Midnight Web: A Moonshadow Bay Novel, Book 2 by Yasmine Galenorn

Author:Yasmine Galenorn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nightqueen Enterprises LLC

Chapter Eleven

I played with my phone. I needed to contact Clarence, but I was afraid. I wasn’t sure why, except that the Covenant of Chaos was a dangerous organization and I wanted to stay as far away from them as I could. But they were pervasive here in Moonshadow Bay, and one of these days I’d run up against them.

“You want me to talk to him?” Hank asked.

I flashed him a rueful smile. “My nervousness shows that much?”

“Kind of,” he said, then stood to stretch.

I had to admit, the man was built. Burly, bald, and beautiful in a badass way. He was strong as an ox, and he had the power to bilocate and move around on the astral plane. His magic was grounded in the cerebral realm, and he was fairly advanced, from what I could see.

“I don’t know if I’ve ever met one of the chaos magicians,” I said.

“You already know one,” he said. “I never joined the Covenant, but I worked with chaos magic for years before I settled down to specialize in bilocation and astral work.”

“You? I didn’t know that.”

Hank leaned forward. “Rowan’s right in that the Covenant of Chaos is a dangerous group—but they aren’t out to overthrow Moonshadow Bay, and they aren’t out to destroy the world. They just work with energies that most of us with better sense feel are best left alone. Chaos is a heady power. In some ways, it’s stronger than order, just like water is stronger than earth. Water can carve channels through solid ground. Chaos can fracture order in the same way—it’s nebulous, without form.”

I stared at him, shocked to hear that he had worked with chaos magic. “Why didn’t you join them? What made you turn away?”

Hank glanced over at Tad, who nodded. “I ran into some trouble about ten years ago. I thought I was the cause of an abandoned building collapsing on the outside of town. I didn’t realize there were two teens hiding out in it. One of them made it out. The other…” He paused, and for the first time since I’d met him, Hank looked about ready to cry.

“Oh my gods, what happened?” I couldn’t imagine Hank, as rough as he might seem on the outside, being so careless.

“There was very little to link me to the incident, except that I had been practicing chaos magic in the area and I’d done my best to bring that building down. And I thought that my magic had done the trick. I was proud as a peacock, until I found out there had been two teens inside. When I realized that one of them died, it tore me to pieces.”

I ducked my head. The pain was evident on his face, and I could feel his anger pouring out of him—he was angry at himself. “What happened?”

“I was going to turn myself in when the news arrived that inspectors discovered that the supporting beam system of the building had rotted away. So it was nature, not my magic that had brought that building down.

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