Ever My Merlin by Priya Ardis

Author:Priya Ardis
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Young Adult Fantasy
Publisher: Ink Lion Books
Published: 2012-10-11T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11 – THE GOOD WITCH

CHAPTER 11

THE GOOD WITCH

I woke up with a start, my vision hazy. Blinding halogen lights shone down from spotlights in the ceiling. In a dreamlike trance, I took in the details around me. I sat in a huge chamber that looked like it belonged inside a palace. At the front of the room, a mammoth tapestry depicted a scene of mythical beasts seated at a round table.

My elbows brushed against cold steel. I was sitting in a wheelchair. Close to the head of a long rectangular table, I was placed behind the Queen of England, the First Member of the Wizard Council.

Grey knelt down beside me, wearing a tailored business suit. The cut of the suit made him look surreally older, shattering the little brother box in which I mentally kept him encased. “It’s all right, Ryan. You’re under heavy meds. Try not to talk. They’re going to ask you a few questions when the time comes. I’ll let you know.”

They who? I opened my mouth to ask, but no sound came out. A sharp stab of pain pounded at my temples. I lurched in the wheelchair and Grey righted me. The whole room swam circles for a long minute before I could focus again. When I did, I found Matt kneeling beside me with a worried expression. He was all cleaned up, wearing khakis, a button-up shirt, and to my surprise, a striped tie.

“If this hurts her, I’m going to maim you, Emrys,” Grey hissed.

Matt took my hand in his, heating my chilled skin. “She’ll be fine. She’s strong.”

I didn’t feel particularly strong at that moment, but his amber eyes reassured me. I rasped, “What—”

Matt’s fingers squeezed mine. “Just hang on for a little while.”

I had no idea what he was talking about, but I couldn’t resist a yawn.

He stood up and went to talk to the Queen. Grey exchanged worried glances with Colin. The gargoyle king’s enforcer silently flanked Grey’s side, cementing his allegiance to Grey. Other adults I’d never seen before occupied the rest of the table. By the distinguished grey in their hair and the grim set of their faces, I guessed they must have been middle-aged or older. Two men in military uniforms with a line of gold stars down their shoulders looked perennially bored. Everyone else, including several women, wore the same homogeneous, dark, expensive suits.

Around the rectangle, everyone held their pens poised over white papers. They fidgeted in place, waiting. It felt to me like we were waiting for a board meeting to begin. I turned my head and struggled against more dizziness. Matt moved to stand at one end of the table. He tugged at his tie as if it would strangle him. Behind him, a long, oval table was built on a level above the rectangular one. Other people sat behind the table with microphones and looked down at us, like judges observing a trial. Beyond the higher table, through an opening in the circle, raised, red-fabric stadium seats were set up in a spectator section.

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