Spell of Shadow & Light by Melinda Kucsera

Author:Melinda Kucsera
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fantasy, epic fantasy
Publisher: Melinda Kucsera
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

Too much magic crawled over every stone in Sarn’s vicinity. Not good. One wrong thought, and the kid could pull the whole mountain down on their heads. No amount of fancy flying would save them from a concussion or worse if Sarn did. Thing clenched his claws at the thought and flew toward the prison and the stairwell closest to Nulthir’s flat until the kid’s magic was just a vague green glow far behind them.

“Why did we leave? That was Sarn and his brother in there. You saw them. He has so much magic the air shimmers around him. He could help Nulthir.” Crispin twisted in his grip, trying to break it.

But Thing held on. He didn’t trust his son to follow him. “No, he can’t.”

“Why not? He helped once before. I’m sure he’d do it again. He was a nice boy, so was his little brother, and you saw how he glows. He’s blinding to my mage sight.” Crispin flexed his spine and made another bid for freedom.

Thing let go, and Crispin landed on all fours on a ledge two feet below them. Thing landed beside his glowering son and got right up in his beak. “Did you see who was in there with them?” Because Thing had, and what he’d seen had disturbed him greatly.

“The man we were chasing,” Crispin said flatly as the import of that sank in. In frustration, he ran his hands through the feathered crest that ran down his back and between his wings.

“Exactly. The same man who gathered up those shards. He might even be the same man who attacked Nulthir and your mother.” And Thing had a bad feeling about all of this. “Until we know which side Sarn is on, we’re not asking him for anything.” Because that would be suicidal. Sarn made magic as easily as other people breathed. At least, it had seemed that way from their short acquaintance with him in the past.

Crispin folded his arms over his chest. “He’s probably an unwitting pawn in someone else’s game.”

“That’s the best-case scenario. Worst case, he’s a powerful mage. He could be the one masterminding all of this.” Thing paced, his claws clicking on stone as his mind raced to find answers. There were still too many pieces missing, but the ones he’d already found snapped together into an ugly whole.

“I don’t believe it. That would involve a heck of a lot more learning than Sarn had before. Where would he even get that? Magic is illegal, remember? He can’t just enroll in a school for mages because there aren’t any.” Crispin clicked his claws. He was right.

“But we haven’t seen him in many moons, possibly even a year or two,” Thing reminded him.

Time didn’t mean much to Thing. He didn’t pay any attention to its passage. That was a human thing. They liked to reckon days into months and years. Thing had never seen the point of that until now.

If he knew how much time had

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