Riley POV
Liam left me with the four siblings and Brandon, and I felt like a teenager no longer grounded.
"Here, this is something." Barry said, turning his book towards me.
A naked woman was in a blinding white light with a large belly lifted in the air. Her mouth opened wide, like she was screaming, and red blood dripped from her eyes.
"That looks scary as hell, Barry. I'm not doing whatever that is." My body shuddered imaging myself wrapped in magic like that.
A flash of my nightmare came back to me and tears filled my eyes. Why did I dream of being a small child tied to an alter while Mildred burned me with white light? Was it actually a memory? Was that the night my supernatural spirit was torn from me?
"You ok?" Brandon's hand came to my arm in comfort. I shook the memories from my head and tried concentrating on the book.
"Yeah, sorry. I zoned out a moment."
Brandon pointed to the book again. "It says that magic can be given to humans temporarily to strengthen their spirit
