Magical Midlife Battle (Leveling Up Book 8) by K.F. Breene

Author:K.F. Breene [Breene, K.F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hazy Dawn Press, Inc.
Published: 2023-09-18T16:00:00+00:00

EIGHTEEN

Jessie

I listened to Austin and Kingsley negotiate the various placements of their defenses. It was like watching a chess match. I hoped one day I could be that good at organizing a defense.

In the end, it was determined we’d have a couple of our people in the shifter town, and the rest would be posted along the borders of the territory. That was probably for the best. Our fliers able to cover more area and the townspeople wouldn’t need to worry about strangers watching their goings-on.

That topic out of the way, Kingsley moved the conversation on to what we’d do in the event more mages were caught assessing the pack defenses.

“Did you check out the metallic element by the river where the mage was captured?” Austin asked as Kingsley gestured to his shifters. The beta came forward holding a stack of papers balanced on a laptop.

“We did. We’ll get to that in a moment.” Kingsley set the computer on the edge of the table and handed back the stack of papers.

In the corner of the room, a projector blared to life, flashing a spreadsheet across the wall. The projector guy pulled down a screen to better showcase the image.

“That’s a list of all the attacks we’ve had, where they took place, when, and a summary of each.” Kingsley motioned James around the table. “This is a report in paper form of everything you’ll see on the slides. Now, as you can see, most of the attacks were made by two or three mages. We usually catch them shortly after they cross the perimeter, except in the cases of deep night. It is rare for there to only be one, so we’re thinking one or two probably got away yesterday.”

The slide flipped as I took a packet from James.

“This next slide shows the severity of the various attacks. As you can see, most of these mages ran after they were found out. But a few of these instances have resulted in severe altercations where we’ve had wounded shifters and one death. The worst outcomes were always against three mages.”

The next slide flicked onto the screen, and I could feel the impatience from Austin and also a low hum of emotion from a gargoyle connection, nothing dire. I homed in anyway, not incredibly interested in Kingsley’s analysis of when the mages had struck and his predictions on when they might come again. The world fell away and that connection came into focus. Tristan. He was in this room with us, feeling frustrated and impatient.

Clearly he and Austin had heard a different account from that mage I hadn’t actually killed.

That had been a relief, both because if I was going to hurt someone, I’d like to mean to, and also because they’d gotten valuable information from him before he kicked the bucket. Close call. We needed a better system for this stuff, but we were all relieved with how it had worked out.

“Alpha, if I may?” Austin waited for Kingsley to nod. “You

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