Clawing For Survival (The Dragonclaw Sword Book 1) by Kevin McLaughlin & Michael Anderle

Author:Kevin McLaughlin & Michael Anderle [McLaughlin, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2021-06-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

Amy Williams willed the skateboard beneath her feet to push her faster through the air. She wondered if any of the dwarves below had any idea that the world’s most powerful mage was flying over their heads in the dark. Probably not. It wasn’t like they could sense magic—or so she thought. Thinking of what lay ahead pushed her to even greater speed.

She leaned forward so she moved almost horizontally like an action figure of a superhero that still had the plastic holder connected to its feet while a kid played with it.

Except she wasn’t stuck to her skateboard. Lately, she had practiced ways to augment her magic. A geometric pattern ran beneath all magic, and by using her telekinesis to whip her board around, she could increase her speed while using less magic—or more precisely, using magic more efficiently.

That meant—in practical terms—that she busted a double kickflip and exactly like the video games she used to play, rocketed forward at greater speed.

She was fully horizontal now and had to let the burst of magic dissipate or risk being ripped off her board by the wind. Unfortunately, she could not use her telekinesis on herself. In that way, she was like the dwarves below.

Amy had a soft spot for the dwarves in Canada. When she had manifested her magical powers, her mother had called a group of dwarves who had taken her in despite a team of dragons being hot on her tail.

Looking back on those fateful days, she could see why the dragons had been afraid of her. She had killed not one but two without even meaning to. That didn’t give them license to hunt and kill her like a rabid animal as they had tried to do, but it certainly warranted looking into.

Although it had taken her a long time to recognize even that. It had not been until her best friend Kristen Hall had become head of the Dragon Council and founded her global police organization that the mage had been able to come to terms with the need to investigate strange new magical occurrences.

Now that she was an officer of the Steel Guard—and more importantly, now that there was an organization like the Steel Guard that tried to solve disputes by putting all races on an equal footing instead of prioritizing dragons—she felt especially responsible for young mages manifesting their powers.

When Amy did not have specific duties to perform for Kristen, she was given free rein to pursue her own cases. She had spent months traveling across North America developing mage contacts to help her find these runaway mages and while she wanted to get to Europe, South America, and the world beyond, a crisis always pulled her home. Even though the world was becoming more accepting of mages—slowly but inexorably—a teenager waking one morning and discovering they could light fires or pick their parents’ car up with their mind was still a source of chaos.

It was a cruel trick that magic tended to manifest in people in their teenage years.

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