Unveiling Magic by Chloe Garner

Author:Chloe Garner [Garner, Chloe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: A Horse Called Alpha
Published: 2019-12-15T16:00:00+00:00

“No,” Sasha said from the floor. “No. It was supposed to just be because I was paranoid.”

Valerie shook her head.

“Go fast. I’m going to figure out how to get us out of here.”

Sasha stood, looking around the room once with a sense of despair, then walked away, headed for the bedroom. Valerie could hear her stuffing things into the plastic bag, and Valerie slid off of the couch to look at what she had to work with, again.

Weapon?

Or diversion?

Her mother had killed the last two men that Valerie had attacked. Valerie hadn’t had the stomach for killing them, and she still remembered how she’d felt when she’d thought she’d been the one who had taken their lives.

She couldn’t do that again.

She couldn’t.

She wouldn’t.

So she needed something to distract them or convince them that she and Sasha weren’t where they were.

How did she do that?

How had her father done it, when he’d come to rescue her?

She couldn’t do that.

Whatever it was he’d done, she couldn’t do that.

It was dangerous and it was hard, and…

No.

She needed a different plan.

Sasha was packing fast, and the magic outside of the doorway indicated that there were people casting… Scouting magic. It was the only word for it. It was like a giant hound was snuffling up Valerie’s magic and figuring out what it was, and for a moment Valerie worried that she’d attracted them by casting outside of the apartment, but - no - they’d gotten here too quickly. They’d already been on their way and it was only Sasha’s fear that had saved them from being surprised and ambushed.

Valerie needed to respect that more.

Her hands were working.

She wasn’t sure yet what they were up to, but they were working, and that was calming.

She was assembling magic… volatile magic. Smoke and confusion and noise and… violence. There was violence in there.

Heat.

She liked heat magic, it turned out.

Explosion.

Not enough to cook someone - the variety of casting ingredients that were here wasn’t quite broad enough to do that - but enough power to knock them back.

Sound.

Sound-deadening.

She was going to make them deaf.

Not permanently, she didn’t think, but…

For a few minutes.

At least.

They would have defenses.

It was possible it wouldn’t work at all, though Valerie had never seen one of her casts fail…

She actually paused, sitting back on her heels to reflect on that. She’d never failed a cast. Mr. Jamison was right - there were kids in her class who were still trying to get casts to work consistently, and she whined about how far behind she was.

And here she was, building a defense bomb that was going to get them out of the apartment safe and alive.

While the bomb was setting and cooking and becoming as potent as it was going to be in the time she was going to get, she set to work on a pair of poultices. She knew intuitively what they were, but she didn’t know specifically until they were almost done and Sasha was sitting on the floor in front of her again.

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