Thaddeus POV
I sent Orion and Ryland down to keep Evelyn distracted. I knew if she found out Amara and I were sneaking off to find Bianca she would want to come. Once I felt she was distracted, I rang Amara’s phone letting it ring three times before hanging it up. Amara mists into the room within a few minutes of me calling. I wish I had figured out how to do that, she had been doing it since she could walk and it made hide and seek a real bitch when we were kids.
I press my finger to my lips, listening out for Evelyn. I could hear them in the kitchen. Amara holds out her hand. “She is distracted for now” she tells me and I nod to her, taking my sister's hand. The room disintegrating around me before I feel the suction of her magic zapping us into another destination which was her hippy style bedroom.
“Did you tell mum?’ I ask her sitting on the end of her bed. “No, if she comes it won't end well” Amara tells me and I nod.
“You sure you can get in there?’ I ask her and she thinks for a second.
“I know I can get us in the cell because I have seen it now, but where we end up exactly I am not sure. We could be walking into a trap, I can't see anything past coming into the cell”
“What do you mean?” I ask her.
“I mean ever since you brought me back my magic has been dwindling, like it isn't at full strength. I have been missing heaps. Sometimes I can’t even see the next day, let alone what the future holds anymore”
“You didn’t think to say anything?” I ask her a little worried.
“No, Bianca and I had been trying to figure out why, we do have a theory though” She admits.
“And what's that?” I ask her.
“Since bringing me back, my magic is stronger the closer I am to you, like my power source runs off your energy now, when your magic was gone sometimes it was impossible for me to draw magic unless I had fed or pulled energy from the elements, my own magic is no longer easy for me to draw on” I think over her words.
“I do have a question for you though, how has your mood been since having your magic back?”
“Good for the most part, the darkness tries to bleed into me but I have gotten better at forcing it away. Why?”
“When you brought me back, it used a massive boost of your power and I think some of mine may have bled into you”
“You think I stole your magic?” I ask her. Amara shakes her head.
“No, I think mine mellowed yours out like balance in a way, you didn’t take it from I can still feel it. I just sometimes struggle to draw on it, like my battery is running low”
“Maybe we can boost it again?” I tell her and she seems thoughtful for a second.
“Bianca seemed to think, maybe if I pulled on your magic and boosted yours like you did me, it would reverse it but then that would mean the darkness tainting you again” Kind of between a rock and hard place. Being Amara gets her magic back full strength, but I get the darkness back.
“Not now Thaddeus, we will figure it out. Worse case scenario my magic stays weak, I am fine with that as long as you don’t give into the darkness” She says and I nod but I feel like I have stolen from her, Amara always loved her magic and the thought of me ruining it for her upset me.
“Did you tell mum any of this?”
“No, I knew she would worry, Bianca doesn’t want mum to go to extremes trying to help me. I am fine, so it doesn't matter that much, but you know mum”
“We will figure it out,” I told her.
“So what next, this is your plan?” I tell her.
“Well I am hoping it will be straight forward, in and out”
“And if it's not?”
“That’s where you come in, devil in disguise” She says her lips tugging up.
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