High Steaks (Freelance Familiars Book 3) by Daniel Potter

Author:Daniel Potter [Potter, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780996594042
Publisher: Fallen Kitten Productions
Published: 2017-12-09T22:00:00+00:00

26

Feather-Light Games

Hopping up on a car confirmed that the white, bullet-ridden Capy Bro's limo sat inside a nest of wards. O'Meara! I thought-shouted down into my link.

Nothing coherent responded. I dived through the bond. O'Meara's mind bubbled with activity, but a thin blue force held it within her subconscious. There was simply no conscious thought whatsoever. Not sleep; a coma.

"Let her go!" A roar tore from my throat as I slammed back into my body. "You are not damseling my magus!"

She hopped on to a nearby white Honda Fit. "Tsk, tsk. Maybe you should have been paying more attention to your magus? Or made sure she had some basic wards up before her nap? For someone without any House to object to charges, it's very sloppy behavior." Feather radiated smugness from every follicle of her body.

"Let her go, Feather! We can talk about the bond after you let her go." A hiss accented my words, but my rage was mostly self-directed. I'd let her little flirtations distract me and drive off Rudy, once again assuming some sort of common decency among magi.

"I don't want to talk. I want a demonstration. This is my town, Thomas, and I don't back impotent tricksters. Let's see some of that mojo that you scared Death off with, kitten."

"Let her go and I'll show you some major mojo."

"Oh, I don't doubt that. You know what they called her during the war? The Ashbringer. That was all that was left after she fought. Acres of black ash were all that remained of villages and armies both. Her troops were the Burnt Legion. They marched into battle already covered in soot. I bet the pair of you are a very formidable team in a fight."

Attempting to not be obvious about it, I bored into the working of the wards. They had been solidly constructed and bolstered with a bit of tass anchored to a silver wire that surrounded the limo. They did not project down into the concrete. Break the wire and the ward would collapse.

"I'm waiting, Thomas," Feather sing-songed and faded out of sight.

"There he is!" A new voice echoed through the garage. I turned to see a group of five men with very shiny black shoes burst out of the door I had come in. One of them carried a small dog by the handle of a harness and burst into blue light. Two of the other men had telescoping poles with wire nooses at the end.

"And who are those guys?" I asked.

A disembodied purr rolled out around me. "That's a question. If you have any power at all, they're lunch. If you're a puffed-up kitten, then they're here to make sure you're put into a safe place."

Biting back a string of useless curses, I dived off the car I stood on and raced down the aisle. Desperately, I took stock of what I had. A gun stored in an interdimensional gullet, a very minor telekinetic spell, and who knew how many fireworks were stuffed in the pocket of my harness.

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