Snippet Saturday – Magical

It's been a while since I posted a Saturday Snippet but I'm going to try and see if I can do more of them. So Saturday's you'll get an excerpt from an available book and then you can come back on Sunday for a sneak peek into the current book I'm writing.

Since the 3rd book in my Pentacles of Magick series, Force of Magick was recently re-released, I am going to take this week's theme literally and post a snippet that showcases the a little of the magick used in this series.

Force of Magick excerpt:

"I need to get out of here." She rubbed her arms and crouched by the door, anxious.

"What's wrong, Raven?" Denn asked.

"This isn't right. Holding me here like this. I need to get away before something happens."

"Like what?"

She didn't answer right away. What could she say? An energy buzzed under her skin and she didn't know how to explain it, nor did she know what to do with it. With her magick bound some of her normal coping mechanisms were missing.

"Does this have to do with being held against your will or with what happened between the three of us?"

She just stared at him. Unseeing. She stayed back by the door, afraid to get to close. Something about being in his proximity made her crazy.

"That's it, isn't it?" He came around the desk, headed in her general direction.

"No, stay back. Don't come any closer." Panic rose within her, her heart raced, and her skin crawled.

"Raven, baby, what is it?"

"I don't know, something is happening." She couldn't breathe. She held up her hands and focused on the energy in the room. She imagined the moisture in the air and mist rained down on them.

"What the hell? How are you doing that? Your magick is bound. I did it myself."

She concentrated harder past the pain of pushing at the barrier. Deep breaths in and out and it burst. Pain shot through her body as magick filled the room. She briefly looked at the shock on Denn's face as the flood of power swamped her. She ran past Denn and out the French doors into the courtyard. The mist changed to a soft rain that her skin soaked up greedily. She tilted her face skyward, using her freed power to call more water until the rain turned into a torrential downpour, flooding the courtyard and boosting her beyond measure.

Now this is more like it.

After weeks of being trapped in a powerless body her energy and magick were back and she was free.

As the rain soaked her hair and clothes it dawned on her that whatever magick had been not only binding her magick, but also holding her in Denn's home, had been broken. She could finally leave.

Her breath halted. I can leave.

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