Chapter Twenty-Two: Syrra

"So, are you going to tell me exactly what has happened over the past few days? Or am I going to have to guess?" Lyza suddenly asks, looking quite irritated.

I fold my hands in my lap with a sheepish smile. "Right, okay. So, when Kaine left to come here, I went to visit my cousin. She helped me reverse the fertility spell and put Peter's soul in a vial."

"Where is the vial?"

"Kaine has it."

"What else?"

My eyebrows shoot up in surprise. I thought she would be upset but she looks happy—no . . . relieved. "Uh well my cousin has been exiled for several years now. But before that she cursed me."

Lyza frowns. "She cursed you?" She repeats carefully.

I nod. "Well we really only call it a curse because it's a particularly harmful and debilitating spell. It diminished my power significantly but unfortunately I exiled the one person that knew how to remove it," I sigh.

"Yeah karma's a bitch that way," she remark