Infernal Angel
“She was trapped in a radiating cage of negative energy. Every arcane counter-measure she knew she’d used, every Reverse Hex and Repulsion Charm. Nothing worked.
I can’t get out, came the futile thought. I was sent by God to protect Cassie ... and I’ve failed. I’ve totally, utterly, falled ...
In all the thousands of years that she had lived, she’d never felt so useless.
Despairing, she looked down at her feet. The shadow of her body extended a yard or so from her feet.
Wait a second ...
She too...k a step sideways. The corridor lights from the clinic had long-since failed, all electricity severed by the Merge. But there was still sufficient light coming from a fire that sputtered out from a hellish wall to her left. It was that fire-light that projected her shadow.
She back-stepped, a little closer to the flame. It lengthened her shadow another two yards.
Now her shadow extended well past the outer boundary of the Warding strictures.
I don’t know if this will work, but it can’t hurt to try ...MoreLess
I can’t get out, came the futile thought. I was sent by God to protect Cassie ... and I’ve failed. I’ve totally, utterly, falled ...
In all the thousands of years that she had lived, she’d never felt so useless.
Despairing, she looked down at her feet. The shadow of her body extended a yard or so from her feet.
Wait a second ...
She too...k a step sideways. The corridor lights from the clinic had long-since failed, all electricity severed by the Merge. But there was still sufficient light coming from a fire that sputtered out from a hellish wall to her left. It was that fire-light that projected her shadow.
She back-stepped, a little closer to the flame. It lengthened her shadow another two yards.
Now her shadow extended well past the outer boundary of the Warding strictures.
I don’t know if this will work, but it can’t hurt to try ...MoreLess
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