Doorways to Infinity by Geof Johnson

Author:Geof Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-02-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

It was the Wednesday of finals week before Jamie thought of a way to help the two agents. He went to their house late that afternoon, alone.

“I think I know how to put a kink in Cage’s plans, so you might be able to go home for Christmas. I thought of this on my own and I haven’t told my friends yet because Fred won’t like it.” Jamie smiled fleetingly. “How about if we blow up Cage’s helicopter and airplane while they’re at his monastery stronghold? Then he wouldn’t be able to get to his next target, right? He’d be stuck.”

“We’ve already thought of that,” Eric said, “and ruled it out because it’s too dangerous. Someone would have to get in really close to destroy the aircraft, even if they used an RPG or shoulder-fired missile. We’ve never been able to come within two thousand yards of that place, not even with a drone, and the Romanians aren’t too keen on letting our bombers use their airspace.”

“What if I made a doorway for us right beside the runway and blew them up with my magic?” He smiled again and formed his hand into a pistol. “Boom—boom. Two blasts and they’d be nothing but slag heaps. We’d be done in a few seconds, and then we could pop right out of there.”

Eric rubbed his chin and stared at Jamie. “We’d have to know for certain that both he and his aircraft were there so that he’d be stranded.”

“That’s not all,” Terry said. “He might be able to replace one or both of them within days.”

“What if I blow a bunch of holes in his runway, too? Then he couldn’t fly unless he got a helicopter. Maybe I could blast his access road while I’m at it. He couldn’t drive or fly ’til it got fixed. Must be tough getting repair crews up into the mountains on short notice. I bet it’s snowy there, too. He probably couldn’t even climb down because it would be too dangerous.”

“Might work. It could buy us a few days’ rest, at least.” Eric continued to rub his chin and he nodded. “We’d have to make it look like it was done with real bombs instead of magic. I don’t want to tip our hand that we have you as an asset.”

“I’m an asset?”

“Of course. And, by the way, I just found out from a friend at the FBI that they are using someone they call a ‘magic consultant’ on an occult serial murder case.”

“What the heck is a magic consultant?”

“Supposedly, he can sense when other people are using magic. The FBI has hired psychics before on tough cases, but this is the first time they’ve ever used somebody like this, that I know of.”

“Well, he must not be very good, or they’d be knocking on my door by now. The spells I’ve been doing are really powerful, and they’re like a beacon to other sorcerers. Fred’s magic is like that, too, for witches.”

“Still,” Eric shrugged, “I thought you might want to know, in case anybody comes snooping around.

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