Corruption by Allyson Lindt

Author:Allyson Lindt [Lindt, Allyson]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781955518116
Publisher: Acelette Press

Twelve

Fenrir

So much talking for so little information. It hadn’t made me bitey, but I did need a nap. Unfortunately, I needed one more piece of information, too. “How are we supposed to find Vidar?”

Bragi paused and looked at me. “You have a woman on your side who can sense where people are.”

“Not with a lot of accuracy,” Dahlia said. “Something tells me he won’t be easy to find.”

“You’re not trying hard enough. I’ve played this conversation out. Everything I’ve told you so far, you can verify on your own. If I tell you where Vidar is, why would you trust me? If you did decide to trust me, and you went after him and he wasn’t there, you’d trust me less. Or if things went sideways, I’d hate that.”

He was right about one thing—I didn’t believe him. “Would you really?”

“I would.” Bragi’s smile was tight. “Good night.” He strolled out the door.

Kirby kicked out the chair next to Gwydion and dropped into it like a rag doll. “Have I mentioned how much I hate the fucking gods?” she blew out a raspberry.

“Not in the last twelve hours. Might be a new record for you.” Gwydion’s voice was light as he squeezed her knee.

“He’s not as bad as most of them.” Magnus sounded subdued.

The fun atmosphere that was here before Bragi walked in had vanished, disintegrated in the grind of new information. “What do we want to do now?” I asked.

“Nothing’s really changed, has it?” Dahlia opened her laptop again. “We were looking for Vidar before, we’re looking for him now. He’s still the target.”

I sat next to her, searching for the right words to help raise her spirits. What popped into my head was a good indicator of how much time I’d been spending with this group lately. “You know what you should do? When you find Vidar, you should choke him on a dick.”

Her almost laugh was worth it. “Not quite the way the phrase works.”

“No, I think he’s onto something.” Magnus sat on Dahlia’s other side. “But I say we take it one step further and make Vidar choke on his own dick.”

At the sound of wooden chair legs scraping on the floor, I half-turned in my seat to see Kirby straightening up. “Nuh-uh. He deserves to choke on a bag of dicks.”

“A bag of his own dicks,” Gwydion said. “We’ll magically clone them. He can gag on the entire sack.”

Magnus snorted. “You said sac.”

“What about a bag of dicks wrapped in used condoms?” Frey said.

The look Gwydion gave him was withering.

Frey stared back with a deep frown. “After all that, you’re going to tell me I went too far?”

“We still have to find Vidar.” Dahlia slouched on her bar stool. “He’s likely not even in this realm. He’s got that fucking dragon-slash-fae magic. Enough of it to hide an entire campus.”

I didn’t like seeing her defeated. “A campus you found.”

“By mistake.” She clenched her fists.

“But that still means that you’re capable. You went to Artura to find out how to control it.

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