Hyperion: A ContemporaryUrban Fantasy Adventure by Robert M. Kerns

Author:Robert M. Kerns [Kerns, Robert M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knightsfall Press

Chapter

Nineteen

Wainwright Grove

Hornbeam, Illinois

28 July 2025, 11:45am (Central)

For the past couple days, Jake had found himself at odds for what to do next. Practice—at least the form it had taken under Isabel’s direction—was a thing of the past. The techniques imparted to him by his birth parents far and away superseded anything he might learn from a Sphere-based mage. He didn’t even feel particularly motivated to design new effects in his grimoire.

What was the point when he could simply will something to happen?

All of which meant that he needed to find some way to fill his afternoon on his own, since Gerald and Emilia were in town either at his clinic or at the hospital.

Part of him felt like he should maybe visit a few hospitals around the country as the Unknown Mage… burst-heal every patient before vanishing to somewhere else. The idea made him grin… but he was afraid of training people to expect it. On the one side, he didn’t want people feeling entitled to his time and abilities… but on the other… if he had it within him to help people—save their lives, maybe—shouldn’t he do that?

He didn’t like that he still felt as though he didn’t know his place in the world. He didn’t like the uncertainty.

He had no doubt what his parents would tell him… birth or adoptive. Neither set wanted to hear him say he owed anyone anything. His birth parents were even more saucy about it than his adoptive parents. He’d seen glimpses of how sorcerers back then viewed the world a couple times when they’d almost said that the people of the world owed him and not the other way around.

He wasn’t quite sure how the world’s population owed him anything, and his birth parents—on the whole—were very grounded and down-to-Earth people. But there had been a few times that an almost-unconscious certainty of their innate superiority slipped through.

Jake didn’t subscribe to the thought that he was in any way superior to anyone else. More capable? Undoubtedly. But that didn’t mean better.

His thoughts carried him along the walk, up the steps, and through the front door of the house. He wasn’t paying much attention to his surroundings until he arrived in the great room. Bianca sat on one of the couches, watching a segment on a prominent children’s hospital.

It took all his willpower to keep from smiling at the fairly new television. After trooping into Hornbeam to watch the coverage of his confrontation with the Elementalist at Marci’s diner, both Bianca and Gerald had arrived at the conclusion they maybe should have a TV at the house. He and Gerald had hung it and wired it after Bianca had coaxed the house into growing a hard-point for the wall mount that wouldn’t harm the living creature that the house was.

More than once, Jake had wondered if there was a dryad somewhere close that called the massive house-tree home or was bonded to it at least, but he hadn’t worked up the courage to ask yet.

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