[Mystic Academy 01.0] Fated by Ednah Walters

Author:Ednah Walters [Walters, Ednah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Firetrail Publishing
Published: 2017-04-15T06:00:00+00:00

The second we got home, we changed, filled water bottles, and piled back into the SUV for Tiger Mountain State Park. As usual, we chose an area off the beaten tracks so we wouldn’t meet anyone. I piled my hair into a messy bun and engaged speed, invisibility, and strength runes. So many runes at the same time felt like a shot of pure adrenaline.

“Can I go first?” Talia asked, bouncing on the balls of her feet.

“Go,” Wes yelled.

She let out a happy “Woo-hoo!” as she took off. She did that every freaking time.

Wes laughed. “Brat.”

“Eat my dust, little brother.” I cut through the brushes and darted around trees. Running had been my outlet for the last two years. To move without layers of clothing, with the wind brushing on my skin felt amazing, but it was nothing like the feel of Syn’s skin.

I jumped over rocks and decaying stumps from years of logging, then shot through a canopy so dense nothing grew on the understory. I caught a flash of red from the corner of my eyes, and I knew Wes was catching up. He was very competitive. We always stopped by one of the creeks, but he tended to pass it and run to the next one before looping around to join us. I picked up speed, zipping through areas that had recently been logged, and headed downhill.

I burst through the trees and slowed to a stop. Talia was seated on a rock, massaging her calf. I skipped over the rocks and joined her.

“What’s wrong?”

“I don’t know. I pulled a muscle.”

“Use your healing runes.” I twisted the lid off my water bottle and chugged.

“I’ve tried. The runes are not working. I think I need more.”

Our parents had said we’d need to etch more runes as needed, but this was the third time Talia had needed more in the last month. Syn’s warning about sharing an artavus flashed through my head. I fished ours from inside the special pouch on the waistband of my shorts and gave it to Talia.

She etched more healing runes on her leg and was almost done when Wes entered the clearing. He was limping.

“You, too?”

“That’s the second time I sprained my ankle and it didn’t self-heal.” He took the blade from Talia and added more healing runes.

Something was wrong. They seemed okay and back in form, but I wondered how long before they’d need more. Talia stood and stretched while Wes finished adding runes. I recognized speed runes, too.

“I slowed down,” he explained when he noticed me watching him. “That’s never happened before.”

My concern shot up a notch. I wish Mom and Dad were around to explain what was going on. Or Syn might. If I saw him again, I’d pick his brain. Something was happening to us, and it wasn’t good. Maybe this was what he’d meant by things going wrong when Immortals shared a blade.

“Can we take it easy going back?” I asked, and they both nodded.

Wes finished with the artavus and handed it to me.

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