The Fake Dating Spell novel · Chapter 16 of 24
Chapter 16: The Broken Ring
Pippa walked up the hall with every eye on her and her chin high enough to scrape the chandeliers.
She stopped in front of the Sight-mage and unfolded the handkerchief.
Two grey halves of stone lay in the cloth, each with a curl of silver.
"This was on my shop floor," Pippa said. "I swept around it for a week. I'm an apothecary, not a fool."
The Sight-mage took the halves in her palm.
She held them to the light, and her pale eyes went flat and far away.
"A love ward," she said.
A rustle went round the Court.
"It binds one person's love to one other person.
"It is fixed in a stone, and fed through the skin by a resin dissolved in the blood."
She turned the broken ring over.
"The maker's hand is on it. A school hand, very careful. A spellwright's, not a mage's."
"Hers," said the Chancellor, triumphant. "She made it herself."
"No," said the Sight-mage. "The binder's hand. The maker pressed the stone shut with his own thumb. You can see the print."
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