Page 54 of Enchanted Crown
I looked to Malachi bewildered. I had seen the Enchanted of Dra Skor do so what had to be hundreds of times before, but I hadn’t the slightest clue how to go about that. Just shake my body and see what wrapped around my skin? That wasn’t terrifying at all.
“Shift?” I asked.
Malachi watched me closely. “Do you feel the need to stretch amuscle that you cannot quite get to? Somewhat like an itch you cannot reach?”
“No?” That wasn’t at all what I felt. “I feel sore. I feel like I just went through burnout. But I do not feel like there is a muscle I cannot get to. I just feel like all of them hurt.”
Malachi gave me a shrug. “You may not be able to. But if you can, we will soon know.”
“Are you going to watch me this closely the whole time?”
He didn’t hesitate. “Yes.”
I turned back to Esta.
“Hi.” She sounded a bit hoarse.
“Hi, sweetheart.” I smiled at her before I turned to Malachi. “Can you get her some water?”
He did so immediately.
“You have my Enchantment, Es,” I told her gently. “I can see it beneath your skin.”
Her eyes were barely open as she mumbled out, “Does this mean I get to send heat along your body the way you do to mine?”
I laughed. “Of all the things for you to be excited about, it’s that?”
She gave me a simple nod.
I handed her the water and moved to physically grab the book Malachi had apparently already finished and sat it on the bed. “The sooner you use my Enchantment, the easier it will be. Can you picture a strand of magic like you’ve seen of mine and visualize in your head that it wraps around this book and sends it to the table over there?”
As I explained it, her blueish purple magic beneath her skin began to burn brighter.
The result was that her eyes opened farther, and she inhaled sharply, shoving the water glass back at me after only a small drink.
“It can really tingle, but the sooner you use it, the better you will adapt,” I told her. “The better you will feel.”
She reached out her hand, her new magic concentrating and burning in the most beautiful palm I had ever seen.
I kissed where her cut was almost healed on that palm and then gestured toward the book. “Will is everything to palm magic,” I told her. “Will the magic to leave your fingertips. To wrap around the book and move it to the table. Visualize it and it will happen. Simple as that.”
She inhaled deeply, concentrating on her hand.
I stayed with her, silently willing that she would be able to do this.
And then just when I felt my own heartbeat becoming more erratic and nervous, she did it. That blueish purple left her finger, magic strands wrapping around the book. She made a swiping motion with her hand and the book went flying. Not to the table, it slapped into the wall with a thud and slid to the floor.
“Oops,” Esta whispered.
I laughed. “That was amazing.”
“I threw the book at the wall,” Esta said, resting her head on my shoulder. “That was not amazing.”
I kissed her temple. “On the contrary, I have never seen a single soul with not one, but two Enchantments. You never cease to amaze me and particularly not now.”
Her breath caught as she looked down at her hands. “I have two Enchantments?”
I was grinning. “You do. The dragon queen with dual Enchantments.”
