Mage Dissolution by Christopher George

Author:Christopher George [George, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BluA
Published: 2016-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

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“I’ve got May locked away in a store room,” Tychus announced gruffly, “I hit her with a disrupt spell, she’s not going anywhere for a while.”

We had teleported out of the basement and were holed up on the top level of the building that I was supposed to take the helicopter from.

“So what happened?” Renee asked, looking critically at Tychus. “How did she manage to grab Devon?”

“She teleported him,” Tychus said.

“I guessed that,” she said dryly.

“Then hit the whole roof with a shading spell. By the time I got out of range she was long gone. I had no way of tracking her.’ He turned to me, “If you hadn’t set off that awareness blast I never would have found you.”

“Effective trick,” I said.

“She was one of the Primea’s key operatives,” he said sourly, “I should have expected it.”

“Primea’s operatives?” I queried.

“Used to hunt down and negate rogue Mages,” Tychus explained.

“Why wasn’t she sent after me earlier?”

“The Primea wouldn’t allow it.”

It was becoming increasingly clear that there was one hell of a lot of internal politics going on and the Primea hadn’t remained as impartial as she should have been. She obviously had been supporting her son in some of his goals, or at least attempting to thwart Victor’s.

“The question still remains, what are we going to do with her?” Renee said.

“Nothing,” I replied, “we’re going to let her go.”

“Let her go?” Both Renee and Tychus were incredulous.

“Sure, why not?”

“Because she tried to kill you?” Tychus replied sarcastically.

“…and she now knows that she can’t.” I finished.

“That’s beside the point,” Renee said, “She’s not going to stop coming after you.”

“She can’t hurt me.”

“That’s not the point either!” Renee snapped, “…and not necessarily true!”

“So... what do we do? Kill her?”.

“No, of course not!”

“Then what? Keep her imprisoned for the rest of her life? Ask her nicely not to kill me please?”

Renee didn’t answer. My sarcasm obviously wasn’t appreciated; I’d pay for that later. But clearly she couldn’t think of a better solution.

“That’s a conversation for another day,” Tychus said firmly. “Now we need to determine what we’re going to do next.”

“Do about what?” Renee asked.

“About the Primeacy. With the position now likely to be open soon we’re going to have a war on our hands.”

Renee nodded. “We’re going to need to move fast. My grandfather is probably already rallying his votes.”

“How does this work? Who votes? How do they vote?” I normally didn’t pay attention to politics, in truth I really didn’t care who the Primea was, provided that it wasn’t Victor. But he was the most likely candidate now that Marcus had disappeared.

“Only the senior Masters vote,” Renee said.

“And who determines who a Master is?”

“We don’t have a rigid structure around that,” Tychus said, “You’re a Master if no one is willing to stand against the claim.”

“So I could claim to be a Master and vote for myself?”

“Probably,” Renee said. “What’s your point? You thinking of running?

“You can’t,” said Tychus, “you’re an outcast.”

“Don’t worry, I’m not planning on running,” I grinned, “Renee is.

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