HELLION_THE DEAD HEX by Jenna Lyn Wright

Author:Jenna Lyn Wright [Wright, Jenna Lyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2018-01-29T07:00:00+00:00

12

MAD'S NOT WHO YOU THOUGHT SHE WAS

We’re standing at the crossroads and I’m not certain that we’re going to make it across without these witches tearing each other apart.

“I’m sorry, you knew it?” Kara growls, and if looks could kill Bex would be a pile of ash on the ground with the rest of the Haunted. “You knew Mad was descended from Trivia and you didn’t tell us?”

“I’d suspected, but…” Bex holds out her hand to Mad and helps her up off of the ground. “I wasn’t certain until now. Until this.”

Mad brushes herself off, all the while staring at Bex with wide, uncomprehending eyes. “It was just another one of those… surges or something, like I’ve been getting at the resurrections.” There is uncertainty in her voice, though, and that says more than her words ever could.

“I’ve never had a surge like that,” Kara spits. “Have you, Delaney?”

Delaney shakes her head no. “You could do that the entire time, Mad?” Her words are edged with hurt, and I know exactly what she’s thinking: if Mad had that kind of power in her the whole time, why didn’t she do it when it might’ve saved Anya?

“No! I don’t know why that happened. It just did.”

“You were already strong when you came to the Daughters of the Dead,” Bex says. “But you’ve taken to magic, and especially necromancy, more quickly and with more skill than any of us. Am I wrong?”

I watch as each witch shakes their head in turn. Even Kara, who clearly hates to admit it. “We held the Haunted off, but there’s no way we could have destroyed them, not even with all of our magic combined. That battle should have taken hours. The only person who could’ve had that effect on the Haunted was Trivia herself, or someone with her blood in their veins.”

“Hours?” Runner hisses into my ear. “We barely lasted five minutes! The potential duration of the battle would’ve been nice to know!”

“Would you have still fought if you’d known the odds?” I ask.

He looks at me for a long moment before shrugging, which is his way of saying maybe when he really means no, not in a million years.

“So what does this mean for us? For the Daughters?” Delaney asks.

“Yeah,” Kara says, “Trivia is straight evil. Does that mean Mad is going to turn into some sort of…”

“It doesn’t mean anything,” Bex says. “We all have the blood of our ancestors running through our veins, but it doesn’t make us our ancestors. We are our own witches.”

“Except for Mad’s ancestor happens to be a serial murderer of witches and literally one of the worst creatures in Counterfeit City,” Kara spits.

“Here’s what I know for certain, Kara. Mad used whatever power runs through her to help us. To save us. You want to discount that, fine. But do it later.” Bex crosses the dirt path and I follow, one: because she’s been the de facto leader this entire time, and two: because I want to get as far from the angry witches as possible.

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