Blaze of Magic by J.A. Culican

Author:J.A. Culican [Culican, J.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dragon Realm Press
Published: 2018-08-30T05:00:00+00:00

Bells crouched on a rooftop, her heels and thighs aching from maintaining the position for so long, and watched the tavern across the street. She had followed Tallon for an hour, but so far had learned nothing new. Tallon visited a couple shops in the market plaza before heading to the tavern, but the only purchases she saw him make were a light meal and a human-made disposable lighter.

She carefully went prone, lying on her stomach to give her limbs a chance to stop cramping, and rested her chin on her arms atop the roof's peak.

After fifteen minutes of chatting with people at the bar and buying drinks, Tallon settled into a booth seat that didn't give her the best view of him, but it was good enough to see him if he got up, or anyone who sat with him.

She muttered, "What do you think, Sword, are we going to catch him in the act?"

The sword never answered her questions directly, at least not using pictures like she had told Jaekob. That was merely the easiest way to explain it. She often tried to think of better ways to explain how the sword communicated, but she lacked the words. It connected with her mind on a deep level—somewhere instinctive, even primal—sending her what felt like flashes of intuition.

Maybe it tapped directly into her subconscious. She tried not to think about the time Jaekob said he worried about how it was affecting her mind. Talking to her subconscious could certainly do that, though it was only one possibility. However it spoke to her, it only answered her question one way in all the times she had asked. While it acknowledged that Tallon didn't tell the whole truth to the Crown of Pures and had left something important out, the sword stopped short of agreeing that Tallon was a traitor. That bit of intuition was entirely her own.

So, why was she risking her safety on some high roof while chasing a powerful elf through the city at night when weres were out? Ultimately, she trusted her gut when it spoke to her strongly. If she was wrong, it only cost her a night of sleep, but if she was right...

A familiar tingle started at the back of her mind—her rider bond with Jaekob. "So, he's following me like I'm following Tallon. Bah. He's not very good at this."

She rolled over onto her back, reeled her fae senses in from the beam she had kept on Tallon for the last half-hour, then pushed them outward in every direction. Experience told her that when their minds connected like this, it meant Jaekob was in range of her senses.

Sure enough, she found him heading in her direction, creeping down a nearby alley. Once again, she wondered how he found her. Their rider bond probably told him what direction she was in or something. She had already come to accept the idea that he could find her anytime he wanted to. Apparently, this was one of those times.

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