The door to the spell room opened as I handed the rounded piece of wood to Jen. Clover walked in, followed by Stan. She had her hand closed in a fist and stopped to look at Jen while Jen scraped the magic off with the wood.
“No one answered when we knocked. I figured you were already in here. Had to negate the magic to get it off you?” Clover asked.
Right! That was what African Blackwood was for, negating magic. I couldn’t remember. It made sense. I felt like an i***t for not knowing that right away.
“Yeah. It’s stubborn. It likes feeding on my magic, but it knows it’s not supposed to attach to me.” Jen answered.
“I suspect mine will be the same way. Yours looks bigger.”
“It fed on Val’s magic. That’s going to be more in tune with it than Stanton’s magic. Probably why he was picki
