lava once was, we found a small nook where we set up camp for the night. It had been a long night, and we were both exhausted. Neither of us knew where the cave system ended, so the last thing we wanted to do was walk into a magic fight dead on our feet.

The cave was cool and damp, not my preferred temperature. I liked warm air and the sun beating down on me, but whomever wrote the book on villains left out the part about sunshine. I stretched my limbs back into working order as Spratlin cooked over the fire.

"Ready for breakfast?" he asked.

"Mmmm, nothing like the smell of hotdogs in the morning." Again, not my preferred cuisine, but when stuck underground hunting for clues, I would take what I could get.

"Might as well enjoy a hot meal while we can."

He had a point. The storeroom only had a few items. Luckily, I snagged a jar of peanut butter and some tortilla wraps from my place before we left. After a few meals of that, I'll be begging for a hotdog.

I nodded my head toward the fire. "Did you make that with magic?"

"No. I'm a Water Mage, which means I can only conjure and control water."

"Can you make ice?"

"Yes, but I had to learn. Changing the form of your element from one form to another, like water to its solid state, is called Complex Augmentation."

"Guess mine isn't as cool."

"Lightning may not have another form, but there are still things you can learn to change it up. That's called Simple Augmentation."

He stuffed his trash into his backpack. "And then there's Practical Magic, like picking locks or producing the smell of strawberries."

We sat in silence for a few minutes while I thought about the different types of magic and chewed another bite of hotdog. If I get out of this murder investigation alive, I plan to study up on magic and learn all I can.

There was something I'd been wanting to bring up to Spratlin, and I figured now was a good time. "I've been thinking about what the detective said about my scars. Whoever is behind this doesn't know about one of them."

Each scar represented a life I saved. I explained to Spratlin that assuming Alexa was behind it, it made sense that she knew about Gaylin. That was one. And the mission in the sewers when I saved the little boy made two. Obviously, she knew about Thomas Johnson, which made three.

"So, she doesn't know about the little girl at the arcade."

"That'd be one silver lining." I went back to mindlessly eating my hotdog.

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