Double Backed Magic (Rise of Magic Book 6) by Stefon Mears

Author:Stefon Mears [Mears, Stefon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thousand Faces Publishing
Published: 2020-07-26T07:00:00+00:00

Lunch hadn’t been nearly the trial Donal had expected. It seemed that either three days of Donal’s hiding in his cabin — or perhaps some skillful work from Rowan — had convinced Ms. Bueno to ease back on the conversational throttle.

Instead she’d been friendly and sociable, talking about her native Brazil, and asking about the places Donal and Rowan had been, the things they’d seen.

The conversation ran easily among the three of them, with no one demanding or denying the spotlight. And no business allowed.

Donal did, however, watch what he said. Just in case.

By the time lunch was finished, Donal almost felt guilty for having spent the vast majority of the trip in his cabin. Though neither Rowan nor Ms. Bueno — Alessandra. She’d insisted he call her Alessandra — seemed to blame him for spending the trip in meditation.

One of the advantages of being a magician, he supposed. People seemed to take it for granted that he spent a lot of time meditating and experimenting — even more than he actually did.

Who knew? Perhaps spending the trip in his cabin even added a little to the mystique that Magister Ronaldo Machado had once insisted Donal work on developing.

All right, some of his professors encouraged it as well, but it had been Magister Machado who first really drove the point home to Donal, during a flight aboard the Horizon Cusp.

In any event, after lunch, Rowan and Alessandra both said they needed to change before landing. Donal didn’t understand why. They were both wearing perfectly good suits — Alessandra’s a smoky gray and Rowan’s a lovely teal.

Donal himself had no intention of changing. He was wearing a pale blue, long-sleeved airsilk shirt, with good black airsilk slacks and fine black leather loafers that matched his belt. A combination that was practically the modern equivalent of wizard’s robes.

He did run a comb through his hair. He’d been paying more attention to his hair since Morna became a fixture in his life. She was forever asking to brush it for him, though brushing wasn’t really the right word. When Morna ran her fingers through his hair, it was not only a marvelous sensation, he came out of it looking as though he’d paid a stylist a lot of money.

The results had made him at least want to be better about keeping his hair combed.

Yeoman Kerrigan made sure Donal’s bags were handled, and finally he was brought down to the docking bay, where a shuttle would take him, Rowan, and Alessandra down to the planet’s surface.

The docking bay was much smaller than that of the last Terran Naval ship Donal had been aboard, but then, that ship had been a cruiser. This was just a gunboat.

The docking bay was large enough to house two shuttles, the Galileo and the Copernicus. Identical in their white, flat-bottomed, boring pretense of being seafaring vessels. It was a wonder they weren’t the same gray as everything else on the ship.

For that matter, it was a wonder that Terran Naval crewmen didn’t go mad on these ships.

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