Between Decisions (The City Between Book 8) by W.R. Gingell

Author:W.R. Gingell [Gingell, W.R.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2021-05-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

There was no one outside when we got there, so we showed ourselves in.

“They need to get themselves better security,” I said to JinYeong as we walked cautiously down the hall. It was nice to be able to get in easily, but it was a double-edged sword: if the humans were too startled at seeing us with no notice, there was a pretty good chance we’d get shot by a crossbow—or at the very least take a cricket bat to the side of the head. “Now that I know what sort of magic they’ve got running around the place, it doesn’t take much to get through.”

“They are probably not prepared for something like you,” said JinYeong, with a laughing glitter to his eyes.

“Watch out who you’re calling a thing,” I said, a bit more softly. We were getting closer to the area where we might find people: just a bit further down the hall was the office they seemed to use as a meeting room. Hopefully we’d find Abigail before anyone else.

It took me a moment to realise that JinYeong had stopped walking. I turned an enquiring look on him, and he said, “I will wait. I think they will talk more if you go alone.”

“You’re basically a fixture today,” I told him, but I left him there to pace in the hallway like a slightly erratic pinball and headed on into the room.

Abigail was in the office digging through a box of what looked like someone’s garage sale items when I walked in, with Ezri sitting on the desk beside her, legs crossed and lifting a fringed jacket out of the box.

“You lot need to work on your magic defences,” I said.

Abigail dropped the paperweight she’d been holding in one bandaged hand. “Pet!”

Was I mistaken, or did her eyes flare with panic?

“What are you doing here?”

“Came to see you about that thing I asked you about,” I said. “Didn’t feel like talking about it on the phone. Don’t know who’s listening, half the time.”

“I’d be more worried about the friendly listeners than the unfriendly,” she said, rather grimly. “Look—”

“No time to talk?” I guessed. She still looked vaguely uncomfortable, but that could just have been because I came back again to the headquarters after everything that happened between us a little while ago.

I had almost not come back again: a tacit way of way of saying, I know you don’t trust me so I’ll pretend that I don’t know where you live. Actually, I was a bit surprised that they were still in the same spot: I would have expected them to move after finding out that I had, as they thought of it, betrayed their existence to my three psychos. I’d figured they wouldn’t trust me not to tell Zero where they were.

Apparently I was wrong. That was a pleasant surprise.

Still, Abigail didn’t look too comfortable to have me here, and I shouldn’t let myself be offended at that. It was fair enough.

“I can come back another time,” I said.

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