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“I think so.” Hazel looked at Khalisa. “I’m sure the both of us can do something to reverse this.”
Khalisa answered her, but I wasn’t listening anymore. My eyes met Leviathan’s and I felt it then, the bond. It was faint, a tiny tug in my chest. Shit, this was real.
“I’ll kill you, sweetheart,” he said, half-charming as he had been before, half-dead serious.
I was sure he would.
“I don’t think you can hurt her,” Hazel said.
I snapped my head at her. “What do you mean?”
“The bond would stop him. I felt it when it was happening. If he kills you, he’ll die too.”
My eyes became two saucers. “Does that apply to hurting too? He can’t hurt me without hurting himself?” She nodded. “And vice versa?”
“I’m not sure. I bounded him to you to get him here, not the other way around.”
Oh, that gave me an advantage, didn’t it?
I approached the circle, standing half an inch from its outer ring. “You want out of there?” He didn’t say anything so I went on. “Here’s the deal: You’ll grant my wishes, help me get my wings back and find Molraz.”
His eyes fumed. “The first time, you asked me to find your wings, not to help you get them.”
“Things changed,” I said, feeling rather smug. “Grant my wishes, help me with them, and then I’ll have my friends break the bond. The faster you help me, the faster you’ll get rid of me.” I paused for effect. “Deal?”
He paused for longer. His jaw tensed. His eyes darkened. “Deal.”
“You can let him go,” I told Hazel. She hesitated. “You said it yourself; he can’t hurt me.”
Nodding, she closed her eyes and brought her hands up. She chanted something in her witchy language. The glow of the witch’s circle shone again for a few seconds, and then it was gone. The lines had all disappeared too.
Leviathan fixed his eyes on me.
His dark claws and black eyes were back as he let out a roar and lunged at me.
I stepped back, my stomach clenching.
But he never got to me.
Leviathan stood frozen, his open claws half a foot from my throat, his eyes fuming, his teeth snapping. He struggled against the bond’s invisible magic.
I relaxed a little bit. It worked. He really couldn’t hurt me.
Sean raised his sword. “Stop!”
“He can’t hurt her,” Hazel reminded him.
“He might not be able to, but he can be a prick and scare her,” Sean said.
I stood tall. Me, scared? Oh, I wouldn’t let them see that. “There’s nothing you can do.”
He pushed against it one more time. With a deep growl, he stepped back and lowered his arms. The claws and the black eyes disappeared.
“I’ll get you for this, sweetheart,” he said with a snarl.
“As long as it’s after we find my wings and Molraz, I don’t care.” I kind of cared. My next step would be to restore my magic somehow, but that was further down the list.
“Do you think this bond can stop me?” He glared at me and Hazel before turning his back on us and walking up the stairs.
