Dragon Blood Curse (Emperor’s Assassin #4)

Nineteen

“What do you want me to do?” I asked, feeling exhausted. “I have the basics of forest magic, but I can’t say I understand it.”

“You don’t need to understand it. You just need to follow my directions,” Riini snapped. But it wasn’t really her; it was the eons of knowledge that had once been inside a living elder tree, speaking through the voice of a child.

“I do need to understand. I have learned three forms of magic already, and none of them were ones I could do without practice.” I felt frustration building, feeling the fire of rage licking up my throat. “You must teach me more than this basic understanding.”