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“Please.” Mom gulped out the word and I was propelled forward by my own powers.
I lifted my arm and reached out for her, my fingers straining to meet hers as if of their own volition.
When our hands connected, I was thrown into a world I’d long since stopped allowing myself to enter.
I threw back my head and my eyes slid closed as I stood up straight and held out both hands for my mother’s magic transfer.
There was my future, flashing before my eyes.
A woman. With red, curly hair. The flames of desire and passion whirling in her eyes.
The image shifted, and real flames surrounded her. There was a child in her arms. Then the flames were gone. She dropped to her knees, begging me for help. I stood over her. Shaking my head.
Despite the fact I couldn’t hear any words, I knew what she wanted. She needed me. My magic. And I was refusing to give in to her pleas. I wouldn’t use my magic to help her, or anyone. Not even my own child.
I gasped and pulled my hands from my mother’s grasp, not wanting to see anymore.
“No. No. No.” I repeated the word over and over, reeling back. “No more.”
I panted, unable to catch my breath. My magic pulsed inside of me and I couldn’t push it down, no matter how hard I tried. “Mom. What did you do?”
“I didn’t do anything.” She sounded much calmer than she had a right to be. “I only shared my vision with you.”
I staggered further away from her, toward the doors that led out into the hallway. “I... no.”
I needed to fly, to bring out my dragon shifter. He would push away my magic. Burn it away. He always had before.
“Anthony. Where are you going?” Mom called out behind me but I kept going, staggering down the hallway, dragging my left foot that for some reason didn’t seem to want to work.
Finally, I made it to the balcony doors, and there I stopped to strip off my clothes. I was in my working clothes, so my sweater and shirt, then jeans, soon hit the ground.
“Anthony!” My mother’s voice was getting closer now as she rushed after me.
I didn’t want to deal with her. Not now. I’d trusted her when she asked me to, and now I was verging on the edge of losing control.
I grabbed for the door handle and pushed it open. The cold air of winter hit me in the face and I stumbled out into the snow.
The Black Mountains were cold, but nothing like the North Kingdom. The Winter Palace.
With thoughts of heading to my friend Stavrok in my mind, I let my dragon shifter take over my quickly freezing body.
My wings extended from my back, my skin shifting into scales and rock-hard muscles. I closed my eyes, enjoying the rush of power and strength that my dragon gave me.
I extended my wings and stepped up onto the balustrade, launching up into the wind just as my mother pushed open the door and shouted at me.
“You need to act now, Anthony. There’s no time.”
But I wasn’t listening to her. Not today.
I flew high, away from the kingdom of the Black Mountains and toward the North. Toward the Winter Palace. Away from my mother and her magic.
If only I could get away from mine as easily.
