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Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Tuesday Travel 43: Witch Raising: The Book of Fire

Welcome to Tuesday Travel. Every Tuesday, I will be presenting an excerpt of Witch Raising: The Book of Fire, the book in which Brownie, the heroine of Demon Soul, is undertaking an initiatory journey. 

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About Witch Raising: The Book of Fire
Witch Raising is a new series with Brownie, the heroine of Demon Soul as the main character. This series is part of the House at the Crossing Series and follows Demon Soul and Demon and Fairy but instead of being centered on the adventure of Sahel and his demon friends, it follows Brownie as she goes from being a normal girl to a bad ass witch. She has been practicing magick for a while now, saving people from difficult situations but the people at the house, including Sahel aren't happy with her new calling. Feeling that she doesn't have a choice and has to keep learning witchcraft, Brownie leaves to meet other witches.

The excerpt, we start where we left off last week 

It looked a lot like the vision she had had after the spell so she had been happy when she had done the research and found this book, because it made it clear that her vision had a part of truth. She wasn't sure that the coven still existed but if they did, they were her best bet at solving her problem. She placed the two other books back in her bag, she could afford a little recreation, after all, she had days before reaching Evergreen stop and then she would have to travel through Evergreen to Erhland. She would have time to read the rest later on.
She took a cookie from Viorel's pack and started reading. As a solitary witch, the coven practices were fascinating. If she ever had someone else doing spells with her, she always had trouble to make them concentrate long enough or focus on the right think. Most people were used to Gideon just weaving his wand and getting results so they thought magic was instantaneous and required very little energy. She called it “Abracadabra pouff et voila” mind set from a sentence Antoine was using when teleporting her places. He would always say “Et voila” when they reached their destination whatever that really meant.
But then magic didn't work like that, it took time, perfecting her spell could take days and month, then she needed her ingredients and the right day, the right time in the moon cycle, there was nothing fast with magic, it took dedication and a shear amount of will power.
But having an entire coven with fifty people all turned in the same direction, with the same focus, wanting the same thing, with the exact same visualization at the exact same time. It was hard to believe it was possible, hard to believe that it could exist, that people would agree with each other that much at all time, that not even one person around would have their thoughts moving sideways. But still, it was described in many books she had read. A lot of witches preferred coven to solidary practice. Brownie wasn't sure. It was getting harder and harder for her to collaborate with people, not to get frustrated with everything and everyone. She didn't want to do thing any other different way than hers. She knew it wouldn't help but so far it had worked.
Her favorite character in the book was Azura, she was about her age and she was the one explaining everything happening. It was a bit strange though that she was there no mater the year and still seemed to be the same age. At first it had been a bit annoying but Brownie had finally gotten used to it by thinking that Azura might be a ghost or a being that didn't age or such an awesome witch that she had stopped time for herself or something. 

The train stopped at several stations on the way but there wasn't enough time to move get out of the train or do anything. The daylight had turned grey. It wasn't that later but it was Autumn, though the light inside the train hadn't kicked in yet and Brownie couldn't read any longer. She hadn't decided yet if she wanted to just take train after trains without a break to get to Erhland as soon as possible or if she wanted to see the world.
On one hand, a direct trip would take her ten days and she had never been away from Sahel or her family without another family member for so long. On the other hand maybe once everything was fixed and she didn't have to run anymore she would not leave home again. A feeling of claustrophobia set in at the thought. She had never really thought about it before but it seemed like her life had stopped somehow. Everything she ever wanted had vanished, she only reacted and she had completely lost herself and her believe in the world. Her world had been spinning out of control.

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