Wing Clipping/7

Opal had absolutely no clue how Larkin got a hold of her mother's spell book, all she knew was that he pulled both her and her sister into his dorm room, and pulled the book out of a box in his closet. She was going to ask, but figured that was just a part of her boyfriend she would have to accept.

Which is how she found herself here, flipping through the pages. There was the spell to transfer a deceased person's spirit, (she quickly turned the page on that one), spells to turn stuff into other stuff, spells of love, and spells of doom. But she couldn't find the spell she wanted.

"It's not ''here." ''Opal bit her lip. They were trying to save Blakemore, and the book did say that the Wicked Queen possessed a spell to do so, (theoretically), why couldn't she find it?

"It has to be in there! Unless your mother had another spell book somewhere that we don't know about?" Larkin challenged.

"I can't find it! There's supposed to be a spell that will destroy the Black Swan and I don't see it!!!" Opal was getting hysterical.

However, at her word, something happened to the book. It was as if a strong wind was blowing the pages, and then it stopped at a black page, with the words of the spell written in silver ink. "The spell to defeat and destroy the black swan should the need ever arise."

Taking a deep breath, Opal read the spell aloud.

The dark shall form

Shall overtake

Each path you choose

each choice you make

With sound of mind

I say this spell

to abolish the darkness

And make you well

What's needed from me

to make this right

is to com...."

"The spell just ends?"

"I'm afraid it does." Opal looked at the distraught faces of her sister and her boyfriend, before biting her lip and looking down at the spell book again.

"how does that work?"

"I don't know! I didn't write this book! This was my mother's! I've never opened it before!" Opal smacked her hand on the book.

"A spell just can't end like that!" Larkin yelled.

"I don't know! We're missing part of it!" Opal yelled.

"I want to help Blakemore, and this is the way to do it! We just need the other part, wherever that may be." Larkin cried.

"''If we find the other part, this will destroy Blake?" ''Fauve asked, not making eye contact as she pleated the fabric of her shirt.

"We aren't going to destroy her!" Opal exploded. "We're...what are we doing?"

"Clipping her wings." Larkin said decidedly.