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“With a ball of light? I don’t think that’s going to help. What else can you do? Do you have wings?” She ran her hands over the back of my shirt.
I grinned. “Most Fae don’t have wings. But we do have animal forms.”
“You can turn into an animal?”
I nodded.
“Can you do it now?”
I frowned. The shield I’d created around us was too small to hide me if I transformed. If I made it any bigger, we’d begin to attract attention. Certainly, they were already searching for us.
“Now’s not the best time. It will draw too much attention. Besides, I can’t use my magic in that form.”
“So our only defense is the ball of light?” She raised her eyebrows, clearly unimpressed with my magic.
“I can do more than that.”
“Such as?”
“Well, for starters…” I dropped my human glamour. I’d only been using it for her, anyway. It didn’t work on spirits and demons. Muscles filled out my baggy clothes and the tips of my ears went from round to pointed as I stretched to my full height. Evelyn took a step backward, and I grabbed for her so she wouldn’t slip outside the shield.
“Oh.” She blinked at me. “So that’s what you really look like?”
I nodded. “And I can conjure myself places, but only if I know where I am in relation to where I’m going. I could probably carry you with me, but I’ve never tried, and I don’t know where we are, so that isn’t going to help.”
“All right. What else?” I could tell she was trying not to stare at my ears.
“I can also conjure things away, or to me. But again, only if I know where I am in relation to where the thing is going. So, I can’t get us any weapons, not that they’d do us much good against these spirits and demons.”
“How do you fight a spirit or a demon?”
“Spirits are easier. They can be harmed with iron or salt. But they can only be banished if you destroy the thing that’s holding them in this realm.”
“You mean, like a Horcrux?”
“What’s a Horcrux?”
“You’re really not human, are you? It’s from a book. The bad guy used objects to hide bits of his soul. There were seven.”
“Seven seems a bit…much. I certainly hope Edric hasn’t read this book. I’ve been looking everywhere, and I haven’t been able to find the one that’s holding him here.”
“That’s why you’ve been interested in the artifacts at Lydbury.”
“Yes. I found a dagger and a shield that both showed signs of magic, but neither anchored a life force.”
She nodded, her brow wrinkled in thought. “So, even if we find some iron or salt, we can’t get rid of Edric. What about the demons?”
“You need a special weapon. We don’t have it. Unless they have one lying around here somewhere, which probably wouldn’t be very popular, given the guest list. I think we’ll have to settle for avoiding them.”
“Is that really the best you’ve got?”
“Demons don’t have magic, at least not the same way we do. The Fae, I mean.” I paused to gauge her reaction.
She rolled her eyes at me. “Yes, I knew what you meant. Continue.”
“Right. Well, they can do a bit of glamour.”
“Is that the thing they do to hide those horns of theirs?”
