Secretly Sam (22 page)

Now the four of them were ready, or at least, as ready as they would ever be. Dietrich looked down at his companions; he’d grown at least half a foot during his transformation. They looked up at him. He met Meagan’s gaze and held it.

“Are you ready?” he asked.

She nodded. “Yes.”

He took a deep breath, grabbed her hand to squeeze it gently in support, and nodded.

Meagan turned toward the tree in which Logan had carved her word. A bard’s words did not hold as much magic in this world as they did in Samhain’s realm. Not on their own.

But when they were read by a witch, it was another story.

Meagan licked her lips and raised her free hand toward the space that had held the portal hours earlier. Dietrich held his breath. The world quieted.

And in a clear voice filled with magic and hope, Meagan the witch read what Logan the bard had shed her blood to write.

“
Open
.”

The End.

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