Page 34 of Dark Moon Secrets

“We can start on the dark moon and use its shadow to bring out your witching abilities.”

“No. And why start when I’m eighteen and not from birth?”

“To ensure the secrets were kept from humans and also to give you time to live with them so you could better understand while keeping the balance.”

“Why didn’t my parents tell me?” I still didn’t believe any of this. In fact, I was close to reaching my limit of hearing such crap.

One thing I was planning on doing now was hiring a private detective to research my parents’ deaths. While I didn’t believe what Luna was saying, it niggled at me that they might have been murdered.

“You weren’t exactly being cooperative, now were you?”

Stabs of guilt shot through my gut. “With good reason. It’s all bullshit!”

I found myself drinking more tea, wanting to rid myself of the uncomfortable emotions surfacing from the past. The heat flowed through my body, helping me to remain calm and not explode into a rage of denial.

“It’s not, sweetie.”

“What if I click my fingers? Will a flame shoot out? I don’t think so.” I held my fingers up as if ready to click them.

“It will, but you haven’t had training. But then again, if your power is strong, you might get it on the first try.”

“You do it then.”

Luna squared her shoulders, holding the cup of tea in one hand, the other she raised, her fingers together. A simple click sounded at the movement of her fingers.

I was about to say, “See, nothing, it’s all bullshit,” but then I gasped. My hand shot to my mouth in disbelief.

A single orange flame burst into existence and fluttered from her fingertips.

“That’s not possible.” I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. “It’s some magic trick, right?”

I might have to reassess this whole witch thing. Though Luna could be a witch, it didn’t mean I was. I mean, I’d know if I was by now, wouldn’t I? You can’t live your life not knowing you can create fire. It would be such a great party trick.

“It’s possible, and it’s real.” She moved her hands, and the flame disappeared. “You try.”

I stared at her for a moment, wondering if she was for real.

“You want to know if you’re really a witch or not, then you try.”

I wasn’t one to back away from a challenge, and it wasn’t like it would work anyway. I’d do it to appease Luna, and then we could start to talk more seriously about how this shop was managed before it landed me with a debt I couldn’t escape.

I lifted my hand and moved my fingers, ready to click.

“You need to think about flames coming from the click,” said Luna. “Otherwise, it’s just an ordinary click of the fingers.”

Fine. I had nothing to lose and everything to prove this was nonsense.

I imagined flames coming from my fingers.

Then I clicked.

Flames shot out from my fingertips.

CHAPTER 14

Tanjie

Surprised by the flames between my fingers, I jumped.

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