Page 18 of Enchanted Heir
“Jorah?” Owen asked alarmed, turning toward me.
I couldn’t believe it.
“Jorah?” Owen reached for his sword and his magic was immediately glowing in his veins.
Oh.Considering we’d been attacked in this forest, he was going to assume the absolute worst. That was the soldier in him. I reached a hand out to stop him and still his magic. “Look.”
I pointed to the lake. It was still just as black as ever, but on the ground near where I stood when I cut my hand and held it over the lake, one lone small white flower bloomed.
Owen’s eyebrows furrowed together.
I grinned. “It’s alive. The forest is still alive.”
“Is that where you stood? When you put your blood into the lake?”
I nodded. I’d been walking with Keir one day and had the idea to try to put my blood into the lake to heal it. It hadn’t done a thing. Yet maybe it had?
He shook his head and pressed his fingers to his eyes. “Am I seeing things right now?”
I picked up my now empty cup off the ground and approached the flower. “No, you aren’t.”
“I haven’t seen new growth in this forest in years, Jorah. This is impossible.”
My eyes went huge. “It’s the ground, not the lake. My blood did nothing to the lake, but it healed the ground!”
I was so excited I wanted to jump up and down and clap. “Hand me a knife.”
He shook his head. “I am not letting you bleed all over, Jorah.”
“Just a few drops,” I told him. “Let’s test my theory.”
Owen shushed me. He actually shushed me. “If your blood truly didthat, we need to find Krew and Keir and you also need to start talking more quietly. No one, and I meanno onecan know about this Jorah. You have no idea how desperate some of the Enchanted have been to fix the forest over the years. I wouldn’t put it past them to spill all of your blood on this ground just to see what would happen.”
So he had a point.
“Okay, let’s go get them.”
“They’re together. We were supposed to have a meeting this morning that I am probably already late for,” he offered while putting an arm out in the direction of the castle.
I began walking with him. “Why didn’t you tell me? I wouldn’t have minded. In fact, I gladly would’ve just gone back to bed.”
He shrugged. “I was distracted. Plus, I figured if they had to wait a little bit for me, they might just talk out some of their issues.”
“It’s me,” I offered. “I’m their issue.”
“More like the way Keir treated you. And the fact that Krew likes his space and now has none.”
I winced. “So pretty much me.”
Owen put a hand on my shoulder. “It’s actually good for him if you ask me. He’s been alone for far too long.”
I thought of the shape his magic took on. A wolf. Weren’t wolves supposed to live in packs? Even Rafe had a pack.
By the time we got upstairs, I was overflowing with excitement. I had made a flower bloom in an otherwise dead forest. Well, my blood had. Which was a bit creepy, but also remarkable.
Unable to keep from telling them a moment longer, I burst through the door to Krew’s wing. His bedroom and adjoining sitting room were empty, so they must have been in the other one.
Grinning, I turned the corner and found Krew and Keir glaring at one another.
