Chapter ONE - Weebly

“You didn’t listen,” Anna said, walking toward him
slowly. “You didn’t…” She cocked her head to the
side and sniffed the air. A moment later, she laughed.
“Mullein!” she said, sounding delighted. “You think that
a few leaves of speller’s herb will help you stand against
me?” She shook her head, her mirth vanishing as
quickly as it had come. “You’re a fool, Kaille.”
“Tegimen!” Ethan barely even breathed the word.
“Ex verbasco evocatum!” Warding, conjured from
mullein!
The leaves and flowers in his hand melted away, like
sand in seawater, and the cobblestones beneath his feet
sang with power. He felt the warding coil up his legs
like twin snakes, wrapping itself around him, enveloping
him.
“A warding,” the girl said, as the protection reached
his waist, his midriff, his chest. “How quaint. I could kill
you where you stand, despite your spell and your herbs
and whatever else you might think to try against me.”
She leaned her head to the side, the glow of her skin
ghoulish. “But I’ll give you one more chance before I do
that.”