Karani had given me all the tools I’d need to succeed. The magic that now formed a part of my soul had strengthened and I could feel myself growing stronger each day. The book she’d left me had a carefully thought-out plan, a way for me to kill Dezrael without dying.
“You have to be careful with the spell I will reveal to you. It will enable you to kill a witch without killing yourself. The Norns showed me a woman, she was cutting out the liver of her baby, later to be revealed, your baby. She performed the spell unsuccessfully and she went into a Seidr trance and saw your first child. In the realms of Vanaheim, I will have no power to use, and I’ll be unable to stop her. She took my magic through your first-born and then drained your life force from you.”
I had read that part so many ti
