Chapter ONE - Weebly

not sure I’d tell you if I did, but as it happens, I’ve no
idea.”
Something occurred to him in that moment, but he
kept it to himself. He would have time to satisfy his
curiosity later in the day, provided he survived this
charming interview.
“I’ve been happy to let you have the jobs involving
witchcraft,” she told him, “because until now it hasn’t
cost me much to do so. But that changed when Berson
hired you.”
“Do you know much about conjuring, Sephira?”
“I know enough to have taken your knife from you
as soon as you entered the room. You need blood, or
something of the sort, to attack me with anything more
than an elemental spell. And I know enough not to be
afraid of elemental conjurings. Those are illusion spells.
They can’t really hurt me.” Her smile this time was
fleeting, though no less icy. “How am I doing so far?”
“Fairly well,” Ethan said. “But you can’t conjure,
can you?”
By now, no answer would have surprised him. Still,
Ethan knew a moment of profound relief when Sephira