(eng) Niall Teasdale - Thaumatology 08 by Ancient

Author:Ancient [Ancient]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Part Six: The Blood War

Soho, London, June 2nd, 2012

Full moon was three nights away and the Jade Dragon should have been humming with boisterous werewolves as well as the humans who enjoyed the kind of atmosphere which resulted from them. Instead it was almost empty. Friday night had seen more vampire attacks and the government had called for a state of emergency. The streets were full of police and army units armed with incendiary rounds. They were not taking prisoners and vampires had been warned to stay off the streets entirely.

‘This sucks,’ Ceri commented. ‘I feel guilty taking the pay for this evening.’

‘If you have a brilliant idea on how to find Raynor,’ Carter replied, ‘I’d be happy to pay you to go out and do that.’ He was not his usual ebullient self, even though Cheryl was there in a very short, backless dress. ‘He’s bad for business. You realise a lot of places are shut tonight so we’re getting the people who would be elsewhere… and this is all we have.’

‘You could always close up early,’ Cheryl suggested. ‘It’s your birthday tomorrow.’

The wizard shrugged slightly. ‘Honestly, I’d rather wait until it’s light before we head out. Normally I’d have taken this week off, but the way things have been…’

‘You’re going out to Winchester?’ Lily asked. Her eyes were on the customers, even if there were few of them.

‘Alec is driving,’ Cheryl said. ‘I have my laptop to work on.’ She looked at Ceri. ‘There’s no real need for you to go into the lab. How’s the work on the cross-channel line coming?’

‘I’m still working on the maths, but so far I can’t find an interaction between the normal space medium and the sub-membrane conduit. It’s looking good.’

‘What sort of power do you think you can generate out of a line like that?’ Carter asked.

‘Megawatts certainly,’ Cheryl said. ‘We’ll know more when the Army have finished building their collector in the Bremen base.’

‘I had an idea that might get us more,’ Ceri added. ‘I need to do some more work on it. A ring system to let us put more collectors in the stream. When I have the maths worked out I’ll pass it to you to check, Cheryl.’

‘You think you can do that?’ Cheryl asked, sounding enthusiastic.

‘So far it’s looking good.’ Ceri grinned. ‘Would you believe I dreamed it up? I woke up one morning last week and there was this idea sitting there in my head.’

Cheryl chuckled. ‘Not unheard of. Kekulé supposedly figured out the shape of benzene after having a daydream. He saw snakes biting each other’s tails to make a ring or something.’

Ceri giggled. ‘I saw dragons doing it. I figure it was my tattoo. There were eight dragons and they sort of merged into one big one.’

‘With you it would be dragons,’ Carter commented.

‘Sometimes it’s wolves,’ Lily said.

‘Yeah,’ Cheryl agreed, ‘that’s true. Maybe she can do wolves biting tails tomorrow night.’

‘Werewolves don’t have tails,’ Alec said from across the bar.

Ceri frowned at them. ‘If

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