Wing Clipping/8

"Eavesdroppers only ever hear things they wished they didn't."

Luna was starting to think Aunt Eliza's words were more right than wrong.

Because the Black Swan? What in Ever After was a Black Swan?

Opal was called that by Uncle Garvey, she had heard it many times, but given the fact that they kept mentioning "clipping" the Black Swan's wings, and also kept for whatever reason mentioning the spooky cousin who never talked, Luna had a feeling the Black Swan they were talking about was something else.

She had a thought that she should be mad at Larkin for apparently keeping the Wicked Queen's Spellbook and giving to the next Wicked Queen, but more important things were at the front of her mind. the spell they wanted to use apparently was incomplete.

What kind of idiot only put part of a spell in a spell book? Considering this spell was to destroy something that Luna gathered was probably more powerful than the Wicked Queen and more evil, they were morons.

...Unless that was the point.

A spell that can destroy something so powerful must be a pretty complicated and powerful spell. (Having no magic of her own, Luna was pretty much guessing at this point, but it sounded like good logic.) Anyway, maybe the Wicked Queen couldn't do this alone.

Maybe dark magic wasn't enough to destroy it. Maybe it needed light magic...? (Again, grasping at straws).

But if that were the case, Luna knew of one other all powerful magic caster in their fairy tale. And luckily, said all powerful magic caster cast light magic. Perhaps even more lucky, Luna knew exactly where to find her spell book.

It was almost curfew when Luna headed back to her dorm, mind focused on one thing. Finding the Queen of All The Fairies Spell book. (Assuming Julia didn't change her hiding spot between the spirit transfer debacle and now.)