54 I May Have A Theory (1/2)

”…I'm really not that good at blood magic; I never have been. I was practicing before we left and could only add a couple of feet at most. Watch.”

He closed his eyes and his brow furrowed in concentration as he cast the spell. The normally invisible barrier glowed red and Ruby was able to see it slowly inch its way toward a dome shape before stopping.

Ash opened his eyes and glanced up at it in defeat before turning to her. ”See? Only two feet higher. Now take a hold of my arm and see the difference.”

She rested her hand on his inner elbow and watched him do the exact same spell casting hand signals as before but this time the magic extended hundreds of feet above the castle and closed. They were encased in a giant red bubble that shimmered and disappeared once he put his hands down.

Ruby was amazed. She actually had an effect on vampire magic! But why?!

Her powers were abnormal but they had never once affected anyone else's. She was only capable of controlling things that came from beneath the earth and doing more with her glamour than the average fae.

Blood was in living things. The only living things earth fairies were able to control were plants, which didn't even have blood!

She frowned and placed her hands on her hips. ”Why did that work?!”

Ash shrugged. ”I may have a theory but I'm not sure I should share it with you.”

”Ashhhh,” Ruby whined. He couldn't withhold information like that; it wasn't fair! ”You can't keep something like that to yourself. I just helped a magically challenged vampire finish a spell; that's super weird for me.”

He glared at her when she said 'magically challenged' but ended up relenting. He casually sat down on a stone bench and leaned back on his arms before saying anything.

”Don't hate me…but I saw you making windows in the dungeon once. You did something to the sand to change the composition of it, right? Sand is made of minerals and there are minerals in blood so I thought there might be a connection,” Ash said casually.

Making windows? But that was weeks ago! He never said anything about catching her in all this time.

If he had really known there was something weird about her powers for that long and hadn't taken advantage of them that far back, it strengthened the validity of what he said that night on the side of the road. He truly didn't care what her powers were or want to use them beyond what they had already agreed upon.

Warmth flooded through her. Ruby had been right to trust him with her wings in the beginning after all. He was a good person.

She had never made the connection before but it did seem like all of her powers were connected to minerals aside from the glamour. Ash might be onto something here.

Minerals were much broader than that since they were solid chemical compounds that occurred naturally in pure form. They were primarily associated with rocks because rocks were made of minerals but there were organic minerals too. Like the ones in blood.