The Wolf's Curse (Reapers Reborn Chronicles Book 1) by Alex Gates

Author:Alex Gates [Gates, Alex]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Alex C Gates
Published: 2023-09-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

I paced from my boarded-up window to the bathroom door, back and forth, over and over, mumbling to myself. Amanda and Andrew stood just inside the room, leaning against the closed door. They watched me, but I barely paid them any mind, lost in my furious, all-encompassing thoughts.

I understood, on a certain level, why Adria left October. It made a certain amount of sense—a parent fixing the oxygen mask over their face before fitting one over their child. You can’t truly help someone until you’ve helped yourself. That made sense to me… in theory. Though, I struggled with it.

How had Adria kicked October to the werewolves, knowing they would use her to get to us?

There had to be another escape. Adria had a lifetime of experience—over twenty years of it. She couldn’t piece together a more coherent plan than to trip someone to outrun the charging bear?

I stopped pacing and stared at the crumbling wall in front of me. Could I have done anything different to save her? Before that afternoon, I had considered my ability situational. However, Amanda had possessed me, had used her teleportation skill through me. So, with Amanda around, I could teleport. The gears in my mind churned as I calculated the possibilities.

“Amanda,” I said.

“Yeah?”

“Could we have teleported October with us?”

“What do you mean?”

“If you possessed me, and I held onto another person, and we teleported… would that person come with us? I mean, my clothes made the trek. Why wouldn’t another person?”

“What if it’s limited to inorganic material?” Andrew asked.

I furrowed my brow and cast a curious glance in his direction.

“I mean, what if teleporting only works when whatever you’re holding is nonliving?”

“Magic is energy, right?” I asked.

Both spirits looked at me as if I were the expert and they were the students.

“Okay.” I rubbed my head. “What if the more mass we teleported with, the more energy it required, causing us to teleport less of a distance? Does that make sense?”

Amanda snapped her fingers, which didn’t make any sound at all. “You might be on to something. When I teleported using your body, I couldn’t travel as far as usual. I chalked it up to human bodies can’t travel as far as ethereal ones. But, like you said, maybe it required more energy to teleport using your body. By expending the same amount of magic, we moved a lesser distance.”

“So, by proxy,” I said, “we could jump with another person, but that distance would shorten drastically.”

“It makes sense to me,” Amanda said.

“How much shorter was the distance when you teleported with me?”

“I don’t know. A few hundred yards, half of what I’m used to.”

“That’s a safe baseline to work with. If we can assume teleporting with an extra person halves our distance, we can measure any potential movement.”

The newfound, though untested, knowledge had me feeling lighter. I’m not sure how it would help us kill four werewolves, but it provided me with an edge I didn’t have two hours ago.

With a renewed sense of confidence, I returned to the kitchen.

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