A Shade of Vampire 60: A Voyage of Founders by Bella Forrest

Author:Bella Forrest [Forrest, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Nightlight
Published: 2018-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

Kailani

(Granddaughter of Corrine and Ibrahim)

My apprenticeship with Lumi was far more daunting than I’d imagined. I finally understood why she and her coven kept the whole thing secret in the first place. Some of the steps required would’ve scared others off, but once I’d made my vow to follow in her footsteps, I couldn’t back out. There was no torture or anything particularly gruesome involved, but it wasn’t for the faint of heart, either.

The first five out of ten stages to becoming a full-fledged swamp witch had required physical exertion and mental strength, achieved through a combination of spell-casting and meditation. The sixth stage, however, was something else entirely.

“Are you ready?” Lumi had asked me two days ago, prior to submerging me inside a black capsule filled with a special kind of water.

I’d nodded and listened carefully to her instructions.

“No sound. No image. No physical weight,” she’d said. “Just you, weightless inside the void. Clear your mind of absolutely everything. Think about whatever you want until you have nothing left to think about. Only then, when your consciousness is devoid of any focus, will you be able to get in touch with the Word. Only then will the power touch you. Only then will you truly take your first step toward becoming a swamp witch.”

I’d gotten inside the pod, taking deep breaths as Lumi put the lid back on and locked me in there. I had the option of getting out, but that meant abandoning my apprenticeship completely.

“You’re either in it all the way, or you’re out,” Lumi had declared. “There are no half measures in the life of a swamp witch.”

Blackness swallowed me, as the capsule’s walls blocked all the light and sound. The liquid inside it kept me weightless. I breathed air, with the help of a discrete ventilation system incorporated into the pod. The water was warm, infused with a variety of herbs, flowers, and minerals meant to relax me and enhance my senses. There was no noise coming in. This kind of sensory deprivation was, at first, a tad scary, making me feel like I’d lost my physical form altogether.

But once I got comfortable, floating in what felt like an abyss, I relaxed.

My muscles loosened up. The tension left my spine and shoulders. And a flurry of thoughts swirled through my head. I lost track of time, as I processed every idea, every memory, and every single thought that came to me—from my early days in school, to my dreams of being in the human world and doing some righteous stuff with Lenny in New Orleans, to my recent desire to become a swamp witch and the opposition I’d encountered from Corrine.

I heard, saw, and felt nothing as I thought about everything, about why I was doing this and what my endgame was. The aim was to clear my head completely and reach a meditative state that would establish a primordial contact with the Word—the energy that could manipulate matter through spoken commands.

With the right combination

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