Magical Creatures Academy: Books 1 - 4 by Ashta Lucia

Author:Ashta, Lucia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-11-17T00:00:00+00:00

Part Two

~ Thunder Mountain ~

~ Sedona, Arizona ~

~ The beginning of Rina’s third term at the

Magical Creatures Academy ~

Chapter Seven

Within the portal, and free from the prying scrutiny of his people, Leander swept me into his arms. Pressed into the firm planes of his chest, I closed my eyes against the overwhelming stimuli. The flashing lights of his magic, too much like the strobe lights of a pulsing rave, pressed in on me like a suffocating weight.

A deep-seated weakness rooted inside me, making me wonder if I was coming down from an adrenaline rush, an unexpected aftereffect of the use of my mage magic, or some combination of both. Of course, it could be something else entirely as well. Not even Dad’s The Compendium of Supernatural Creatures covered what happened when a dual-shifter-mage—who wasn’t supposed to exist, and who’d lost her shifter powers—used her mage powers without training. Even within the world of magic, where the bizarre and unexpected were commonplace, I was an oddity, one no one had any good explanation for.

Whatever free time I’d had while in the Golden Forest when Leander had had to attend to the obligations of royals, I’d dedicated to making further progress through Dad’s seminal work, a copy of which I’d found in the library. I’d made substantial progress in banishing my lingering ignorance, making me wish I’d read the seven volume collection on the supernatural community before attending the academy instead of fearing the additional disappointment that might arrive from learning what I might not ever be able to become a part of.

Dad’s Compendium explained that a portal behaved much like a wormhole, collapsing the physical distance between the two planes and allowing us to cross over the shortcut. It took Leander and I no more than a few minutes to traverse the vast space between the fae’s Golden Forest and the trailhead of Thunder Mountain in Sedona.

When Leander stepped free of the portal, an abrupt wave of nausea halted my burgeoning relief. I groaned, my head spinning, though I wasn’t sure if anything was actually moving or not.

“What is it? Are you all right?” he asked while the flashing lights of his portal fizzled out behind us.

I tightened my hold around his neck, unable to answer, willing everything to stop spinning, and for the meager contents of my stomach to remain put. I hadn’t managed to eat a single bite of brunch in the end, and right then that was a very good thing.

He wrapped his wings around me, cocooning me in comfort. Immediately, the sensory overload that had its hold over me lessened as his wings pushed away the world around us. I inhaled deeply as a shiver ran through me. I was focused on breathing and making the nausea behave when he whispered, “Rina?”

“I’ll be okay. Just give me a minute.” The words tumbled out in a slur, but they seemed to reassure him, until…

“Oh. My. God.”

The disembodied exclamation had Leander spinning around to identify its source, taking me with him, and giving new life to the vertigo assaulting me.

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