Post by StoryGirl83 on Jun 26, 2011 23:48:41 GMT -5
Chapter Twenty-Three – A Spell to Make a Map
Dark orbs swirled around the room and Aka reappeared. In her arms was a small stack of paper and a pencil was tucked behind her ear. She sat the papers down on top of the map Brianna had been scrying with. “It is difficult,” Aka commented, “to get your average witch to talk to a darklighter.”
Brianna snorted. “Someone from my coven?”
Aka nodded. “And I wouldn’t have even gotten that far with them except Daemon was their playing basketball and he recognized me.”
Brianna smiled fondly. “But what were you doing there? That’s not where CT sent you.”
“No,” Aka agreed, “but it’s where his dad sent me.” She pointed a finger at the papers and pulled out the pencil. “Cast that spell on me.”
Brianna raised an eyebrow and examined the spell. She frowned and looked up. “What’s it do?”
“It allows someone to be able to draw a map of any part of the underworld that they’ve seen.”
Brianna’s frown grew as she shook her head. “Then, you are about the last one I would cast this spell on. Of all of us, you have probably seen the least amount of the underworld, myself included.”
Aka shook her head. “You’re wrong you know. I’ve spent a lot of time down there trying to figure out my power. How better to learn to identify darkness levels and colors then to spend time in some place that only has dark colors?” She smirked a little as she added. “Except it’s not all darkness down there. I guess I’m not the only one with reason to go down there other than evil intent. And you’d be surprised at some of the dark colors I saw, things you would never think of as evil.” She shrugged. “The point is that I have seen a large amount of the underworld.”
“Max is probably our best bet though,” Toby commented, “seeing as he didn’t even leave the underworld until he was thirteen.” He walked over to the table. “If you don’t mind I’ll take this stuff to Max and CT. CT can cast the spell, I guess.”
“Have you ever seen him cast a spell?” Aka asked, sounding amused.
Toby nodded. “Sure. I’ve never seen him write one, but I have seen his cast spells written by others. It’s not like it’s hard to cast a spell so long as you are a witch or warlock and he’s definitely a witch, for all that we almost never see evidence of it.”
“Is she really that bad?” Aka asked, softly.
Toby shook his head. “I don’t think even CT thinks that. He’s never been able to confront her about it, so the hurt is pretty deep, but I think he intellectually understands what she did.”
“She who?” Wyatt asked, confused.
Toby looked at him startled, clearly having forgotten that he was there.
“Did a witch hurt your friend?” Wyatt looked at them both. He saw that Brianna was trying hard to ignore all of them by studying the spell.
Toby frowned and blew out a breath. “I’m not really supposed to talk about it. It happened a long time ago and isn’t really relevant to what’s going on right now.”
“Except because of it your friend won’t use his witch powers,” Wyatt returned.
Toby shook his head. “I don’t think his witch powers would be much use in a battle and if things stay on this track, we aren’t going to have a battle anyway. You can’t have a battle if you can’t find the enemy. And he’ll cast this spell on Max, because he’ll know what will happen if he doesn’t.”
Wyatt raised an eyebrow. “Oh? What will happen if he doesn’t cast it?”
Toby glanced at Brianna. “Brianna will cast it.”
Wyatt frowned. The answer didn’t make sense. Remembering the conversation earlier, he wondered if maybe it did.