Glass and Death by Holly Hook

Author:Holly Hook [Hook, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independently published
Published: 2016-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

"Time to go," I said, picking up my pace.

Wings fluttered. She had been watching this the whole time. Brie passed me the wand while we ran and Candice stayed by my side. We all squeezed out through the gate and through the golden trees. The fluttering stayed with us. She was coming. She must have gotten here before we did. Annie had all night to roam the tunnels while we slept. The tunnel to the castle was the most promising, the most obvious. Of course she would have taken it over the others and gotten here before we did.

And I'd heard something about seven league boots...

"They're running!" Wesley said.

We squeezed through the second gate and past the trees of silver. The fluttering got very close. I ducked my head and kept the wand tucked to my chest.

I had forgotten the book.

I'd dropped it during the fight. I could only pray that Annie hadn't noticed.

"Go!" I yelled at Candice. She ran ahead of me and I put myself right behind her. Ahead was the shore and the boats. They all waited there like silent servants, bobbing up and down in the water. We would have to row while I held Annie off.

Candice jumped into a boat and it splashed. Everyone scrambled to get into one and I dared to turn around. Annie the raven dove right down towards me and I shouted the one spell that popped into my head, the throwback one. The raven hit an invisible wall and flew back towards the castle, hitting the brick with a thud. She fell to the ground, stunned, and fluttered her wings.

I could have killed her, but I hadn't. I turned and boarded a boat with Candice. Annie might go after my girlfriend to make me surrender the wand.

"Row!" Mica shouted.

Everyone had boarded a boat and Stilt and Henry had wound up together. There was no time to look awkward. Everyone took the oars. Candice took ours. "I'll row. You hold her off."

The boat hesitated, then left shore. The raven was recovering. It stood up and stared us down with those soulless eyes. I had never liked ravens mostly because Alric had a thing about them.

Candice rowed faster. I wanted nothing more than to help her, but I was the only one who could hold Annie off. My mind scrambled for a word that would stop her, that would take her flight away. Alric had used another to shift forms before and it was on the tip of my tongue.

"Kill her, Shorty," Candice said. "Don't hold back. Everyone knows you can use magic by now."

I tensed. I couldn't do it and I knew I could, which scared me. This was Candice here. Annie was evil and would kill her. No one else knew the real truth about me yet.

If they did, our team would fall apart. I knew how it worked. Nori didn't even want me and I was her flesh and blood.

The raven took flight.

She dove right down at us. There was nowhere to hide.

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