We Three Mages (Editing)

Chapter Thirty Two: A Trip Into History

“Here? Really?” Calvin glanced around the clearing the Legend Holders had found. “It’s like you’re inviting your enemies to ambush you.”

“It’s a place with the cleanest magic in the air we can find.” Mari explained. “Magic isn’t just with humans. Magic is found in the air we breathe, in ground, in trees, and in animals. Here, it’s untainted ground.”

“Untainted how? No one’s taken a leak here?”

“No, no soldier or ill man has stepped foot on these grounds.” Jared said. “Which will make it easier for what we’re about to do.”

“I still don’t like it. Leaving you three totally exposed like this.” Ross had rejected the idea as soon as the three of them brought it up.

“We won’t be totally e-exposed. Calvin w-will set up a barrier around us.” Nadia said.

“That’s all well and good, but it won’t do any good should we get attacked out here.” But no matter what Ross said, the three were still going to do it. They were still going to take advantage of the small meadow and dive further into their Legends.

“The tall grass will keep us covered when we sit down.” Mari gestured to how the grass was well up to her waist. “And we trust you three to keep us safe.”

“H-Here’s the center.” Nadia waved Jared and Mari over. The two walked over and summoned their robes.

“Been awhile since we had these on.” Jared looked down. “Feels like I’m saying hi to an old friend.”

“Does feel good to have these back on.” Mari agreed.

“Shall we s-start?” Nadia sat down. Jared sat to the left her and Mari to the right. The three formed a close nit circle with their knees connected.

“Ready?” Jared looked at the girls. They both nodded and placed their Legends in front of them. It was as if their Books sensed what the three were attempting because a soft, warm glow began to radiate from them, the same glow from back at the Central Library.

“I think the Books are.” Mari watched in awe. Each took their right head and placed it on the cover of their respective book. As soon as all three made contact, an incredible thing happened. It was like they had been wired into the magic flow of the world. They could see the magic in the air, in the grass, steadily moving at a sluggish place since it had nowhere to go. It was a whole other world hidden within their own, a secret, reclusive world that only the Legend and its holders were allowed to view.

Jared, Nadia, and Mari could also see not only each other’s magic flow, they could see their own and it was the same flow imprinted on their Legends. It looked like a hundred green snakes were swimming around Nadia, curling and uncurling as they went in all sorts of different directions around here, never colliding.  Around Mari, red and black vines grew out of nothing, stretched off in different, sharp directions and then just disappeared. But soon, another would take the place of the one that had shriveled and take a new path all together. And Jared’s flow was blue swirls that danced about on a transparent white canvas. Each swirl had a mind of its own and would run into another swirl without a second thought; the collision between two or more swirls resulted in a mini firework like explosion

“Beautiful.” Was the only word Mari could manage as she watched.

“We can’t keep th-the others waiting.” Nadia reminded her. “Let’s do what w-we talked about.”

“On three.” Jared breathed out. “Three!” and the three of them channeled their own magic in the Books instead of the other way around.