Chapter 86 - Nyx

Since Gregory and Jamal are currently in this huge alpha meeting, along with the witches that they have on their side, I am finally being treated like the prisoner many of these wolves would like me to be. Meaning I’m seated in the middle of a room, in the middle of a pentagram that is anchored by the five elements: earth, air, fire, water, and metal.

Bewitched and lit candles are set at all five points of the pentagram: fire. Sea salt surrounds the pentagram in an unbroken circle: water. The chair I sit on is on a mound of soil: earth. Birds are caged in each corner of the room, two crows and two ravens to represent Hecate: air. And I am chained at ankles and wrists with iron: metal.

I’m so magically dampened that just moving to scratch my knows feels like I’m lifting a 20 pound weight. It’s draining just to sit up in this chair, pushing against the gravity that wants to force me into the earth beneath my chair. I’m covered in sweat from the exertion of it. And I have no