Spell On Fire by Renee George

Author:Renee George
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Renee George

“Rock trolls, gargoyles, fire giants, talking gnomes.” Marigold skewered Linda with a skeptical stare. “It’s all so….”

“Crazy, unbelievable, fictional,” I supplied.

I’d sent Zev and Luanne back inside the house to give my sister space and to make sure I hadn’t done any real damage to the home with my flamethrower trick. Mostly, though, because my sister was having a hard time adjusting her view on reality. Zev was a stranger. Lu could come off as flippant, which was so not helpful right now. Keir stayed because he and Marigold had become friends before I’d met him, and she seemed less freaked out with him around. Besides, he could answer any tough questions that I couldn’t.

Marigold nodded. “Exactly.” She scrubbed her face with her palms. “And yet, I saw you light yourself on fire.”

“Sort of,” I said. However, this was a potatoes-puh-taw-toes moment, so I added, “But, yeah, I was on fire.”

“And that hot guy Zev is an…” she glanced at Keir, “…what did you call him?”

“An ifrit,” he said. “A fire djinn.”

Marigold groaned. “And Christ, Keir, we’ve been friends for a year. And you’re a druid? I mean, I knew you were into all this supernatural occult stuff because of what you teach at the college, but I didn’t know you were…” she finger quoted the next two words, “…into it.” She frowned and gave him a dark stare. “Did you con me just to get close to my sister?”

“I’ll admit that I struck up a conversation with you because of Iris,” he told her. “But I do genuinely like you.”

“Well, bonus for you,” she snapped. I could tell she was starting to come unraveled again. I handed her the paper bag just in case she began to hyperventilate.

I regretted springing this on her so suddenly as I played out in my mind a dozen other ways I could’ve told her what I was. Unfortunately, we didn’t have time.

“He needed to find me,” I told her gently as if she might break if I wasn’t careful. “If Keir hadn’t come into my life, I might already be dead.”

Marigold’s heartbreak showed through her eyes. “I’m glad then.” Although she sounded anything but glad. She glanced at Linda again, then bent over and flicked the gnome on her stony hat. Linda didn’t as much as animate a finger. “And you say this thing walks and talks.”

“And throws stuff,” I added.

Bob, who finally came outside when the yelling stopped, laid down on my foot and began tongue bathing his shoulder and side as if it were just another day.

“I feel like this is a nightmare or a fantasy,” Marigold said. “Can you show me another trick with your magic?”

“It’s better not to try again until my terra-craft comes back. The ignis-craft, my Fire magic, is brand new and unpredictable.”

“We’re outside,” Marigold said. “The worst that can happen is you lose a few shrubs.”

“The first time I tried to control Earth magic, I cracked the community pool in half from over a mile away.” I winced at the memory.

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