Solid ice.
It dropped me and I skittered across the ice better than a Colorado Avalanche’s hockey puck. I shook violently from the cold.
The troll tried to move, but the ice held firm. I stared as I got up, my body protesting as I did so. I didn’t know what to do now. The ice would hold the troll only for a short while before the spring temperatures took over and melted Grasmere into a lake again. I conjured another mage light and flipped through the frozen pages of Alchemy Magic Today as the troll roared and struggled. I could hear sirens—the cavalry Douglas called for—in the distance.
I looked back at my magazine. Some of the pages were stuck together. One of the pages promised five magical foods. Another offered how to enchant your love interest. Another was about the history behind the Philosopher’s Stone. I kept leafing through the pages while the troll bellowed and dug its claws into the ice, trying to free itself.
I ran across the Five Party Tricks to Wow Your Friends and almost dismissed it until I spied a simple shrinking and transporting spell. Apparently it was to combine the two to annoy your friend when you shrank his car and transported it into your house at a party. The good news was that the size reduction was temporary. Lasted about an hour.
The sirens grew louder and two cop cars pulled into the nearby parking lot with their lights on, outshining my little mage reading light. I put my hand up to shield my eyes as Sargent Jenkins got out of the car with some real firepower.
Et abiit in horreo! Ite in quodam loco ab secure mecum, I read from the magazine, adding my own choice for where it should go, and pointed at the troll. It promptly shrunk to the size of a Labrador Retriever and poofed out of existence.
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Other Books by MH BONHAM
The Ironspell Chronicles Series
That Dragon was in No Way my Fault
A Date with a Werewolf
Alchemist Rules
Elfshot
Wolfsbane
The Swords of Destiny Series
Prophecy of Swords
Runestone of Teiwas
Lachlei
Daemons and Shadows
Serpent Singer and Other Stories
The King’s Champion
Other Books
Howling Dead
Samurai Son
About the Author
MH Bonham is a multiple award winning author of more than 35 books. Besides writing, the author has been a sled dog racer, a canine expert, a rocket scientist, and a practitioner of Karate, Tae Quon Do, and Ninjitsu. Visit the author’s website at www.ironspellchronicles.com for more information and to subscribe to the preferred reader’s list.
