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“Exactly. Since you didn’t know what you were doing, I think it was passive. You have no magic inside you, so my magic automatically spread into the area with a lower concentration of energy.”
“This sounds complicated.”
“Have you heard of diffusion?” she said. “Like osmosis and water, but... it’s not really the same thing. Nevermind.”
“I didn’t pay much attention in science class,” he said.
“I guess it’s like you’re a black hole. That sounds kind of harsh, but I don’t mean it like that.”
“Not harsh,” he said. “I kind of like it, actually. Keep going.”
“As far as I can understand it, the void is like a black hole. Except, instead of sucking in light and heat, it sucks in supernatural energy.”
“Magic.”
“Exactly,” she said.
“Why doesn’t that happen for normal people?”
“Almost everyone has small levels of magic inside them. The world has always been full of the supernatural, and the human body evolved to survive alongside it. Low levels of supernatural energy allowed people to exist in an environment filled with ambient magic and energy. Otherwise, the magical gradient would have been different and humans would have been filled with magic their bodies couldn’t handle.”
“Makes sense. I think. So I’m an exception.”
“You have no magic inside you. At all.”
“Like a black hole.”
“It’s not a perfect metaphor, but we won’t get into the details of black holes right now.”
Nick smiled. “Fine by me.”
“Do you understand what I was saying? I’m not sure if I explained it properly.”
“You did great. I don’t know how it will help to control the void, but I understand it more now than I did five minutes ago.”
“Don’t forget, it’s just a theory,” she said. “There’s a lot that we don’t know. In my research, some of the stories directly contradicted this idea, so I could be wrong.”
He shrugged. “The stories could be wrong. Rumours get twisted and stories change when people pass them on.”
“Maybe. But there could be more going on. Voids have always been rare, and the ones that inspired stories like those... They weren’t exactly willing to be studied.”
“Because they killed everyone,” Nick said.
Cara hesitated. “Yes.”
“My ancestors didn’t do me any favours, did they?”
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Chapter 39 - Cara
Cara knew it was a bad idea, but she let herself relax. The world was insane and chaotic and crazy, and it kept trying to kill them, but they both needed to blow off some steam. So she stayed in the bar with Nick, and for a while, they pretended to be normal people.
“Oh my god! Guys!”
Cara turned at the familiar voice, and she spotted Quinn in the crowd, wearing a tight black dress and pushing through a crowd of college boys. They didn’t look like they cared about the hot girl bursting through their group, and Quinn ignored them.
Cara smiled at Jackson and Julia as they followed Quinn, and the three of them approached the table where Nick and Cara sat.
