Bloodmage by Stephen Aryan

Author:Stephen Aryan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction / Fantasy / Epic, Fiction / Action & Adventure
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2016-04-12T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 26

After an incredibly long day Fray should have just collapsed into bed when he got home. The missing journal entries from his father weren’t going anywhere. He could get some real sleep and read them in the morning when he was refreshed. He’d waited this long. One more night wouldn’t make any difference.

Instead of going to bed Fray lit every candle stub in his dingy room. In the flickering glow he smoothed out the pages and began to sort them into order, starting with the oldest. After reading so many of his father’s private journals he immediately recognised the crisp clean letters. Everything was neat and tidy. Everything had its proper place and Fray suspected his father’s mind had been the same, organised into different sections.

The chaos and disorder of the real world must have agitated his father no end. He’d tried so hard to keep his work and home life separate but they’d bled together around the edges. Fray had come to know Byrne from the many times he’d visited their home and had overheard countless conversations about investigations. Equally, thoughts of Fray and his mother must have pushed his father to work harder to keep them safe from all of the horrors he saw on a daily basis.

Bringing his mind back to the present Fray stared down at the pages. There were more pages than he had been anticipating. Finally, after five years of wondering, the answers about how his father had died were in front of him. Fray took a few deep breaths and tried to stop his hands from shaking.

The first few pages detailed the initial encounter with what would later come to be known as a Flesh Mage. To begin with the journal entries detailed a case, from twelve years ago, about a series of seemingly unconnected disappearances. However, each disappearance was preceded by a period of out-of-character behaviour by the victim. After the first few the Guardians assumed people were being abducted or murdered. But there were never any witnesses, no ransoms were ever received and no obvious suspects were found.

Eventually they had found a pattern and from there tracked down a key witness. The hunt for the Flesh Mage began in earnest. Thankfully, due to his father’s ability to see through her disguises with his magic, they found the Flesh Mage before she’d transformed into someone else.

From the moment the woman was caught and put into a cell she never spoke a single word. That changed when Fray’s father used his magic to look at her again.

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