Well, this is freaky. As if you weren’t already in my head enough.
Luka smirked.Careful, Sweetheart.
“You guys ready?” Luce interrupted, pulling us from our silent conversation.
“As ready as we can be,” Kara responded.
Be safe, Lennox.
I will.I told him in response before disappearing into the mouth of the cave.
I brought a ball of flames to my palm, illuminating our path into the labyrinth. “If you each want, you can use my flames to create your own.”
Kara and Luce paused, each of them closing their eyes and opening their palms as embers from my fire drifted toward each of them.
“I forget how cool this is.” Kara mussed as she shifted her palm, the flames moving with it.
I flipped my braid over my shoulder. “Flames are the most badass element.”
Kara and Luce both scoffed but said nothing more. They knew better than to argue with me about my flames.
We continued down a single path, until we came to a crossing where one path diverged into three.
“Which one do you think it is?” Luce put up a hand to silence Kara and closed her eyes. I could feel Luce’s magic surrounding me and curving around the wall of the cave.
She opened her eyes. “That way.” She pointed to the path farthest to the right.
Neither of us questioned her, following Luce as we moved along the path to the right. At every intersection we came to, we followed Luce’s direction as she felt for the book.
Is everything going okay?I jumped slightly at the sound of Luka’s voice in my head.
Yeah. We’re still making our way through the labyrinth. Luce has a good feel for where we need to go.
Good.He responded.
Is there anything interesting on your end?
He chuckled. I couldn’t believe I could hear his laugh through this spell.No. Nico tried to get us to play a game. Declan and I quickly shut him down. We decided we didn’t want to draw any unnecessary attention to us if we could help it.
I’m sure he took it well, too.
He’s currently sitting on a rock pouting.
I laughed.If only I could send images through this bond.
If only.
I could picture it though—Nico sitting on a rock pouting with his chin rested on his fist like a child, his silver hair falling across his dark face.
Luce came to a halt again as we came to a crossroads, I mentally shut off my connection to Luka and focused my attention back on my cousin. This crossing had three different entrances. Luce stood assessing all three for far longer than the previous times.
“Do you know which path we need to go on?” Kara pressed.
Luce shook her head. “I can’t feel anything.” Her shoulders slumped.
I moved, intertwining my hand with hers, closing my eyes, seeing if I could sense anything—or help her sense anything. Not that I had any clue what I was looking for.
I pushed out my magic, feeling for any connection to Hecate, Astria, the book, oranything.