Enchanted, Inc. by Shanna Swendson

Author:Shanna Swendson
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 0345484452
Published: 2005-04-27T04:00:00+00:00

I glanced around to see if any of the other people in the park were staring at us. Even though I knew there was magic in place to keep people from seeing Sam or us interacting with Sam, it still felt funny to talk to a gargoyle in public.

But everyone continued eating and talking, paying us very little attention as we got up and walked away, Sam flying just ahead of us.

“Sam, what’s going on?” I asked. I couldn’t help but worry. Maybe I was in trouble for taking Merlin outside.

“They got their hands on one of that guy’s spells. Palmer’s about to check it out. He thought you’d want to be there, boss. Katie-bug, too.” He glanced over his shoulder with a smirk. “Apparently, we need a professional opinion on the marketing and packaging. And we need to make sure there’s nothing hidden in it.” It was nice to have an excuse to tag along without having to come up with one on my own.

Merlin moved pretty quickly for a man more than a thousand years old. In fact, I was the one lagging behind him and Sam. With his wings, Sam had an unfair advantage. We reached the building, and Sam took his usual post on the awning. Merlin and I went inside and straight to the R&D department.

Owen and Jake—this time without a shredded pants leg—were in Owen’s lab, both their heads bent over something that lay between them on a table. They looked up as we entered. “Mr. Mervyn, Katie,” Owen greeted us.

“So, this is it,” Merlin said, leaning over to look at the booklet on the table.

“Yeah, found it in that hole-in-the-wall dive charm-and-record shop in the East Village,” Jake said.

“I’m afraid to ask what he was doing there during office hours,” Owen said dryly. I thought the fact that Jake was wearing a New York Dolls T-shirt was a pretty good clue, but Owen didn’t strike me as a punk fan. I only knew because of a college roommate who was the reason I ended up moving off campus with Marcia, Gemma, and Connie, which eventually led to me moving to New York. I owed a lot to the punk movement.

Merlin made “Hmmm” sounds as he flipped through the spell book. “Well, then,” he said as he closed it and handed it to me. “What do you think, Katie?”

I assumed he meant the packaging, as I couldn’t tell him the first thing about magic. I turned it over in my hands. “Well, for starters, this Idris guy doesn’t have a marketing department. He must have done this with his home computer and an ink-jet printer.” It didn’t even look like he was trying to market his products. Then again, the contents would sell itself to the kind of person who’d be interested in this sort of thing.

“Let others do your dirty work for you,” the package said on the front in big letters. In another font, in smaller letters, it added, “Use unsuspecting normals as your personal slaves.

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