An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard

Author:Kat Howard
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Saga Press

CHAPTER TWELVE

Working in Special Projects wasn’t what Harper had expected. In fact, although theoretically this huge and all-consuming magical battle was happening across the entire Unseen World, she hadn’t seen one actual magician in the offices. At least, she was pretty sure she hadn’t. Except for the recent emailed wards—which were spectacularly cool and didn’t even give her a headache like most magic did—she hadn’t come across anything even remotely magical. Working in Special Projects was just like working in her previous firm: long hours and lots of writing. She was currently redrafting a will. Then she had to turn in time sheets. Wild excitement.

“Harper, do you have a minute?” Madison paused in her doorway.

“Sure.” She mentally raised a brow when Madison pulled the door closed behind her. Something serious, and secret, then.

“How do you feel about doing some work in the archives?”

The archives. The place where the documents pertaining to the Unseen World were kept—the ones too full of magic to leave on the computers. The place Harper had wanted an excuse to get into since she had started working here. “I feel like it would be more interesting than redrafting form documents.”

“Possibly. There’s a strong chance that it would just be an exercise in a different sort of frustration. Are you game?”

“Sure.”

“Good. I need you to be discreet about this, even within the firm. It involves a case where enforced silence was part of the settlement.” Madison looked drawn—her concealer didn’t quite hide the dark circles under her eyes. Harper knew how tired she was from the hours she’d been keeping in the past few weeks. She also knew that Madison had been in the office before she arrived and had left work after she did every day that she’d been working at Wellington & Ketchum.

“Like an NDA?” Harper asked.

“No, like a binding spell that will physically prevent them from doing so. The attorneys who were directly involved in negotiating the terms would have also been bound, and I’m not sure whether or how far the binding extends.”

Okay, that was kind of cool. “So I might not even be able to tell you about what I find. Is what you’re saying?”

“In an extreme case, you might not even be able to read what you find. The file might look like blank pages, or poetry, or gibberish. And because of the binding, I can’t even tell you how extreme a case this is.”

“Got it. So what case has all these secrets?”

“The disinheritance of Grey Prospero. Time is of the essence, so send me a memo of your ongoing projects and I’ll have them reassigned. When you’re done with that, come by my office and I’ll give you what you need to actually get into the archives.”

Harper doubted she meant a key.

“Is there anything in particular that I’m looking for in the file?” Harper asked.

“No, I just need the file itself when you find it. And don’t make the mistake of thinking that this will be a quick or easy job because that’s all it is.

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