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His face flushes with anger. “It’s a matter of trust. We’ll stop trusting you. We’re putting our faith in you, Mia. Don’t let us down.”
“I won’t. But how can I practice my magic if I can’t call on anyone?”
“We’ll find a way,” Vanessa says as Percy continues to glare. He’s good at the glaring thing. “After all, right now our main purpose is to stop Ophelia, not make you powerful. You’ll have time to train afterward.”
True, I suppose. I glance at the vampires, then back to Percy who’s turning to go. “Wait. Any news from Ashton’s brother?”
“Not really. I overheard someone telling him that his sister was on the phone but he didn’t go get the call.”
“Next time, take the call for him. Find out what is going on.”
He nods, brows knitting together. “How can a spell make him forget what mattered to him the most?”
“It’s the nature of magic. It’s dangerous,” I say and hear an echo of my uncle’s words in my head. He was somehow right, and for the first time, I wonder how it must have felt, losing your sister to magic and inheriting a baby with magical potential. A deadly potential. What if he and my aunt had only been trying to protect me, like he said?
The mind has a nice way of smoothing over the past, I realize, erasing the hurts to keep the better bits. Maybe they had tried to protect me but they had also suffocated me and let’s not forget the beatings and the isolation.
Don’t forget, Mia, I tell myself. Don’t let yourself forget. Memory is the most powerful weapon you have against time.
One of the few weapons you have…
