Advanced Power Transference: Ember Academy for Magical Beings, #6

By L.C. Mawson

Someone you're magically bonded to getting executed probably isn't healthy...

 

With a new, short deadline on Xiatyan's execution, I'm left with no new ideas for how to save him.

If I don't figure out how to save him soon, all of my bonded will be in danger, but I have no idea where to start...

ADVANCED POWER TRANSFERENCE is the sixth and final book in the Ember Academy for Magical Beings New Adult slow-burn Reverse Harem Urban Fantasy Academy series. If you love sarcastic, bisexual heroines; dragon-related mysteries; and magical universities, you'll love this latest fast-paced series in L.C. Mawson's Snowverse.

• Language: English
• Publisher: L.C. Mawson
• Release date: Dec 31, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201066499

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Chapter One

Itook a deep breath as I arrived in the ruins of Xiatyan’s prison.

I should have been to see him as soon as I’d left the Dragon City, I knew that, but every time I fell asleep, my stomach twisted with nausea and when sleep finally took me, it was dreamless.

I had control over whether or not I visited Xiatyan when I slept, but I didn’t have control of myself. My subconscious knew that telling someone I cared about that I had failed them so completely that they would die would be possibly the most painful thing I had ever done.

So, it refused to let me.

But as the days passed, Xiatyan’s execution only got closer, and I couldn’t keep avoiding him. Leaving him alone in his final days.

The realisation of my cruelty was enough to finally push through my mental block, and I finally arrived at what remained of his prison after the last time Renan - the leader of the Dragon City and his child - had tried to kill him.

As soon as I arrived, he turned to me with an understanding look, which was almost worse than him scolding me for leaving him alone for so long.

I take it your plan to convince the High Priestesses to speak for me failed?

I hugged my arms tight to my chest as I sighed, deciding to cut right to the point. Renan has wards around your cell. They know that I had been to see you while in heat, and they're convinced that I'm pregnant. They also think that I would be able to free you simply by drawing on the child's power before they're born, so they won't risk getting to the point where they can confirm their hunch. They've brought up your execution date.

Don’t blame yourself, Skye, he said, and I wondered if I was really that obvious. You were in the depths of your first heat, and you did manage to pull yourself away. That’s more restraint than could be expected from any Dragon.

But it still wasn’t enough, and now Renan is calling for your head.

Then let them. We have spent so long trying to fight this, Skye, but maybe it’s my time. I have been in this prison for centuries, and I am the last of my kind. I escaped the death of the Great Dragons by chance, and maybe I shouldn’t have. Maybe the Great Dragons weren’t meant to survive.

How can you say that? What will happen to the balance of magic if the last Great Dragon dies? What will happen to the rest of the Dragons without your magic?

I’m not sure, but maybe it’s time for change.

I shook my head. There were plenty of changes I would be happy for the Dragons to make, but our slow death after losing Xiatyan’s magic wasn’t one of them.

I GROANED AS I AWOKE, and Lorelei’s hand was on my shoulder almost immediately.

I turned to them as I sat up with a questioning look.

I could feel that you were with Xiatyan, she said. Are you all right?

I’ll be fine, it’s him I’m worried about. I think he’s given up, Lo.

Maybe it’s not as much giving up as preparing himself for the worst. We might be able to save him, Skye, but the odds aren’t good.

Naveen and Jamie stirred at my other side as the smell of smoke filled the room and I looked down to see that I had been clutching the bedsheets in my hands, and the fabric was burning.

I can’t lose him, Lo, I said, shaking my head. Not like this. Not when it was my fault.

Jamie, who awoke slightly faster than Naveen, looked like they were going to argue, but I glared at them and they backed down. I didn’t want to hear more platitudes about how I shouldn’t blame myself.

Yes, of course, Renan was the one pushing for his execution, but I had the chance to stop them and I blew it.

There were no platitudes that would change that fact.

We’ll figure something out, Naveen said, thankfully not trying to argue with my guilt. If we can make him less powerful, and he’s less of a threat, maybe Renan will listen.

I nodded, though I wasn’t exactly convinced that we would be able to figure something out in time.

Come on, Naveen said as he got out of bed. I don’t have any classes this morning, so why don’t we take my research to Lia and see if she can help with anything?

I just nodded again, figuring that I didn’t have a better plan.

LORELEI AND JAMIE CAME with us to Lia’s office. Jamie, probably because they’d been helping Naveen with his research, and Lorelei because she hadn’t stopped glancing at me with a worried frown since I’d woken up.

Lia was in her office, which I hadn’t even realised she’d had, and I couldn’t help but realise that it was extremely sparse as we stepped inside.

Maybe I’d never realised this office existed because Lia barely ever stepped inside it herself.

But I supposed, as it got closer to the end of term, it made