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

security of knowing that no gun made by humans could pierce it.

                So I can be a clueless dolt without as many consequences!

                I had taken to jogging along the trails recently. I just had so much energy, it almost drove me crazy to walk sometimes. I had worried about a steep curve, but my Sorceress energy meant that I ran for a couple of hours every morning without any aching muscles the next day.

                I could circle the entire property in a morning, while still giving our mysterious lake a wide berth. I felt like I was going to have to face the lake sooner rather than later, however.

                I soon came out behind the playground, behind a large oak tree. I stopped and listened. Soon enough, I heard it.

                “Stop!” a tiny voice said, “You’re hurting me!”

                “Aw, am I hurting the widdle baby?” a cruel, though not much older, voice said back. “Are you gonna cryyy?”

                Fucking bullies.

                I looked, and soon spied the source of the voices on the far side of the playground. There were two larger boys holding a smaller boy down, and the smaller one was struggling.

                I smiled and reached out with my mind. "Let's get something… special for these boys.

                I soon saw the first boy swing wildly around him, and then the second. They both started to furiously wave their arms even more, rolling on the ground. They soon stood up and ran away, their panicked cries turning to yelps of pain.

                The bullied boy ran away from the hornet attack. I just smiled.

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                “That lake is going to need to be dealt with." I said, walking into Jack's room and sitting down at his desk.

                “Soon?” he asked, barely looking up from his typing.

                “Sooner now than later.” I replied, opening my pouch that I kept under my clothes.

                “So what do you want me to do about it?” he said, bored.

                “Fucking nothing.” I said, pulling out a joint. “That’s why I came down here first. If I wanted to do something right away, I’d go and find Vincent.” I lit the joint and took a deep hit. “Right now I want to burn one with one of my besties before stirring up another hornet’s nest of activity.”

                “Well in that case… “ he said, pulling out his own joint.

                “So,” I said, exhaling, “How’s it going with Katsu?”

                “Dude… “ he exhaled next, laughing. “Way too fucking good, man.”

                “No shit?”

                “No shit.”

                “So you love her?” I asked through the increasing fog.

                “I do.” he said, grinning. “I mean, dude… she knows everything about me that you or Rinny know, and has seen my o-face.” he continued. “And she keeps making it happen, which proves that it isn’t a deal-breaker. If I don’t fall in love with her on those facts alone, there’d be something wrong with me. The fact that she’s someone who only a fool wouldn’t fall in love with is the icing on the cake.”

                “That’s so cool.” I said, smiling. “I’m happy for you, bro.”

                “So did you and Vincent successfully bore that hole through the headboard last night?” he continued, taking another hit.

                “We weren’t that loud last night!” I said, somewhat surprised. “Besides, you’re down here… how would you have even heard it?”

                “I heard you on the video monitors.” he said. “The ones on the floor beneath you.”

                I felt my cheeks flush. “You don’t suppose… “

                “Oh, Katsu heard you guys, too.” he said, nodding.

                “Oh Gods!” I wanted to hide behind my hair, I was so embarrassed!

                “Don’t sweat it, I’d like to thank you!” he replied, grinning. “Katsu heard you come… very, very loudly… and she took it as a challenge. I slept until noon just to recover!”

                “Well, as long as you had a legendary night.” I said, and re-lit the joint.

                “I did!” He looked around for an ashtray. “So, how close have you come to sleeping with someone else?”

                I dropped my lighter. “What?” I asked, too shocked for words.

                “Look, I know you’ve been horn-dog ever since you’ve become Sorceress,” he said, exhaling, “but the fury that you’ve been fucking Vincent with lately has been beyond pleasure seeking. It’s damn near ‘blot out something I did or thought about doing’ levels of obsession.” Jack looked right at me. “Like with Roxanne.”

                I wanted to wince, the memory of Jack’s first real girlfriend still painful for all who helped him through it. Roxanne, who took his virginity… and then took his innocence by cheating on him.

                “I remember thinking I was quite the stud muffin.” he continued. “I mean, she couldn’t keep her hands off of me for one, two, three weeks? I thought that I had, I don’t know, awakened her sexuality or something. Turns out that she was just feeling guilty because she’d fucked my lab partner on my family’s pool table while I was making us all pizza rolls.”

                “I remember.” I said. Fuck it! I thought, and lit a fresh joint. “It’s not like that… at least, not yet.

                So I told him everything… the past life experiences with Angelique, how it seemed to be that she spent much of the past sixteen hundred years seeking me out in every incarnation in the hopes of rekindling our past sexual relationship, the works. I even told him about the experiences I had as a man making love to her in the past.

                “Woah.” he said, putting his joint down. “So, what does it mean for, like, now?”

                “And that is the fifty-four thousand dollar question!" I said, pointing at him. "And it's usually where my brain says 'WHOA, BREAK TIME!'" I said, holding up a hand. "I just, I can't even right now, you know?”

                “Yeah.” he said. “And Angelique has this patience that’s literally preternatural, so it’s not like she’s really going to push, so you have that.”

                “So,” I said,