Helpless (Blue Fire Saga) Read Online Free PDF

venture out into the arctic wasteland?” she asked, smiling.
    “Not dressed like this,” Katie said, fingering the sleeve of her red Weston sweatshirt.
    Cali rolled her eyes in faux frustration. “Duh,” she said. “After we go upstairs and change, of course.”
    Leesa laughed. “With you, we’re never quite sure, Cali.”
    “Ha, ha. I know, right?” Cali said. “How about we all meet back down here in fifteen minutes?”
    Everyone nodded, so they took their dishes into the kitchen and then headed upstairs.
    Back in her room, Leesa pawed through her closet, looking for her loosest pair of pants to wear over her jeans for playing in the snow. The cargo pants she’d worn yesterday were still damp, so she settled on a pair of khakis. While the material wasn’t as thick as the cargoes, she thought the two layers should still be enough to keep her legs warm and dry. She decided a T-shirt, sweatshirt and her parka would be enough for her upper body.
    As she pulled the khakis up over her jeans, her thoughts turned to the two men in her life, Rave and Dominic. It was nice not to have to worry about Rave at all because of the cold and snow, but she did wonder what he was doing and when she would see him next. All the time that she’d been hoping and praying for snow, she hadn’t thought about what the snow would mean as far as being able to get together with him. She didn’t know how long it would keep him away, but decided if he hadn’t come to see her by next weekend, she would try to borrow a car and drive to him instead. She hoped he was making use of their forced separation to put in some extra practice on that Rammugul thing.
    Dominic was a different matter. He was somewhere nearby, she knew, and she was sure he would be coming by to work with her sometime today. She wondered where the wizard had slept last night. She’d offered to let him stay in her room, but he declined, saying that except for when he was training her, it was safer if he remained apart from her because of the enemies searching for him.
    Part of her thought Dominic might be exaggerating the danger. After all, hadn’t he been successfully eluding his pursuers for more than a hundred years? The chances they might stumble across him now while he was with her were remote—as long as he didn’t use any of his active magic, of course.
    She wondered what they were going to do when it finally became time to begin training with active magic. Dominic said it should be safe for her to use in small doses, because the grafhym taint in her blood had somehow altered her vibrations and also because she was female. There had never been a female waziri—that fact alone should have altered her vibrations. Still, she thought her training would require at least some demonstration of his magic, and that would be a beacon to his enemies. She had no idea how Dominic planned to handle that.
    It wasn’t anything she needed to worry about right now, though. She still had weeks, if not months, of the preliminary training she should have received before she turned eighteen. There was also her training in passive magic—the kind Dominic said their enemies could not detect, even from him. He would be able to demonstrate the passive stuff as much as necessary. She smiled, remembering that eventually the passive magic would make her less susceptible to the weather—she’d be able to say good-bye to doubling up on her pants.
    Finished dressing, all that was left was to settle on a pair of boots. She decided to go with a pair of knee high black leathers, the tallest boots she owned. Even they would not be tall enough for the depth of the snow outside, but they were the best she had. She rolled her khakis up above her knees and pulled the boots on, tucking her jeans inside them. Once she got the jeans comfortably smooth inside the boots, she rolled the khakis down over the tops. She grabbed her parka, cap and gloves and headed downstairs to meet her friends.
    Stacie and