Chapter 337: Their Power
Chapter Three Hundred-Thirty-Seven - Their Power
Laurel noticed Sorren being quiet and mindlinked Zeldris to ask about the meaning of the words. Despite their distance, she reached him and asked him to ask Thales.
But Zeldris answered instead. "It means Power Drain. Zacht is a negative magic word like to take away, so Zena Zacht means draining power from whatever. It’s usually used with Zena, so I don’t like it."
Laurel nodded slowly and disconnected the link. So the trick was Sorren’s mother had drained her mother’s power to weaken her before killing.
That should be why her mother had seemed so weak to fight. Magic always made even the strong, to be powerless, even simple magic words.
She told this to Sorren and waited for his reaction. He still had unbelief on his face.
"Since she grew up in Damancas, it wouldn’t be strange that she learnt a little bit of magic. You heard, right? So did her sister." She said, with a little taunting in her tone.
Laurel’s ill feelings about magic rose again, but she tried to suppress it. She had a witch now, and many of her officials were from Damancas, the home of witches. She had to bear it.
Magic would be used to her own benefit. That’s what she had decided. She’d not let magic do bad to her ever again. She tapped Sorren when he seemed to be lost in thought.
"Don’t think much of it. You never know if they were some challenges she wouldn’t have survived if she didn’t learn magic, and you wouldn’t be here if she had died." She said.