Spirited Words (The Freelancers Book 4) by Lee Isserow

Author:Lee Isserow [Isserow, Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ABAM.info
Published: 2017-07-04T16:00:00+00:00

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It took them an hour to get out of town, following the main road until they found a large sinkhole in the middle of the street. The tarmac was lifted up around it, long wild grass growing out of cracks amidst plumes of thick black smoke that funnelled up to the heavens above.

“This it?”

“I reckon so.”

Ana began casting to blow the hell out of the thing, when Rafe grabbed her hands to stop the destruction before it could start. “Would you please stop exploding things?”

“What is the point in you teaching me stuff if I don't get to use it?”

“I teach it to you so you can use it when necessary, not as a quick fix when you're bored.”

“This is pretty boring.”

“It's also not going to kill the damn thing. . . Did you read the―”

“Yes, I read the damn book.”

“Skimmed it or―”

“Read it!”

“So you know that the enenra―”

“Is a smoke monster, and doesn't give a damn about fire―but it will disperse it!”

“Dispersing it isn't going to help us here. . . It'll just put itself back together.”

“So, what do we do? Ask it nicely?”

Rafe stared at her, trying his damnedest not to nod, but found himself doing so anyway.

“Really? You said nothing about asking things nicely. . . If I knew we were translocating half way around the world just to have a chit-chat, I would have told you to do this one solo.”

“I can't do it solo.”

“Oh. . . Because. . . You're weak like a kitten?” she scoffed.

He took the jab on the chin, and sighed, eyes skimming the road they stood on. “Because the enenra won't appear to me. . .”

She stared at him for a moment, flicking through the pages of the book in her mind's eye. The enenra only appeared to those that were pure of heart.

“You think I'm pure of heart?” she chuckled.

“Purer than I am. . .”

“I'm not pure of anything―”

“You are,” he insisted. “You are a pure, good spirit―”

“You know I'm not a virgin, right?”

“This isn't about virginity, it's about. . . not having a black mark on your soul.” He broke off eye contact, staring at the crack in the road. “You know I've had to do things in my work, things I regret, things I wish I could take back―”

“Yeah yeah yeah, I know and I'm over it.” She shot him a kind smile and started to march towards the crack in the road.

“Do you know―”

“Yeah, I know what I'm doing. . . Have some bloody faith!”

She leaned over to look down into the chasm below. Smoke billowed into her eyes, and she cast to whip it out of her way, giving her a clearer view of the mine tunnels that lay under the street. It looked as though she was staring right into the depths of hell. A wild fire raging, feeding off the coal in the mine, burning and roaring with elemental rage.

“Hello?” she shouted. “Mister smoke man?”

The fire belched a thick cloud of smoke that churned

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