Never Keep (Sins of the Zodiac #1)

CHAPTER THIRTY THREE

I ’d made several attempts at breaking through the hidden door in the refectory either just before the doors were closed at night or just after they opened at dawn, but I’d eventually had to accept, it was sealed tight with magic and I couldn’t get through.

That left the path through the sea cave, and since the Sky Witch had returned from battle, she had gone back to ignoring my summons. It wasn’t like I wanted to ask for help, in fact, doing so was starting to leave a bitter taste on my tongue. Especially with her continued refusals. So at every opportunity, I practised the cast on water I’d need to make the ascent into that high up tunnel in the underground caverns.

So far, the highest I’d gotten was around twenty feet before I’d lost my grip on the cast and had fallen down into the unforgiving ocean beyond the shore of Obsidian Cove. I was yet to make a new tiderunner to ride the waves, but the more time I spent in the wild waters out there, the more I realised I didn’t need one anymore.