Hired Luck by Mel Todd

Author:Mel Todd [Todd, Mel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781950287062
Publisher: Bad Ash Publishing
Published: 2020-07-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

By controlling knowledge, you control people. When you are dealing with people capable of destroying lives, buildings, governments with a flick of a finger, control becomes very important. ~ Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov

Getting up Monday wasn't any different than any other day, but once again I was on the morning shift. Figured. The bonus to the day was the email from Ruby EMS terminating my employee status and saying they would deposit my final check that afternoon. It didn't make me feel better, but at least I still had a bit of money. I dug through what I'd brought from my apartment and found a French press and some decent coffee. If I had to do this, it would not be in an under-caffeinated state. They slipped in my small backpack and I headed out the door as I heard Jo start her shower.

I walked to the bus stop, having made a note of where I needed to go, and caught the bus there. This time I wore my hat, and I didn't care that it probably looked ridiculous. With my hair brushed forward, while you might see the edge of one of my marks, you didn't see all of them. I felt better but had already decided on hoodies as soon as it cooled down at all.

I spent the ride reviewing what I'd learned, which I figured everyone else already knew, so it would just help me not ask the obvious. But I couldn't figure out how learning about ritual magic would help. From everything I read, it was personal; no two mages would do the same thing to achieve the same result. So while we might suspect they were using ritual magic, we wouldn't be able to replicate it because we weren't focusing on the same thing. And even if we were, the symbols used wouldn't mean the same thing to us.

Then you add in the fact that the author had referenced a study saying the current breakdown of magic was wrong, and everyone had access to at least 1%, figure a weak hedgemage. It was something so small no machine could test it. But that meant even the most magic free-human could use ritual magic if they focused and were very specific and careful. It made it scary, yet also rare that it succeeded.

Then why is this person even trying?

I thought about it as I headed in, trying to figure out what they wanted badly enough to do that. Or, maybe it wasn't that. Why did I do things? Fear, Need, Desire. I couldn't come up with any other primal reasons.

This is stupid, this isn't my job. I have no training for this.

At this point I hadn't even thought about what I might like to study for. That was yet another stack of paperwork I was waiting to get. All the suggestions and ways various skills could be used. I'd think about that later. I had some time, and I wanted to make the right choice, though the idea of testing out a few classes ripped across my head.

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