The Witch: Book Two of The Sorceress Saga by Taliesin Govannon (top 10 novels of all time .txt) 📗

into the distance, watching as the sun sank beneath the horizon. “You and Gaia could probably stop by." she said, breaking the silence. "I know that greenie has a sexual past with the sisters three, anyway."

                "Part of me's tempted, but a bigger part is 'Nah, it would be too weird', you know?" I said. “I mean, most of my reasons not to disappeared when I realized that I was both queer and poly, but… it’s too soon.”

                Raina looked surprised that I wasn't shutting the door permanently like I had with Jack. That one was mutual, however.

                “I’ll take that rain-check!” she said with a wink.

                “Oh, you smooth talker, you.” I said, shaking my head. “You think you’re all that and a bag of chips, do you?”

                “Annabelle, honey, I am all that, a bag of chips, and a large cherry coke!" Raina said with an exaggerated swagger.

                I couldn’t help it, I had to laugh.

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The Queen

The Sorceress Saga Book Three

Chapter One

                “Notify Queen Aleena that… “

                A blast of green energy sent the sentry’s body flying across the clearing in pieces, cutting him off, as I landed in the middle of it. The other two sentries that he had been talking to froze for a minute, which was all I needed.

                “Sorry to interrupt guys!” I said, sending green bolts out with both hands. They hit their target, the sentries disappeared in a hail of dried mud, and I was temporarily alone.

                Queen Aleena, huh? I thought. I’ll have to remember that.

                We had spent the past couple of months both trying to figure out who was attacking me, as well as collecting magickal objects that might help in battling said mystery foe. We were currently on one of the latter efforts, attempting to penetrate the stronghold of Percisos et Elephantus, an ancient magickal order that lived on the unsavory side of paranormal society. We had thought that it would be unguarded on the outside, but had run across some kind of sentry force made up of golems.

                Of course, golems are real I thought. Why not? Every other classic film monster had turned out to be real, why not animated clay statues? Granted, most golem films were from the silent era, but that’s what you get when you fill a mansion with geeks.

                As usual, the golems that we were facing hardly resembled their counterparts from Jewish folklore.  The spells that animated these creatures came from magick thousands of years older than any Western religion, Judaism included.

                Two more golems emerged from the surrounding forest ahead of me, carrying the large clubs that I had been dodging since we arrived. I was about to deal with them when one exploded into pieces. I recovered quickly from the surprise and sent the other one back to the earth with a well-placed blast of my own. I turned and saw Raina step out of the forest to my left.

                “Nice shot.” I said.

                “Thank you.” she replied. “I’m glad this isn’t a Pottery Barn,” she added, “because I’d hate to see the bill for this much-destroyed inventory!"

                “As soon as we find out who’s attacking us,” I said with a grin, “then we’ll send him the bill.”

                “Sounds like a plan.” Raina said, and we continued our approach to the mountain fortress.

                One bit of information that had surprised me was just how many mountain fortresses existed in the world. I knew about the ones ran by Tiffany’s Uncle Jexo, but those were just a few out of a multitude.

                Does every single mystical organization or powerful paranormal figure have a mountain stronghold somewhere? I wondered. I hadn’t even heard of ‘Percisos whatever’ before this week, even though they’d been around for centuries. And yet, here we are.

                I was beginning to think that I was the only magickal figure that didn’t have some kind of impenetrable mountain fortress. Of course, Angelique and Vincent probably own something similar somewhere. I wonder if even they know everything that they own these days.

                A little over a year out from getting my powers as the Sorceress, and I was finally getting a handle on things. It was kind of amazing that I was doing this well because relationship drama had occupied my mind for much of the first year. I had started out the year with a vampire boyfriend and ended it with a vampire and a Fae girlfriend, as well as said undead boyfriend.

                I looked over to Raina, one of my best friends since grade school, as she fired a bolt off to destroy one of the video cameras that we were surprised to see when we got there.

                She’s doing so good at her Fae magick! I thought. Ever since she had implanted a Fae crystal, the way that humans could wield Fae magick, into her right hand, she had been getting better and better. The extensive time she had spent practicing while visiting her then Fae girlfriend… now ex-girlfriend… in the Fae realm certainly helped. Time doesn’t really exist in those places, and a year there can easily go by in the wink of an eye in the regular world.

                Another golem lumbered out of the forest, and it was also destroyed before I could do it. Behind where it had been stood Gaia, her green skin flushed from battle.

                Speaking of Fae…

                I had never expected to fall in love with a Fae. I hadn’t expected to fall in romantic love with more than one person to begin with, actually, let alone a person from a magickal race that I didn’t know existed for most of my life. We had known and loved each other in past lives, however, and I was finding that the ties that I had formed in past incarnations still had a pull on the present.

                It feels just as natural to be with her as