Key to Magic 01 Orphan by H. Jonas Rhynedahll

Author:H. Jonas Rhynedahll
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2010-10-10T05:00:00+00:00

SEVENTEEN

"Catch him, Mar!” Waleck shouted.

Needing no prompting, Mar was already in motion. His lunge slammed his full weight into the student's side, and he grabbed the boy in a rigid hug, twisting to throw the other's slight frame to the floor. Mar fell with the boy, trying to pin him down with his greater weight.

Bucking and kicking wildly, the boy managed to strike Mar on the side of the head with one of his fists. Angered by the sharp pain, Mar struck back with an open-handed slap, buffeting the cap from the other’s head. A cascade of long brown hair escaped, shrouding them both as they rolled in a tangle across the tiles.

Mar managed to snare the other’s thin wrists as their fight lodged them into the corner formed by a bookshelf and the floor. Tucking his knees to protect his groin, he leveraged his shoulders to trap his opponent beneath him, lowering his head to forestall head butts. As he did so, his face fell close to hers and he felt her rapid breath burn across his cheek.

Mar only realized it just then, that he fought a girl and not a boy, because that breath was undeniably feminine. Gradually, the other peculiarities of the struggle began to impinge on his awareness. For a moment, the girl grew still, their faces juxtaposed.

Mar looked into eyes as dark as midnight.

Then she twisted suddenly, trying to bite his ear.

Lunging back, he rolled off his shoulder and got his feet under him. Standing quickly, he hauled the girl up beside him. Unrelenting, she continued to jerk and twist violently, trying to break his hold. Rankled, he spun her about and twisted her hands toward her shoulder blades. With a suppressed gasp, the girl subsided.

Turning, Mar discovered that Waleck had not been as successful in his own contest.

Swatting impotently with his jacket, the old man attempted to extinguish the fire, but the intense, furnace-hot flames had all but consumed the book and were spreading to the tabletop with a frighteningly unnatural speed. In the scarce moment Mar watched, the entire length of the table caught fire, the reaching sears licking against the shelves to either side. Billowing smoke began to fill the air as the fire spread, shooting up in a broad, crooked column to the dome high above.

Waleck was driven back a step by the heat, then a reluctant pace, then forced to retreat farther and farther until he was compelled to relinquish his futile efforts altogether. The old man cast down the smoldering jacket and darted back from the scalding heat, hurrying to where Mar and his prisoner stood.

"It is beyond control," the old man announced unnecessarily, stopping a moment to register the sex of the figure at Mar's side. Other than this short pause, the wasteminer evidenced no great surprise at this development.

"Bring her, Mar. She has the information we need, and we have no time to question her now. We must be away before the Guard arrives." With that, Waleck started off at a swift trot in the direction of the entrance.

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