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“We were trying a spell.” I shot a glare at David.
The mages excused themselves and filed into Heidi’s small bedroom. It would be a tight fit for them, but it was worth trying to see if they could get through any of those back doors. We’d already wasted this much time, what was another hour? At least that’s what I was telling myself. Not that it was helping.
There was a gnawing feeling of unease that felt an awful lot like the sensation I got before I shifted. I looked around the room nervously, worried I was going to lose control. I didn’t know enough about how it all worked yet to know if I was at risk of shifting on accident. I knew that it could happen, but I thought it was mostly when you didn’t let the wolf out often.
Either way, I was restless and it felt crazy to sit here doing nothing. “We need a backup plan.”
“Agree,” David said. “There’s no way they’re going to find a back door if Madison is to be believed. I think we use the human.”
“I don’t know what you two talked about while I was away, but we are not dragging a mortal into this.” I turned to Heidi. “I love that you want to help, but entering that palace is a suicide mission.”
“Yet you’re going to do it?” Heidi said. “You’ll figure out a way to get me out. I know you will.”
“I can’t promise that,” I said.
“We need help. We need to recruit a few other demons and charge the place,” Elias said. “We can go home and get help.”
“Or we have Skylar go in with a peace offering of her human friend and distract the queen while the rest of us break in through the service doors,” David said.
“That’s your genius plan?” I asked. “Absolutely not.”
“It’ll work,” he said.
I heard the bedroom door open and we all turned to look. Shelly was walking toward us, her expression grim. She shook her head.
“You weren’t in there long,” Heidi said.
“We don’t need any more time,” Shelly said. “It’s a dead end. We have to go in through non-magical means.”
“I have an idea,” Sam said, emerging from behind Shelly. “What if we try a wide cast?”
“Of what spell?” Shelly asked.
“What’s a wide cast?” Heidi asked.
“It’s a way of casting a single spell over a large area,” I explained.
“Like the whole palace for example?” Heidi asked.
“Yes,” Sam said. “What if we try to break the hold of the stone on all the shifters present. When they break free, they’ll try to get out. They might even fight. It should cause a distraction for us and maybe give us some allies if we time it right.”
“That’s not a bad idea,” Elias said. “Can you actually pull that off?”
“It’s a challenging spell,” David added. “You think you have enough mages here?”
“We can do it,” Becca said. “We might not have the physical strength to take on a bunch of shifters, but we’ve got magic at levels that would knock your socks off.”
“What if I’m not wearing socks?” David asked.
I shot him a glare.
“It’s worth a shot,” Elias said.
“What if it doesn’t work?” I asked. “We’d have to enter without any protection.”
“If it doesn’t work, we try David’s plan,” Elias said.
“What happened to getting reinforcements?” I asked.
