(eng) M. K. Hobson - Veneficas Americana 03 by The Warlock's Curse

Author:The Warlock's Curse [Curse, The Warlock's]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Working with a Will

TWELVE DAYS UNTIL THE FULL MOON

Dear Will:

I am in receipt of your telegram confirming that you’ve sent Jenny home. Good for you. You’ve made a wise choice. I’ve had a very interesting letter from Mother describing the hullabaloo you’ve caused back home. She says Jenny made it a condition of her return that everyone had to stop bothering Tesla Industries about you. Loyal little wife you’ve got there! Sometime you’ll have to tell me what the hell you two were thinking. Didn’t I tell you to watch out for girls?

Mr. Hansen got Mother to agree, but apparently Father was a lot more pigheaded about it. So now she’s almost as mad at Father as she is at you. She knows it was his pigheadedness that drove you to take such desperate measures—and while it was her duty to support him, she can’t figure out why he was so riled up about you going to Tesla Industries in the first place, or why he cares so much now about getting you back.

Well, anyway. Leave them to hash it out amongst themselves. You’re at Tesla Industries, and the parents won’t be bothering you anymore, and I hope things can really get started for you in earnest. I am still hoping to come visit you, as I promised. It is very difficult to get away at the moment because we at the Institute are all working very hard on the promotion efforts for the new Dreadnought Stanton moving picture that Edison Studios is putting out.

It occurs to me that you’ve probably wondered just what it is I do at the Stanton Institute. Especially since it is a magical institution, and I’ve described at length how my ability to practice magic was taken from me at a young age.

My work isn’t especially glamorous (if you’ll excuse the pun). I’m what is called a Jefferson Chair, but that really reflects more of how my position is funded as opposed to what I actually do. My official title is Senior Mantic Research Associate. I compile detailed reports on magical artifacts of particular power or interest for Sophos Stanton. He uses my research—and the research of many others like me—to decide what artifacts he needs to take into the Institute’s safekeeping. Of course, his retrieval of said artifacts is usually not quite as dramatic as is portrayed in the pulp novels. Most of the time, in fact, we just buy them. But it’s a good day’s work, especially when we can take something particularly dangerous or malign out of the hands of those who might seek to use it for nefarious purposes.

Anyway, I will send you details about my arrival when I can. I am looking forward to seeing you in person. It’s been such a long time, and we have so much to discuss.

Your brother always,

Ben

All the other apprentices at Tesla Industries got Sundays off. For them it meant a day of rest on which they could enjoy a special vegetarian meal

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