Sleeping Dragons: An Urban Fantasy Adventure (Sword & Sassery Book 1) by Phoebe Ravencraft

Author:Phoebe Ravencraft [Ravencraft, Phoebe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-20T16:00:00+00:00

Nineteen

I sat across the table from Felicia at Java Jive the next morning. I played with my muffin but couldn’t really find the will to eat it. Even the coffee – usually so essential to waking up and facing the day – was going cold in my cup.

I hadn’t been able to talk to anyone when I got home at night. I’d laid in bed, wishing The Guild of the Blade would make their attack on me and put me out of my misery. Eventually, I’d passed out, but I hadn’t slept well.

“You dislocated her arm?” Felicia said.

“Yeah,” I said. “I feel terrible.”

Fresh tears crowded my eyes. I tried to blink them away.

“I can’t do this, Felicia. I’ve tried really hard. But I can’t make the decharmer work. I’m not a wizard.”

“No, you’re a monk,” she said. “But just because you can’t cast spells like a wizard doesn’t mean you can’t use a magic item. There is no rule in the book that says you can’t.”

“Felicia, this isn’t D&D.”

“I know it isn’t, but maybe you need to think like it is. Look, remember when we were fighting Lord Drachnel, and he was wearing that special armor that repelled all non-magical attacks?”

“Felicia . . .”

“You used your ki powers to hit him and do damage. And you critted on the roll and then maxed out your damage. So Mark ruled that your strike was so powerful it caused the armor to disintegrate.”

“I remember, Felicia, but—”

“There was nothing in the rules that said that was what could happen. Mark decided it would be a cool effect because of your powers and the fact that you maxed out a crit-hit.”

“Felicia, God damn it! I remember the incident, but it doesn’t have one damned thing to do with what’s happening now. D&D is a game. My character is a pretend person. This is real. I’m real. And I can’t do it.”

“You’re not listening to what I’m saying,” she said, taking my hands in hers. “Sassy, I don’t know anything about real magic, but it seems to me if magic does anything it bends the laws of reality. Magic makes things possible that shouldn’t be. So this decharmer should be possible for you to use, even though you’re otherwise immune to magic. The decharmer breaks the rules. You have to think of it like that, so you can break them too.”

I shook my head. Damn but Felicia was naïve. I mean, I knew she was trying to help, trying to encourage me. But she just didn’t get that there was zero correlation between a roleplaying game and real life.

“It’s you who’s not listening,” I said. “To use the decharmer, I have to be able to manipulate the magical energy on the case. I can only perceive that energy half the time. And I can’t do a damned thing with it, even when I can feel it. Ash keeps trying to explain how to do it, and I can’t. He’s asking me to fly, but I don’t have any wings.

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