Dead Like Ned by A. A. Albright

Author:A. A. Albright [Albright, A. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-12-16T23:00:00+00:00

14. Ever So Angelic

Those of you with an incarcerated sibling will probably understand that my feelings towards my sister were … complicated. Angelica had done terrible things her whole life long. As well as turning people against me, stealing my friends and boyfriends and anything that wasn’t nailed down, there was also a suspicion that she may have murdered her cat. But no matter what Angelica did, she always managed to get away with it, because she was pretty, charming, and incredibly clever.

Well, she almost always got away with it. After her most recent crime spree, she’d wound up in Witchfield Prison. She’d been working with a gang who were plotting to bring about the return of those terrifying demons I told you about earlier on. There was some evidence to suggest that she’d originally gone into it with the best of intentions, and she’d undoubtedly helped the good guys out in the end; it was everything she’d done in the middle that was the problem.

Angelica was serving fifteen years for her part in the plot. She could hardly be let off too lightly when there’d been so much murder and mayhem involved – but I’d been told that, if she behaved herself, she could possibly be out in ten.

I wasn’t sure how I felt about her punishment, but she was my big sister and, despite everything she’d done, I did love her.

Like all supernatural enclaves, Witchfield Prison existed within a sub-dimensional region, inaccessible to most. But unlike the other enclaves, Witchfield was constantly shifting its position, and had new travelling coordinates at least once an hour. The intention was to make it difficult to plan a break-in, or perform any other magical malarkey that might endanger the prison, and it seemed to work perfectly well in that regard. Some people found travelling there made them extremely queasy, and it had been that way for me the first time I’d visited Angelica. These days, I readied myself with a potion.

One thing I could never prepare for was the loss of power I had to endure in order to visit my sister. For prisoners, their magic was removed for the entirety of their term. For visitors, it was temporary. I had the choice of wearing shackles while I was there – in which case my power would return the moment I took them off – or being disempowered by one of the Wayfarers’ magical devices. It was fairly accurate, time-wise, but there was usually about ten minutes afterwards where I had to sit in the waiting room until I was fully juiced up once more.

Today, though, I chose the disempowerment device. Facing Angelica with shackles on my wrists made me feel vulnerable. It made no sense, seeing as she was one hundred percent without magic for years to come, but it was the way I felt, nonetheless.

She’d been in a high-security wing when she was first incarcerated, and I’d had to visit her in a locked room, facing her through thickened glass.

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