“At any rate,” Salix’s voice broke through the king’s troubled thoughts like a firecracker going off, “I’m still concerned about that strange magic. I don’t recognize it from any of my studies. Princess Seraphina, you say you’ve never experienced anything like it before?”
Seraphina frowned up at him. “Didn’t you hear me? I can’t do magic at all. I can’t even fly!” She threw her arms up in the air and then let them come down on Alios’s shoulders, blinking in confusion when she found herself in his arms, as though utterly baffled by how she had come to be in that position.
“That’s what I feared,” Salix huffed, turning away and heading for his office. He returned less than half a second later with a heavy tome that looked thick enough to give a fully grown man a severe concussion if they
