Page 146 of Bruised MC Bear
“I was, but I had to come and find out what the hell is going on here. Where did that surge of magic come from?”
“I was practicing. I used telekinesis on the ravagers. It worked!”
“How long ago?”
“Just before we—” Kiera started, then she stopped short. “Perhaps half an hour ago.”
Coco shook her head. “No. Not then. It was before that. Plus I sensed you outside the fortress when I felt it.”
Kiera looked at her familiar with confused. “Outside? I did not perform any magic out there.”
“There was no mistaking it, Kiera. It augmented our powers. I felt it. You did too. It affected you physically…made you stumble.”
“It had to be Liam,” Xander said to Kiera. “When he shook your hand. Though… it can’t be. He is not a witch.”
“But…how?”
“Someone may have put a spell on him,” Coco suggested. “I know how to determine who or what it was, but we have to do it right now. Minassus will be back at the fortress in a few hours. He was visiting his mother’s home village, but he’s on his way back now, which is another reason I hurried to get here before him.”
“You know, you could have led with that information,” Xander said to Coco, clearly irked.
“I guess I could,” she replied, detached. “You’d better go now.”
He shook his head and turned to Kiera. “Be careful.”
“We will,” Coco answered for both of them.
As he turned to leave the way he came, Kiera had a hard time shaking the feeling that Xander also needed to take his own advice.
