Sorcerer Rising by E Nathan Sisk

Author:E Nathan Sisk
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2013-11-15T05:00:00+00:00

The top floor was used entirely for Ben’s office and the small sitting room in front of it.

Beatrice, his old battle-axe of a secretary, glared at me over her spectacles. “Go on in, Virgil.”

“Nice to see you too, Beatrice,” I said, doing just that. We had never really gotten on all that well.

I pushed open the door and was greeted with Ben’s office. Maybe you noticed a bit of a theme with the building. Ben didn’t like to display wealth. He felt it was beneath him. His office reflected that as well.

It was big, it was regal, and it was certainly sophisticated, but opulent was not the word I would’ve used to describe it. It was more a museum than an office. I had never fully explored it and to be honest, I didn’t know if he had either.

Display cases contained artifacts, specimen, mystical doodads, and things I couldn’t even begin to describe. He had weapons and armor from across the world and spanning the universes, ore, wood, and plant life from every corner of the Aether, stuffed specimens of natural, supernatural, and Aetherial variety, and every other thing you could dream of.

Over a collection of Fay sculptures sat a row of leprechaun skulls. He hunted them. Against one wall there was a fifteen foot tall golem made from geodes of amethyst. In one corner there was an honest-to-God dragon skull, its polished black surface glittering in the darkness, angry, red light glimmering just under the surface. There were books and research equipment, things that were still and things that moved, things that glowed, hummed, watched, and listened.

One of the few uncluttered spaces was a shelf, upon which were placed seven small jars. Each was filled with soil. A scoop from each of the worlds Ben had discovered. They were his pride and joy.

And in the back, behind his battered and weather stained desk, was fixed a massive, swimming pool sized aquarium. It took up the entire wall and went back so far I couldn’t see the other side. Of course, the sharks didn’t help with that either. Twenty or thirty of the sleek, silent predators patrolled its waters, their empty, black eyes watching everything.

I walked to his desk. He wasn’t behind it, wasn’t in the office at all that I could tell. Probably just wanted to let me squirm. This was either about the warehouse or about the Arcus. Either way, it wasn’t bound to be pleasant. The last time I had seen him, he was practicing his boxing form on my ribs while two others held my arms.

In an instant, the behavior of the sharks changed. One moment they were all swimming around in a big circle, one big happy school of bloodthirsty fish, the next it was chaos.

A piece of the coral detached itself from the miniature reef built into the floor and floated up toward the sharks. They swam faster, a renewed burst of energy as they attempted to evade the object. The coral’s color began to change, its form beginning to lose its shape.

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