Barbed Wire Heart_Oona Goodlight_book two by Alexes Razevich

Author:Alexes Razevich [Razevich, Alexes]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Razor Street Publishing
Published: 2018-05-22T18:30:00+00:00

Sleep was definitely out of the question now. I put Dee’s phone on to charge and thought about what he’d said. The lesson of the messenger was that I could make things move by thinking? That didn’t make a lot of sense when put against the actual message delivered: to not pursue the hunt. The hunt for Aunt Mich I’d thought at the time. What if it meant the hunt for more and new power? Maybe the lesson was to be happy with my psychic powers and stop trying to learn the sort of magic Dee did.

I heard the water turn off in the shower. A few minutes later he emerged from the room, steam flowing out with him. He had a towel around his hips and was using another to dry his hair.

I had a question that had been scratching at me about the magic Dee did. This seemed as good a time as any to ask it.

“Will you tell me something honestly?”

Dee stopped toweling his hair and looked askance at me. “I’ve never not been honest with you.”

Okay, that wasn’t the best beginning.

I tried again. “You know your traffic trick—how you make cars move out of the way for us and lights turn green when we approach?”

He cocked his head and looked at me. “Yeah?”

“How do you do that?”

His expression didn’t change. “Magic.”

“I know magic, but yesterday when we saw The Gate and Bridget on the street, a girl ran out of a store and moved her car just in time for us to pull in next to them. Did you make her do that?”

He sat near me on the bed. “No. There aren’t a lot of rules in the magic community. Well, there are, but there aren’t a lot I pay attention to. One that’s firm is, you don’t mess with people’s minds or their free will. You do, and it’s game over, lights out. The Magic Police and The Council have no tolerance for that, and no pity.”

I took that in. Seemed like a darn fine rule to me.

“Then how did you do it?”

He blew out a breath. I knew he was trying to figure out how to say in words something he did so often and automatically that it was like trying to explain to someone how to walk.

“I cast a general spell asking for what I need—a parking spot on such and such a block, for a car to clear a space in a lane, whatever. It’s a request. People can grant my request or not as they please. There’s usually someone who says yes. You just don’t notice when there isn’t.”

I could see that.

“But how do you make the traffic lights be green?”

“That’s different. That’s machinery. I make it bend to my will.”

He was grinning as he said it and I wasn’t quite sure if he were teasing or telling me the truth. I decided not to press it. The towel around his waist had come loose while we were talking. I suddenly had a rather good idea about how to fill the time between now and when we needed to meet his friend.

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