What Gifts She Carried by Lindsey R. Loucks

Author:Lindsey R. Loucks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: best selling young adult, coming of age, witches and wizards, zombie fiction, scary ghosts
Publisher: Lindsey Loucks
Published: 2015-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

“Wh-what?” Lily choked.

My hand still squeezed the cheerleader’s throat, but too bad. “You brought that plant back to life. Are you bringing everything else back, too?”

She shook her head hard. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

I opened my mouth and hissed. The light blinked on and off with the speed of a strobe light. Lily’s blonde curls gusted out behind her and sent the pink lily tucked behind her ear spiraling into the bathtub. As soon as I ran out of air and inhaled, the lights returned with an unsteady buzzing. That was suppressed Sorceress power? But I barely noticed any of it except the rage curling my fingers deeper into her neck.

“Please,” she gasped. Tears streaked her face in mascara-tinted rivers. “Please don’t tell anyone.”

My grip loosened. The confused crease between my eyebrows cut deep. I was primed to crush answers out of her, but she was more concerned with me not telling anyone? I took my hand from her throat with narrowed eyes.

“Yes, okay? I brought that plant back,” she said and backed into the far wall next to the toilet, rubbing the red handprint on her neck. “Just like I brought back everything in your yard and Sarah’s yard and as much as I could in the graveyard.” She shuddered and then held up a finger in front of her face. “But not the dead guy or Ica’s tree.”

Hearing that name come out of Lily’s mouth shocked the air from my lungs. “You know Ica? How?”

She looked up at me as if I had just sprouted antennae, which I imagined was the same way I looked at her. “Well, I don’t want to know her, but she’s kind of hard to ignore. She has so much Sorceress power, the school’s walls practically shook with it when she was there, and she doesn’t try to hide it, either.”

I rubbed the confused spot between my eyebrows, hoping that would help things make more sense. “So you just bring back plants and stuff. That’s it?”

“Yes, that’s it. Are you crazy? Never mind. I already know the answer. But I would never bring Ica’s tree back, if that’s what you’re thinking. Even though you think I am, I’m not stupid.”

I held my hand out, palm up, so she might put some answers in it. “Then what are you?”

She looked me in the eye as she chewed her lip, as though she was trying to decide if I would laugh at her if I knew. “A Sorceress,” she finally blurted. “Please don’t tell anyone.”

“Why would I, Lily? I’m one, too.”

“No, you’re not. You’re a Trammeler Sorceress and way more powerful than me. But how are you even alive after going up against One and Two?”

That was too much of a loaded question to answer. “My turn to ask the questions,” I said. “So you were helping me and Sarah. Why?”

Lily glanced into the bathtub at her broken pink lily with a grimace so wobbly, I thought she might break down in tears.

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