Fire Magic by Holly Hook

Author:Holly Hook [Hook, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1548510637
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

It felt almost too easy. Either Beatrix had just hired the worst doorman in the world or there was something else going on here. I kept the Hello Kitty cane close to my side, aware that it probably wouldn't fool anyone in this establishment. The dwarf gasped for breath as Xavier and I entered a dark hallway that had zero lighting. My gray vision snapped back into place and I realized there was a spiral stairway at the end of the hall, one with a sign above it that read TO THE PIT. A jagged arrow pointed down into the depths.

“Good name,” I said as the dwarf closed the door behind us.

“I can't see anything,” Xavier said. “I don't think a lot of humans come here.”

“There are some here,” I said. “I smell them.” A mixture of turkey dinners, spaghetti, microwave fare and pasta floated up through the stairwell along with the adrenaline of nerves. There was also the unmistakable sewer smell that told me there was at least one demon down here.

The scents only got stronger as we descended the metal steps. “I don't like this,” Xavier said.

“Neither do I.” I checked to make sure the doorman wasn't following us. Check. I couldn't even pick up his scent anymore. “I wonder if everyone gets in by threatening that dwarf. He is a dwarf, right?”

“Dwarves usually have beards and they don't live in cities. Well, the men do. That was a redcap. They can be nasty. We need to watch ourselves.”

I'd never learn all the species of the world that I now inhabited. The smells got stronger the more we descended. There was some red light far below that made me wonder for a moment if we had stepped into the Infernal Dimension, but this light was electric and changed to green, then to yellow, then to red again. I could see it through the grating of the steps. Electro played down below, loud and deafening. It blocked out every other sound that I could have heard but the smells were enough. This place was very inhabited.

“We follow the sewer smell to Beatrix,” I said. “I hope.” I remembered the incubus coming down here with that woman. I hoped the incubi and succubi would be off in another part of the club with their dates, away from everything else. I couldn't imagine that any other way.

When we reached the bottom, it turned out I was right. There was a large bar in the middle of the room along with two dance floors where a variety of Abnormals were dancing. A burly werewolf man was serving all kinds of drinks in the bar and a Normal man was also sitting there. There were bite marks on his neck. He had been catering in a different way. A balcony encircled the whole place and there were several closed doors up there. I could only imagine what was going on behind them.

“This place gives me the creeps,” Xavier said. “Let's find the office as soon as we can.

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