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Chaos nodded. “Gotcha.”
“Soooo…” I rubbed my forehead. “You know how to make them?”
Chaos smirked. “I sure do, and Miles’s magic is perfect for it.”
“Huh? Me?” Miles looked incredibly shocked, but I had an idea of where the kid was going with this.
Chapter Twenty-Six
Miles
Why in the world would my magic be perfect?
“What do you mean?”
Chaos grinned, and now Aeson paused the show so he could pay attention to us too. The necromancer said, “If we put your calming empath magic into an artifact, we can put that artifact in the garden, and the pixies should stop pushing people around.”
I blinked. Oh.
Oh.
I hadn’t been thinking about magical solutions, which come to think of it, was absolutely stupid of me.
I was just… unused to thinking outside the box when it came to my magic.
My entire life, everyone was afraid of me, afraid of my magic, afraid of me reading their minds even when I hadn’t been able to, afraid to touch me, just… afraid.
Constantly afraid.
After high school, when the police academy had trained me up, I’d had so many rules and regulations that everything, even my magic, had felt so regimented. I’d been taught to use my magic for interrogations and interviews, and that was pretty much it.
I hadn’t been taught to think outside the box.
Not the way Chaos had obviously been.
And I’d barely even heard about this whole artifact magic thing, so even if I’d been trying to think of solutions, there was no way that would’ve ever crossed my mind.
Sure, I probably should’ve tried to calm the little things down when they attacked us earlier, but I hadn’t thought about it. I’d never been trained to use my magic like that, so… it wasn’t exactly a habit. Most of my abilities were used more innately.
“You really think we can make one strong enough to cover that whole garden?”
Chaos nodded. “I don’t think you realize how powerful you are, especially now that you have Sola.”
Hm. I… couldn’t say I hadn’t noticed the power boost she gave me, but I hadn’t realized other practitioners could tell. “You can tell that?”
He grinned. “I noticed when we worked together on the gnomes, and since you were newly bonded then, you should be even more powerful now.”
I blinked. “Oh.”
He snorted. “Yeah. Sooo… wanna give it a try?”
I nodded and sat up, leaning up off of Winter. “Definitely. What do we need?”
He got to his feet. “I have stuff in my bag. I’ll go grab it from the car. You find something we can use as the artifact. Just make sure it’s not something you care about because we’ll be leaving it at the museum.”
As he walked out of the house, Aeson hugged Clucky to himself and asked, “Do you have any broken lawn ornaments or anything like that? That could work and would be fine to stay outside for a long time.”
“Oh, that’s a good idea.” I stood and stretched. “I think I have some stuff in the shed. I’ll be right back.”
