Mirrors of Ice (Bewitching Fairy Tales Book 2) by Celeste Baxendell

Author:Celeste Baxendell [Baxendell, Celeste]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-21T16:00:00+00:00

When Sterling woke up again, Junia was rushing downstairs in a flurry of skirts and curls. Her shrill voice rattled his ears as she called out, “I’ve got it!”

He peeled himself off the ground, ignoring the headache building above his eyes. He brushed off his clothes as Eirwen climbed off the sofa.

“What is it?” Aurelia yawned as Sandor helped her up.

Eirwen stretched her arms up as Sterling walked up and leaned onto the back of the sofa.

Junia shuffled the papers in her hands and said, “The enchantment on the band is a complicated one, but it boils down to limiting your access to your magic. You have quite a large amount of power, but this band only lets you use a tiny fraction of it before you get tired.”

“Really?” Eirwen held her wrist to her chest. “Why didn’t I know this? Why haven’t I realized there was magic in it?”

Good question. But Sterling had a better one, why hadn’t he ever questioned it? He noticed every strange thing about her, except for that?

“There’s another layer to the enchantment. One that shields its effect from you. In your mind the band simply existed, and the magic didn’t let you think about it. Of course, now that you know that, it doesn’t work anymore, it’s not strong enough magic for that.” Junia pushed the curls falling out of her bun back.

Clever, otherwise there would be no point in trying to keep Eirwen’s true power a secret if she would start asking why she couldn’t take her bracelet off. Sterling had to give credit where credit was due, Eirwen’s mother had been thinking ten steps ahead. But why would Eirwen’s mother have done that to her own daughter?

“So, what you’re saying is I have a chance at beating Isolde? How do we remove it?” Eirwen asked, and Sterling couldn’t deny he preferred seeing hope in her eyes than the darkness that had settled into them the day before.

Junia’s face fell. “I wish I knew how, but I don’t. We’d need more details about its origin.”

Eirwen ducked her head, pressing her hands into her thighs. Sterling resisted the strange, distant urge to step toward her and say some pathetic, empty reassurances. Nothing he could say changed the fact the only person who could give them those details was long since dead.

Always one step forward and two steps back. Where were they going to go from there?

He couldn’t tell what she was thinking, but if he knew anything about Eirwen, he didn’t doubt a new plan was forming in her mind.

When Eirwen looked up and turned to him, the look in her eye sent a spark rushing through him. He didn’t have to be told they were about to do something very dangerous.

“We have to go to Silica.” Eirwen flexed her hands into fists. “If my mother enchanted the bracelet, the only way we can find out why will be in her journals.”

“You’ll have to get in and out quickly. You can’t afford the Scholar finding you,” Junia said, eyeing the two of them without bothering to hide the doubt in her eyes.

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