Page 18 of Witch Undecided
Oh whoop-de-do. “What do I have to do?”
It was Anna who explained. “The Elites will stand around you and cast The Call. It’s a chant that penetrates your psyche and calls to the deep recesses of your subconscious, the part able to cast a spell such as a negation spell. This part of your subconscious will attempt to protect itself. It will make you want to flee, but you’ll be held in place by The Elites.”
“It feels as if someone’s tearing at your limbs, at your brain,” Jessie said with a little too much glee.
“Shut up, Jess,” Poppy snapped. Then to me, “It hurts, yes, but the key is not to fight. To let us in, to open to us. If you have the gene to carry the negation spell, then this will activate it.”
“Okay, then I have to learn the spell?”
“No and yes,” Sloane said. “The reason only a handful of witches can carry the negation spell is because only a handful carry the gene to memorize and verbalize the spell. If you have what it takes, then all I’ll have to do is whisper the chant to you and that deep part of you, the part locked away now, will claim it, and like a limb or a heartbeat, it’ll become a part of you.”
Sounded creepy and ominous, but heck, if this was the only way to keep humans safe, then so be it.
“Fine, let’s do this.”
Bring on the pain.
