Forgotten Destiny Book Five by Odette C. Bell

Author:Odette C. Bell [Bell, Odette C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Odette C. Bell

7

The archive room was just as dark as I remembered.

This time, I didn’t hang around in the doorway.

Max’s warning rang in my mind. If I was stupid enough to face any agents when I walked out of one of these magical doorways, they might be able to figure out what kind of spell I’d cast, then they could call through and warn Jason. Then the rest would be history. Painful history.

So I ducked forward quickly, shrinking to the side as I closed the door.

It gave an audible click as it shut. One that I swore shook right through my stomach. Because it was one that signaled that the game was once again on.

I spun around on my foot, keeping low as I headed toward the closest shelves. I pushed my back against it, controlling my breathing as I narrowed my gaze and kept my senses plucked.

I had no idea if anyone was in here, but the more I waited, the less I heard. Finally it gave me the confidence to push forward.

I shoved away from the shelf, keeping a hand on it to anchor myself. I tilted my head up and noted that the lights hadn’t turned on yet. Probably they’d been blown after the magical battery had been released.

I frowned as I tilted my head down and faced the channels in the floor.

They obviously hadn’t been reset yet. Though there were a few magical flickers of white light here and there, it was nothing compared to the veritable sea of magic I’d faced earlier.

I kneeled down, and though it was probably suicidal, I shoved my fingers right into one of the channels.

I wasn’t stupid enough not to protect my hand. I allowed a deep blue crackling charge of magic to spread over the fingers before I pushed them into the channel. It was more than enough to protect my hand from the latent charges of magic. That being said, there weren’t that many of them.

… Which made me frown.

Casting my mind back to only a couple of hours ago when Josh and I were here, I remembered the light being intense and the magic wafting off those channels being far more intense.

… That meant something, didn’t it?

“I wonder if it’d been a while since they’d bothered to clean out the battery?” I muttered to myself, keeping my voice low nonetheless, even though I was confident no one was in the room.

That thought struck me. It was important somehow.

I got back down on my knees again and pushed my fingers through the channel. This time I didn’t even bother to protect my fingers with magic. And even though they got a little toasty, I didn’t yank them back. I frowned hard. Then finally I closed my eyes. “Take me to where you wish to take me,” I told the magic. As far as finding things went, it probably wouldn’t work. I mean, it was about the most amorphous command I could give.

But either it was the pressure of the situation, or the fact that I now knew that I was on my own, but I soon found myself pushing forward.

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