Canavan, Trudi - Black Magician 01 by Canavan Trudi
Author:Canavan, Trudi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Chapter 15
One Way, or the Other...
Sonea watched as water, seeping through a crack high on one wall, gathered into a droplet, ran
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down the empty lamp hook, then dove off to splatter on the hard floor.
Looking up again, she
watched as another droplet formed.
Faren had chosen her latest hide wisely. An empty underground storeroom, with brick walls and
a stone bench for a bed, it held nothing flammable or valuable.
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Except herself.
The thought sent a ripple of fear through her mind. Closing her eyes, she quickly pushed it aside.
She had no idea how long she had been in the room. It could have been days, or merely hours.
There was nothing to measure time by.
She had not felt the familiar shift within her mind since arriving. The list of emotions which
could set off her powers had grown so long that she no longer kept a mental count of them.
Lying in the storeroom, she had concentrated on staying calm. Each time a thought disturbed
that calm, she took a deep breath and pushed it away. A comforting detachment had settled
upon her.
Perhaps the drink Faren had given to her had caused that.
Drugging her will only make it worse. She shivered as she remembered the strange dream
she'd had after the fire. In it, she had visited a magician in the slums. Though her imagination
had invented a helper, his words had been no comfort. Taking a deep breath, she sent the
memory away.
Obviously, she had been wrong to think she had to keep a store of anger inside to call upon when
she wanted to use magic. She now admired the magicians for their control, but knowing that
they were emotionless beings did not give her any more reason to like them.
There was a light tapping on the door, then it began to open. Smothering a twinge of
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apprehension, she rose and peered through the widening crack. Cery stood there, grimacing
with the effort of moving the stiff metal door. When he had pushed it open enough to slip
through, he stopped and beckoned to her.
"You have to move again."
"But I haven't done anything."
"Perhaps you didn't realize."
Slipping through the door, she considered what this might mean. Had the drug prevented her
from feeling the magic slipping from her mind? She hadn't seen anything explode or burst into
flames. Were her powers still escaping, but in a less destructive form?
The questions brought her dangerously close to feeling strong emotions, so she pushed them
from her mind. Following Cery, she focused on maintaining her sense of calm. He stopped and
climbed a rusty ladder set into the wall. Pushing open a hatch, he scrambled through, sending
fresh snow into the passage.
Following close behind, Sonea felt chill air on her face as she emerged into the daylight. They
stood in an empty alley. Cery grinned at her as she brushed snow from her clothes.
"You've got snow in your hair," he said. He reached out to brush it off, gasped and snatched his
hand back.
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