Black City (The Lark Case Files) by Read Christian

Author:Read, Christian [Read, Christian]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Gestalt Publishing
Published: 2013-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

Thirty-Eight

We while away the afternoon, speaking of other things. Sasha joins us, and we speak of her studies, tell her edited stories of life in the Library, which she always likes, making them action flicks not horror stories. I take my mind off things for a while until Sasha has an appointment with tutors.

Mully and I retire to his study again. He wants us to play chess, but I was never good at the game. I think the rules are fake. Restrictive. I always imagine white pawns assassinating white kings, refusing to be sacrificed. Popular revolutions. Bishops declaring each other antipope.

The afternoon sun fades away and now it's just cold outside.

'Who had access to Primal magic?'

He shrugs. 'It's all around us. People rediscover it all the time, as well. Where do you think it came from?'

'The Gallowglass collection. Seems the only place it could.'

'So why didn't they use it?'

'Couldn't.'

'Or wouldn't.'

I shake my head. 'Couldn't.'

'But the Old Man knew?'

'No, I don't think so. Or they only got access to the Primal sigil a few months ago. Perhaps the Old Man planted it?'

'It's the sort of thing he likes to do.'

Sit in silence, drinking Turkish coffee now. Clock chimes five. He cranes his head to peer at me.

'So in the absence of answers, what do we do?'

I almost smile. He's asked me this a hundred times or more.

'Pin down what evidence we can. There's got to be a Bleak Elector or a Gallowglasser around somewhere. If nothing else fails, find Jeancat. Someone has better answers for me.'

His old hand, his long fingers, reach into his desk and he emerges with a key.

'You know your way around my sanctum.' He's not asking.

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