Ritual Magic by Eileen Wilks

Author:Eileen Wilks [Wilks, Eileen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: english eBooks
ISBN: 0425263363
Amazon: B00A30S62G
Barnesnoble: B00A30S62G
Goodreads: 16078492
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2013-09-02T22:00:00+00:00

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CYNNA needed to go outside to set her circle, since she couldn’t draw on carpet. First Lily notified her guards. They—Santos, Joe, and Andy today—were waiting for her in the public reception area. They’d prefer to be a lot closer, but she’d tried bringing them into the offices once. Lily could have put up with the comments and funny looks she got for having bodyguards, but the men were just too much of a distraction. Because they were lupi, yes, but also because they weren’t FBI. Civilians aren’t supposed to hang around in law enforcement offices unless they’re witnesses or under arrest.

She notified Santos of where they were going and why. That was part of the deal, that she let them know if she was going to stick her nose out the door. Cullen had already headed for the conference room door; Lily, Fielding, and Cynna followed.

The Big A ran into them in the hall. “Fielding. Why don’t I have that wit report yet?”

“Uh—I thought, after making that mistake about Agent Yu’s Gift, I’d better learn more about how the Unit operates. I wanted to—”

Ackleford rolled his eyes. “Get me that wit report.”

“Yes, sir.”

Ackleford shoved open the men’s room door and went in.

Fielding said quickly, “I’ll be right out, okay? I’ve almost got the report done. I’ll be just a minute.”

“He’s eager,” Cynna commented.

“He’s new,” Lily said dryly. “He’s still trying to get on the Big A’s good side. He hasn’t figured out that the Big A doesn’t have a good side. Why do you need a circle?” She’d seen Cynna cast for a pattern plenty of times without setting a circle first.

“There’s a wee chance that if Miriam is able to banish the contagion from your officer, it will sort of rebound into the fillings.”

“Mind you,” Cullen put in, “it’s a very slim chance. The resonance would be very slight, considering how little the fillings had to do with generating the contagion and, I suspect, with containing it until it was called or decided to move out. If the—”

“Don’t explain.” Lily looked at Cynna as they turned into the hall that led to the stairs. They’d go out the back way, which was really on the side of the building, but everyone called it going out the back. “Is this going to be safe for you?”

“Ought to be. I’m not impervious to magic the way you are, but I’ve got pretty heavy-duty protections these days. And I set one hell of a circle. I won’t open the baggie until the circle’s set.”

Just how much power did Cynna have available as Rhej? She probably shouldn’t ask. Rhejes kept a lot of things secret. “How much power do you have now, anyway? On, say, a scale of one to dragon.”

Cynna grinned. “Less than Sam, certainly.”

She hadn’t said less than a dragon, but less than Sam, who was the oldest of the dragons, and presumably the most powerful. “Does that mean—”

“It means,” Cullen said, “that your question can’t be answered. In the first place, magic isn’t electricity.

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