Compilation Of Short Stories
The stolen Wolfsbane blooms glowed like captured amethyst stars in Anya’s satchel, each pulse a traitorous beacon in the moon-drenched, ancient gloom of the Blackwater border forest. Solstice magic crackled in the humid air, a living wire brushing against her skin, potent and dangerous enough to make her teeth ache. ‘Just enough for the antidote,’she willed, her heart a frantic drum against her ribs as she scrambled over gnarled roots slick with dew, ‘then I vanish like mist.’ The fevered, desperate face of her mentor flashed behind her eyes, the only justification for this insanity. One breath. Another. She focused on the path ahead, senses straining against the oppressive silence, thick wi