Ch 6 Loose magic
Because she wanted to be sure not to miss the party Anna had to find a place that she could build a doorway that didn't have to be closed. She found her spot in a shed, not far from the gardens. Anna brushed away cobwebs as she entered, there was a dark corner at the back she where she could put her doorway.
From the state of the shed she was sure nobody had been here in some time. Just to be safe though she tried something she had been thinking about. She put a fold in the curtain of air so that if you came straight on you would see nothing.
You could only go through the doorway if you entered at the right angle. As an added precaution, she made the doorway go into her linen closet.
There it would be as black as the shed, no light would escape to betray it. She stepped through and felt the shelves press against her back. Ahead she felt the solid wood of her door. With a twist of the energies she moved the door to the side. She wanted to be able to use her linen closet.
She stepped back through the doorway into the shed. Maybe it was because she was doing something more involved than just bending or weaving energies, but she found there was a great deal of extra energy she had to deal with.
She needed to find something to do with it. She had remembered seeing what looked like rivers of energy running through the ground, maybe if she bled it into one or more of those she could get rid of it that way.
She walked back to the gardens and found an isolated nook with a bench in it. Sitting down with a sigh she put her cane to one side and sat closing her eyes. Reaching inside and anchoring herself to the earth, she opened something. What she wasn't sure , it just seemed to be the right thing to do.
Her instincts hadn't let her down yet. She reached for the river of energy, it wasn't as strong as the energies she had been weaving and she stroked it, opening it to the energies she held at the back of her mind.
The rate at which it safely absorbed the energy she was feeding to it was much too slow, she quickly found another and joined to that one as well.
Within five minutes she had joined to a dozen of the rivers of energy. Finally she had drained enough of the energy that she could safely handle the rest. She carefully disengaged from all the streams and absorbed the last bit for herself.
She was tired and her stomach was telling her it was time to go home and eat. It took longer to make her way back to the shed, exhaustion making her clumsy so that she had to be more careful.