Blood Moon Pt. 12

Rea sat down on the end of her bed with a sigh. This was it, she was going to die. The idea didn’t bother her nearly as much as it should. For decades she had waited for her body to age, for her powers to wane but she stood frozen as the world moved around her. She missed her family and was looking forward to seeing them once more. She just had to figure out a way to keep the others safe in the process.

She didn’t ask what Mag had discussed with the others but it had rattled Ryan. He had reached for her briefly in the lobby but turned away without another word. Rea wasn’t sure what to think about the handsome vampire but she didn’t have time for that. Perhaps if she managed a miracle and survived then she’d spare a thought for him.

For a moment she considered contacting her coven. If she was going to face such a powerful mage she would have preferred to do it standing side by side with some of the world’s strongest practitioners. Instead she had three werewolves and two White Court vampires. It’s a good thing that Rea didn’t gamble because her luck sucked.

“Maybe I can track him...” she mused then shook her head. In a city this large it was impossible to track someone’s aura. There was too much interference and she would be wandering around for days while more people died in the process.

Blind Mag said that the Shadowman would make himself known to her and that didn’t sit well with Rea. She could pull off some powerful magic on the fly but when she had time to prepare she was a force to be reckoned with. Of course if this mage had been following her for decades he would know that.

Damn.

“Come on...think...” Rea tried to piece together as much about the Shadowman as she could. He had sold his soul in order to gain revenge for something that her parents did and he preferred to kill using air magic.

It wasn’t much but it was a start. The witch bounced her knee, a habit her papa had failed to break in her, as she thought. Air magic was difficult to counter. Rea typically used fire magic, a simple acceleration of particles to produce heat or light. Fire magic was nearly useless against air magic because they countered each other. Air fueled the fire and fire superheated the air. The same went for earth and water magic, they each were canceled out by air. There’s a reason why those are the four main elements of magic, you know, they balance so perfectly that it hurts.

Rea’s thoughts were racing as she let her head sink into her hands. A blinding headache pounded behind her eyes and she knew that she should sleep but there was no way that she would rest in this state. She toyed with the amulet at her neck, a gift from her mother, as she tried to find a solution. “I wish you were here, mamma, I sure could use some help. They’re going to die and it’s all my fault.”