Surviving The Tempest: Tempest Tales by Elsa Sandra

Author:Elsa, Sandra [Elsa, Sandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-09-05T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Harrison’s brow creased. “That wasn’t my intent. My plan was to simply collect that spell. Jeffrey’s translocation would be a very good spell to have access to. But come here. I suppose we should check to see if I miscalculated. He leaned his forehead against mine and wrapped himself around me. Even as he accessed nullspace, I felt the energy building again, centered on the cross.”

With my arms firmly clasped around Harrison’s waist I backed away from the cross, determined not to interfere with Jeffrey a third time. Harrison emerged from nullspace and kissed me, then turned to look at his uncle standing unbalanced and pale, feet splayed around the cross.

He crossed his arms over his stomach and doubled over, gasping for air. I backed further away and Harrison strode over to him, wrapping his arms around his uncle’s waist, supporting him as his distress grew. Shaking knees turned into a shiver running through his entire body. When he looked like he was going to puke, I found a trash can and carried it over to him then quickly backed away.

“What can we do Jeffrey?” Harrison sounded worried.

“S-s-sugar.”

Little cloth sacs of hard candy had been left on the pillows when the maids cleaned the rooms, I raced into the bedroom and plucked them from the nightstand. I started across the room but Harrison waved me back so I tossed them instead. “It’s not much.”

He let go of Jeffrey with one hand and snatched the candy out of the air. Jeffrey’s tremors were subsiding. Harrison squeezed one of the pieces of candy out of the bag and placed it in his uncle’s mouth, then held a second ready while Jeffrey crunched through the first. When all the candy was gone, Jeffrey hung like a limp rag in Harrison’s arms, but his color was returning to normal.

“Put him in the bed,” I said.

Harrison put his arm under Jeffrey’s and nearly carried him to the bed. I could no longer sense any magic in use. In fact looking at him, he hardly had any magic left. Reasonably sure I could do no more harm I walked over to him and felt his forehead. Temperature seemed normal, his breathing evened out. I sank to my knees beside the bed. “Will he be all right? His talent’s nearly gone.”

“He’ll live. I don’t suppose you could call Dee?”

I saw where his mind jumped to. “We never did get the phone.”

He waved to the room phone.

I picked it up and called the front desk. It took some time but I finally figured out that Dee, Hettie, and Carol were staying in room 807. Hettie answered the phone when I called, only to inform me that Dee was out with her man. I hung up the phone and shook my head at Harrison. “She’s out with Teach.”

“Doesn’t she have a cell?”

“Yes. Sorry. Little flustered here.” I called Hettie back and explained I didn’t have my phone with the numbers programmed into it and she gave me Dee’s number.

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