Night Fury's Wrath

Chapter 96: Change [Part 2]

-Hello, everyone! Happy Holidays and stuff! In case you didn't see my announcement on my profile, I'm working hard to fix my schedule and return to my regular update frequency. My recovery has hit a few bumps in the road, so that has thrown me off for a while. With any luck, it will continue to get better, then I'll be able to do what I love more often!

Until then, I hope you enjoy this chapter!

-NFD

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"What is this supposed to do?"

I watched Myrkr dig a shallow circle in the center of the small clearing, roughly a body-length or two in diameter. Another smaller circle had already been dug tightly around me, with four lines branching out toward the bigger one to connect them. I wanted to make it myself, but Myrkr vetoed that pretty quickly, much to my annoyance. At least we could see well under the half-moon above, finally free from its cloudy prison of several nights.

"It's for the zone," I huffed. "Make sure it's a smooth circle. No weird edges."

"Zone?"

"The safe zone for Caligo. It's gonna trap her magic so nobody can track her."

"How?"

Good question.

I shrugged, laying my head on my good paw. "I dunno." 

...Excuse me?

Myrkr shot me a confused look. "What do you mean, you don't know? Wasn't this your idea?"

I rolled my eyes. Wasn't it obvious? "The cold stuff told me this was how to do it. The moon is gonna feed the zone and make it safe."

"What cold stuff?"

"My magic!" I answered, annoyed. "The blue lights! Just keep digging."

Lunar Energy is bad for me, remember? How do you expect the moon to help me?

"Yes, I remember," I muttered under my breath. How could I not? "I'm sure it will work out. Besides, I'm supposed to have Lunar Energy in my body, but it leaves you alone, right?"

You're not wrong, but—

"Then relax! The cold stuff must know what it's talking about!"

What if it doesn't? What if this is all a mistake? I still find it hard to believe your magic communicated with you, let alone could think for itself.

"Can you think of any other option?" I challenged. "Because I can't. This is the only way to make sure you don't get stuck." If this failed, we were probably dead. If we didn't do it, we were going to die anyway. The right choice was obvious; I would rather go out trying than wait to die.

No, but—

"I'm done," Myrkr declared, shaking a paw free of clumps of dirt and grass. "What now?"

"Now," I hummed, shivering with excitement. "I do the cool part!" I sat up and slapped my good forepaw down on the circle around me. The breeze rustled the trees, but nothing else happened.

Wow. What a dazzling display from the amateur. 

I slapped my paw down a few more times, flattening the dirt somewhat. "I... I-I don't understand! Why isn't anything happening?"

"I'm not a magic-master or anything, but maybe you need to... uh... 'recharge' first?" Myrkr suggested awkwardly.

My vision blurred with tears. Why wouldn't it work? What was I doing wrong? Was I lied to? "B-But... I thought..."