Chapter 15: Worries & Snow
Whether it was day or night, the light inside the flat remained the same with the only hint of time passing being the scrapes and thuds of people waking up and getting about their day. It was still early, but not unreasonably so and by all accounts Misha should have fallen right to sleep, except he hadn’t.
There were two reasons for this, though which was the bigger one, he could not be sure.
One reason was, of course, the revelation and subsequent explanation of what had transpired with the little girl.
To make a long story short, the girl had, completely unconsciously, created a Coil out of fear then gotten stuck in it since she hadn’t meant to make one in the first place, and likely had no idea what was going on. That scary environment and inability to leave had scared her even more, further reinforcing the inscription.
Finally, when Misha found her, she was so terrified to see a dragon that she accidentally cast a second spell, one to bewitch someone in range to take her away from the danger, to help her escape. As Amethyst was the only human looking creature at the time, she was the one that got hit by it. Then when Bran stabbed her through, that broke the spell, bringing her back to her senses.
And as for the power source for all this spell casting, Misha had been horrified to learn that it had been the girl herself.
"Bran, can all humans accidentally use magic like that, or...?"
And here was the other reason for Misha’s insomnia was that while he was indeed in bed, he was not alone. Amethyst, still recovering from the blow Bran had dealt her, was sleeping in Misha’s usual bed while Misha himself was sharing a bed... with Bran.
Something that hadn’t been righted after turning back into a human was Misha’s desire to be touched by those hands in this form too, but he tried not to think about it. He was probably just too jetlagged.
"It’s how you imagine," Bran replied, seemingly completely unbothered by sharing a bed with Misha. "Anyone can carve inscriptions or write them out on the right medium then connect up a power source, but only certain bloodlines can skip all that and do it innately or accidentally."
"Like how a dragon can transform if they get angry or scared?"