Page 14 of Obsidian and Frost
The necromancer.
His eyes were on me and I saw recognition there.
We’d encountered one another very briefly and just at a distance during the Severance in Meforian Forest. I’d just arrived back there after saving Cassius, while Sylas had taken out Corvin Morvain and saved Kai in the process who’d been tapped out magically due to battling True Celestials for ages beforehand.
Sylas stepped toward me.
It looked like he was going to help me somehow.
Concern bled from him and he completely ignored all the fans encircling him.
And then his eyes flamed with his magic.
They darted to my hands in the next beat and I saw his own spark with his power, before he was able to quickly pull it back.
He looked confused as hell.
Was I… was I affecting him? His own magic?
What the—
I followed his gaze to see that my frost wasn’t just leaking out now, so was my shadow magic and even sparks of my purple power from my Dark Fae side.
I couldn’t… I couldn’t hold it.
That girl who’d said those mean-spirited things blocked my view of Sylas, stepping up with a definitive strut and flirting, it looked like.
I staggered back, intending to turn away, but the way I’d come was now blocked by more students who’d filtered in.
Trapped!
I really was trapped right now.
I couldn’t… I couldn’t breathe.
I saw magic-wielders in the vicinity call their power as mine went wild.
Vampires and werewolves took on rigid, fighting stances.
No. No. No.
I didn’t want to hurt anyone.
I didn’t want to become a problem.
I’d just got here. I could be kicked out or—
Hands snagged my waist, and then I was blurred out of the space, everything whizzing by around me.
I squeezed my eyes shut against the unsettling sensation.
Then I felt wind whipping around me, smelled fresh air.
The movement stopped and my combat boots touched the ground.
I opened my eyes, finding myself in some sort of alcove on campus.
I jolted as I took in who’d just sped me away from that nightmare come to life.
