Bad Magic: 5 Novels of Demons, Djinn, Witches, Warlocks, Vampires, and Gods Gone Rogue by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-26T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 13

I got my phone call and my own holding cell. I was under arrest for a slew of minor offences. They had yet to connect me with the three dead kids from the midtown high-rise, and if my phone call paid off, they wouldn’t get a chance. But if they found Alysdair, it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to place me on the roof where the kids had been butchered.

If my call didn’t pay off, it might be time to leave the city. The thought of leaving New York wasn’t pleasant. After a few decades, the city, its endless activity, its hard outlook, and its no-bullshit people were a part of me. I’d made a home here, settled here longer than anywhere else. But perhaps it was time. Stay in one place too long and the roots rot, so the old world saying goes.

It had been so much easier to slide under the radar when people weren’t armed with cell phones and cameras. Now everything was filmed, recorded, and ferreted away into datacenters. It was more difficult than ever to hide—unless you happened to be like Osiris and relished hiding in plain sight.

A uniformed cop collected me from my cell and escorted me to an interrogation room.

The door clicked closed behind me, leaving me standing under the cool scrutiny of the straight-faced, charcoal-suited Thoth.

He appraised me from his sitting position at the table and said in a tone so flat and sharp it could have cut diamonds, “No cell can hold you.”

I shrugged, finding myself restless under his gaze. He didn’t exude power the same way Osiris did. Thoth’s lurked deep. “I have to live this life. I’d prefer not to live it on the run.”

He opened his briefcase, removed a slip of paper, and slid it across the table toward me. “The evidence is circumstantial. They have nothing to hold you. You’ll be released. Sign here.”

Hands still cuffed, I eyed the mirrored wall. Attorney-client conversations were confidential, but it wasn’t the cops I was concerned about. Gods had many ways of eavesdropping on the unsuspecting.

After signing Thoth’s form—as confident as I could be that the God of Law wasn’t about to screw me over—I pushed the paper back across the table.

He gathered the document and neatly inserted it into the proper place inside his briefcase. Then he nudged one of his pens back in line, making it parallel with its neighbor. Gods forbid anything was out of place. He’d have a fit if he saw my filing system.

“You can’t afford me, Mister Dante,” Thoth said, still cold, still flat. He had about as much spark in him as a reanimated corpse.

“No, I can’t afford you, but like I said, I have information to trade.” What I was about to do, if it went wrong, could start a feud that would have far-reaching consequences. Or Thoth might try and kill me where I stood, because that would certainly be one fine way out of this mess.

Thoth leaned both elbows on the table and steepled his fingers.

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