Sorcerer's Sabotage Field Manual: An Action Packed Urban Fantasy Thriller (Faerie Protective Services Inc Book 20) by McKinney Robert

Author:McKinney, Robert
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McKinney Can't Press
Published: 2023-05-02T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

With the Lady Chal’s declaration screamed for all to hear, Tati and I didn’t waste time. We ran. Splashing, slipping, sloshing, we ran across the wind scattered food court at the front of the theme park and deeper into the depths of Rocket Land.

Terror pounded through my chest as we sprinted away - Tati in the lead due to her superior quickness but clearly aimless in her direction.

“Tati!” I shouted as I chased after her. “Wait up!”

A roar of wind and rumble of thunder, far too close for comfort, nearly deafened me as I shouted. The sound was so large that it felt like a wool blanket intent on smothering me under the weight of its embrace.

Maybe that's why Tati didn’t hear me. Or maybe she did, her fear overrode everything else. Fear or not, I couldn’t let her keep sprinting headfirst into the hedgehog briarpatch of traps that my people had set up in the park throughout the last few hours.

I needed to reach her, and do it fast, despite my absolute lack of quality in the department of speed.

For a second, I racked my brain as I splashed through the steadily rising flood waters in Tati’s wake until I came up with the most obvious solution that could maybe kill two birds with one stone.

About a year ago, I’d made a deal with something that pretty much defied understanding. From what I could tell, the thing that I, and many others, deemed as the dreaming soul of Faerie was a kind of hive mind made up from the memory of every spell that had ever been cast. And while I still didn’t quite understand the ins and outs of what the fuck that whispering chorus of voices actually was, I’d still been able to strike a bargain with it that had formed the bedrock of my success, and survival, in recent months.

It turns out that the dreaming soul of Faerie, the beating heart of known magic, was a raving, massive, unapologetic fan of none other than William Shakespeare himself. Though I didn’t know the details, I had a feeling that the Great Bard had stumbled into the land of Faerie at least once in his lifetime. And unlike many poor mortal souls who’d done the same from time to time, he’d staved off madness long enough to use the wonders he saw in the wide land of magic as inspiration for plays that even now ensnared a world’s worth of imaginations.

I’d been just one of those souls when I’d made my own first foray into the land of Faerie. Despite all of the horrible things I’d seen in this place, I’d always helped ease the trauma by reading through my pocket sized, miniscule font printed copy of the Great Bard’s complete works. I’d read those sonnets and plays so many times over that I’d memorized most by heart. And when I’d finally taken the plunge and started to teach myself the language of Faerie, I’d started by translating those poems and plays from english to elven tongues.

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