Sorceress
By K.L. Noone
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Lily learned magic from the last of the kingdom’s great sorcerers who disappeared a year ago, leaving her with a baby and with the responsibility of finding magical solutions for everyone’s problems. She’s overworked and exhausted, and not in the mood to have the king’s disreputable illegitimate half-brother knock on her door, demanding her help. But the king is ill, and the kingdom needs her ... and the king’s brother might not be as dreadful as the rumors say.
Will knows his own reputation: the schemes for the throne, the plots and politics, the decadence of his bedchamber, and the lovers paid off with rubies. He’s worked hard on that reputation, after all -- it ensures that he’s aware of all the Court intrigue, and can protect his kindhearted younger brother. He can’t protect his brother from a magical illness ... but he can find the last powerful magician in the kingdom and beg for her aid. And he’ll promise her anything she wants in return ...
K.L. Noone
K.L. Noone loves fantasy, romance, cats, far too sweet coffee, and happy endings! She is also the author of Port in a Storm and its upcoming sequel, available from Less Than Three Press, and numerous short romances with Ellora’s Cave and Circlet Press; her fantasy fiction has appeared in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword and Sorceress anthologies. With her Professor Hat on, she teaches college students about Shakespeare and superhero comics, and has published academic articles and essays on Neil Gaiman’s adaptations of Beowulf, Welsh mythology in modern fantasy, and Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels.
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Sorceress - K.L. Noone
Sorceress
By K.L. Noone
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Sorceress
By K.L. Noone
The knock at the door came, of course, at precisely the wrong time.
Lily had been mixing rosemary and angelica, a small blessing spell for a farm family down in the valley. The noise broke her concentration just as she whispered the final words to the small knot of herbs, infusing each phrase with a touch of her own power. Simple spells, simple magic, but even those drained her, requiring that she give of herself each time.
Sometimes she found herself thankful that her powers were not more—she could only imagine the terrible draining joy the great magicians of years past must have known—and sometimes she hated that even a momentary loss of concentration dissolved all her bindings, making the spell fall into tiny fragmented bits.
Sometimes: like now. The baby had been sleeping, the rain had been soothing against her window, and she’d been hoping for an afternoon of peace for once.
Clearly the afternoon had not been informed of this plan. Neither had her visitor, who thumped at the door again.
"Do you have to?" Lily said, and set down the crushed herbs on her workbench, and glared at the door.
The pounding redoubled; someone obviously was desperate to see her. She could hear the muffled sound of a voice calling, but the heavy wood of the door made the words indistinguishable; she supposed that if she were a better sorceress she would’ve heard them regardless.
But that annoyance was old, even as it stung; she yelled, Coming!
over Merry’s sudden screaming—the noise had woken the baby up—and yanked the door open without ceremony. What do you want?
For a minute they gazed at each other in silence; her visitor seemed thunderstruck by this abrupt collision. Lily could imagine what he saw: a sorceress with hastily thrown-on glamor, through which tangled hair and patched breeches