Death's Handmaiden by Niall Teasdale

Author:Niall Teasdale [Teasdale, Niall]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: magic school, sorceress, alien, spirit, ghost, serial killer, magician, school, science fiction, detective, sci-fi, fantasy, martial arts, sorcery, adventure, action, mystery, magic, sorcerer
Published: 2020-01-30T08:00:00+00:00

Part Four: Quintessential Terror

The Trenton Mansion, Shinden, Clan Worlds Alliance, 235/5/9.

The sun was hot, the sky was blue with a few wisps of cloud hanging on through grim determination, and Nava was lying in the sun, enjoying the warmth on her skin. Somewhere in the background, she could hear Rochester trying to teach Melissa how to play chess. It did not seem to be going especially well, but it did mean that he did not have to look at an excessive amount of female flesh.

It was true that Mitsuko had put some thought into ordering Nava a swimsuit. She had considered the fact that Rochester was going to be joining them on their two-ish-day visit to the Trenton Mansion at the end of the late spring break. Nava had suggested, on seeing the garment in question, that Rochester would die of heart failure and then Mitsuko would have to deal with the consequences. Mitsuko had then shown Nava what she would have ordered if Rochester was not a factor and Nava had had to concede that the eventual choice was better…

Hence, Nava was clad in something which covered all the bits required for public decency while still managing to look like it had come from a lingerie catalogue and probably deserved the name ‘monokini,’ and Rochester was teaching Melissa chess. Melissa actually had a bikini on under a blouse and shorts, but she had chickened out of taking off the outer layer once they had got outside. Nava had been a little surprised that the timid young woman had such a thing as a bikini, though her idea of a bikini was poles apart from what Mitsuko was wearing; there had to be three or four times as much fabric in Melissa’s version for starters. Nava had made Mitsuko walk behind Rochester on the way out to the patio they were using to avoid cardiac infarction.

‘We’ll go into town tomorrow,’ Mitsuko said. She sounded as though she was right on the edge of falling asleep and had decided to say something primarily to avoid doing so. She was lying on a lounger beside Nava. Another thing Rochester had had to be distracted from was the lengthy process Nava had gone through putting sunscreen on Mitsuko’s pale skin. Mitsuko had to use the strongest blocking factor available to avoid turning into a lobster and there was a lot of her to smooth the stuff onto.

‘Town?’ Nava responded. The mansion was not exactly close to anywhere.

‘Alliance City. It’s only thirty minutes or so to get there.’

‘By rocket?’

Mitsuko giggled. ‘Courtney has a contragrav licence. We can borrow a car. We have… an indeterminate number of them in the garage.’ Courtney and Kyle were somewhere else in the complex the Trentons called a mansion. Possibly, they were testing the bed in their room.

‘Your family is really rich, isn’t it? Most people can at least count the vehicles they own. On one finger, usually.’

‘I could say something at this point which would make me sound like a really terrible person.

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