Excerpt: Blood Magic

“Leave him,” I said. “There isn’t a way we can take him with us. You’re going to have to carry me and he certainly won’t want to traipse around with us to his almost certain doom. Just let him go.” I saw my cellmate’s head whip towards me, surprise apparent on his face and questions flitting across it. He expected me to kill him, but here I was, leaving him alone. Ruining the writer’s plans. I saw no possible way to take him with us despite the fact that I knew he was supposed to have some part in this story. Maybe, if fate decided it would be so, he would randomly appear sometime later in the story. Somehow. I had no idea what the future held, but perhaps he would be in it. Maybe.