Pride Fall by Daniel Potter

Author:Daniel Potter [Potter, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: action adventure, anthropomorphic, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, furry, urban fantasy
ISBN: 9781954206991
Google: EXoLzgEACAAJ
Publisher: Daniel Potter
Published: 2020-11-17T19:11:57.374007+00:00

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What do you do when you want to escape into a home which is heavily warded against teleportation magic? You have your exit point 20 feet above the building. Right where those anti teleportation wards fade out. Also, since there is a distinct possibility that an escape portal might be used right before losing consciousness or some other condition that prevented you from avoiding the considerable damage that concrete can cause to a body after 20 feet worth of gravitic acceleration, we purposely put the tiny little stitch in reality that our portal targeted directly over the MGM Grand’s rooftop pool.

In Vegas, people really like their pools. Being the paranoid people we are and not wanting to belly-flop smack onto a tourist who was already pushing the weight limit of their floaty, we had attempted to ban said tourists from the rooftop pool.

This had not worked. Tourists, particularly those who stay in the upper levels of the residential tower and can see the pool, are overwhelmed with a desire to go there. They will ignore any warnings, jimmy locked doors and even climb out windows to get to that forbidden pool. And once one gets there, the others show up. They’re like ants after your sandwich. After about 2 months of this, we gave up, staffed the pool with a spell dog lifeguard 24 hours a day whose job is: if he smells a spell from above him to yell “SHARK!” at the top of his lungs and clear out the pool, because he has about 30 seconds before the splashdown of an angry mage and familiar who are known to raise the temperature of the water to the boiling point if they're not paying attention.

All in all, a normal day at the office when you work for magi. I have to say I am a mite curious about what the lifeguard said to his buddy when it started raining lions. I like to imagine it started with a few cubs. The crowd had just started confusedly responding to the lifeguard’s frantic demands for everyone to get out of the pool. Probably by exchanging confused glances. However, after the first cub comes spinning down from the sky like a fuzzy fire spinner gone terribly wrong and hits the water with a sploosh, they realize that something has gone wrong. It’s after the second or third sploosh that the first feminine scream of utter panic undulates through the air. Many others follow suit, men and women, as the first four-hundred-pound mama lion hits the water with a splash that makes your cousin Jerry’s cannonball look like a pebble. This first brave mama surfaces in a panic, looking for her babies, who are paddling for the edge of the pool like their little lives depend on it, because of instinct, but also because they do. The first mama doesn’t realize this until the second one splashes down next to her, the second’s tail whipping her hard on the nose as she does so.

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