I couldn't do this.

I'd followed Darby's directions word for word, and I thought I would feel different somehow, more powerful maybe with all that Sorceress power bubbling through my insides. But I didn't. The only way I would know for sure if that coin held my Sorceress magic was to try it out, and the only bit of magic I knew was how to raise the dead.

Just thinking about it made my flesh slink around my bones. I'd fought so hard to keep dead things away from me, to ...