Titan Magic by Jodi Lamm

Author:Jodi Lamm
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: young adult, magic, YA, titan, Fantasy, victorian
Published: 2011-10-01T21:00:00+00:00

14: Fire

Maddy stood waist deep in Jas’ meadow. The hot wind swirled around her, laying the grass in waves at her feet. The ground itself seemed to rise and fall, panting like an overheated animal.

“Madeleine.”

She heard Jas’ voice before she saw him. Her shoulders dropped at the sound. Her body relaxed. By the time the golden footman stepped out from the shadows of the forest, she had almost completely surrendered to him, though she hated herself for it. Only the chill of her brother’s voice, still echoing through the dream, kept her aware. It was a cool breeze that cut through the heat of the Titan’s influence.

Jas stopped walking toward her and listened. “What’s this?” he said.

Maddy did not take her eyes off him. “My brother.”

“What is he doing?”

“Singing.”

“I can hear that much.” He cocked his head. “But why is he singing?”

“I couldn’t sleep. He’s telling me a story.”

“Sounds like a pleasant story,” he quipped.

“I like it.”

“You do? Why? A woman murders her husband’s son, and it sounds like the father had the boy’s corpse for supper.”

“I like it,” she repeated.

“Then your brother knows you better than I do.”

Maddy lowered her eyes. The face of the Titan broke her heart. She wished she could escape his pain because, this time, mingled with his feelings was a burning fire that ate her from the inside.

“Madeleine,” he said, “why are you afraid of me?”

Maddy kept her gazed focused on the ground, wondering how she could lie to him. She decided it was impossible. “You’re going to kill me.”

Jas shook his head. “No, I’ll do anything to save you from it. I won’t let it happen.”

“But if you fail… If I can’t be saved…” When she spoke those words, she felt the heart of the Titan stutter in her own chest.

“I won’t let it happen,” was all he could say.

Maddy’s muscles tensed with his. The Titan’s feelings said more to her than he could ever hope to say with words. He wanted to pull her away, snatch her from the real world and retreat into another. He wanted to save her. He wanted to keep her all to himself. He wanted…

“I can’t trust you. I don’t know you.” She closed her eyes, knowing how much what she was about to say would hurt them both. “I want to free myself from you.” Her stomach turned at her own words.

“If you do, you’ll drown,” he said.

“I’ll learn to swim.”

“You’ll drown.”

Maddy struggled to keep steady on the rolling earth. She didn’t want to ask Jas to help her stand. She didn’t want to rely on him for anything at all. “I’m tired of being afraid all the time,” she said. “I need to face my chaos.”

“But you don’t even know why it scares you. It isn’t the ocean you’ll face, in the end. Drowning is only a representation of what first created the chaos in you.”

“Then I’ll have to find out what created it.”

Jas ground his teeth. “Don’t.”

“I have to. I want to remember.”

He rushed in and shook her by the shoulders.

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