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
The spell had been really
simple. She cast a circle as usual got into it, concentrated and
lit a white candle. The light had burned so high and bright, as if
the spell had been waited to be cast by her all along. She had to
focus on it and wait until the candle completely burned out to get
her answer. Her candle was supposed to burn for one hour but if
burned a lot faster than that when the flame turned to smoke, here
was her answer. A location, an image of a place and people, faces,
clothes, gestures, she had never seen before appeared very vivid in
her mind and she knew exactly where to go. But there was a long trip
to get there.
She directed herself to
platform number three and checked the number of the cars. She was
supposed to be in car five, seat 21 by the window. She had always
preferred window seats. She not only liked to look at the passing
landscape but also because she felt a lot safer in corners. It hadn't
always be the case but it was a survival reaction. With all the
demons around in her life now, not that they were all bad, Sahel and
his friends weren't, not really, at least not toward anyone in the
house or they wouldn't be able to enter it anyway.
Her compartment was
almost empty except for a family at the back with two kids arguing
with each other and the mother repeatedly telling them to stay quiet
with no result and an old man reading a news paper. Brownie was quite
happy about that. She spent her all life in a house full of kids and
it was always hard to find piece and quiet but the kids here would
probably settle down when the train started to move. At least she
didn't have a neighbor either in the seat next to her or the seat in
front of her so she could put her bag next to her.
It wasn't even five
minutes when the engine of the train started to roar. It moved soon
after and the kids did settle down. That was it, the beginning of the
journey, the point at which it was easier to move forward then to go
back. She couldn't escape the trip anymore, not that she wanted to
but the motion of the train had something final to it especially that
she didn't have a return ticket and didn't know when she would come
back.
She waited a little bit
before starting to check out what type of food Viorel had prepared
for her. She as still feeling hungry but she was sure it wasn't real
hunger, more something like stress eating and the fact that she had
been out of it and energy depleted. And for a huge part dehydrated.
There were two bottles of water in there, no wonder it had been so
heavy. She unscrewed the bottle cap of the first and drunk almost one
third in one go. She never believed people when they said sometimes
thirst felt like hunger but today, it sure did.
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