Clawing for Victory (The Dragonclaw Sword Book 6) by Kevin McLaughlin & Michael Anderle

Author:Kevin McLaughlin & Michael Anderle [McLaughlin, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2021-11-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

The centrifuge that Sheila delivered was a far more finely tuned machine than the one they had used in the Chrome Castle. Already, Vala and Jasmine—who levitated it to a more secure surface away from Raspberry’s antics—had broken the pixie juice down into its three constituent parts. They had a few milliliters of each liquid in vials and were ready to run tests.

Vala brought a scanner out. This one was a designated oscilloscope and she only had to do the slightest of modifications to make it work. It was quite a change from modifying another Gameboy but she still did not get the results she wanted.

She had loaded the waveform of the Void on the magical wavelength oscilloscope and tried to determine which of the three liquids had the greatest impact on the Void.

“I’m sorry, Vala, I don’t get it,” Jasmine said for the umpteenth time. “I thought that each part of the Pixie Dust—”

“Juice!” Raspberry shouted from his overgrown station.

“Juice. Right, whatever. I thought that each part of the juice would be different. Isn’t that why we separated them?”

Vala sighed and nodded. “That’s the theory I’ve worked with. I assumed that some part of the Pixie Dust was attenuating the Void magic.”

“A part of the Pixie Dust was attenuating the Void,” Tanya said. She had calmed since growing a jungle in the basement of the lab.

“The juice!” Raspberry added.

“Right, and we got that part out of the Pixie Dust,” Vala said. They’d been over all this before. “But I don’t see how every part of this juice can have the same effect on the Void.”

“Maybe the issue is that they’re all too close together.”

She shook her head in frustration. “I wondered about that. At least we have space down here. Raspberry and Tanya, you two can stay put right there. Jasmine, let’s take each of these three vials to separate corners of this space and try to test them like that.”

The mage groaned. “But we have only now got everything set up. It’ll take more time to move everything than it did to test.”

“I know, but that’s part of the job. Come on, if we hop to it, it’ll go more quickly.”

Jasmine nodded and levitated a table.

“Would it be better if we had some more help?” the pixie asked.

“We do have help.” Vala gestured to some of the SpaceD techs who were already helping to move tables and gear under Jasmine’s instruction.

“No, I mean proper pixie help!” Raspberry said before he made a portal to the pixie realm appear.

“That’s not necessary!” Jasmine shouted. “The last thing we need is a pixie like Rider showing up.”

“Rider—that’s a great idea. He loves the Big Pixie,” the little creature responded and hopped through the portal.

“There’s no way this ends well,” Jasmine muttered.

“Oh, come on, Jasmine. Don’t be so negative.” Tanya chastised her friend. “I know Rider can be a handful but his heart is in the right place. Besides, how much damage could one pixie do?”

The answer to her question arrived riding a goose.

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