The Doorway God by Tom Early

Author:Tom Early [Early, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult
ISBN: 978-1-63533-778-5
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2017-11-14T05:00:00+00:00

WHEN I got back to Obsidian, Sam was waiting for me in the common room, a sheet of paper held in her hand. Her face was tight, meaning that she was either angry beyond reason, which I was seriously hoping she wasn’t, or she was stressed about something to the point that her focus had narrowed to it and just about nothing else. I was used to seeing that face on her when she had an important martial arts evaluation coming up back in high school, not here. Regardless, as soon as she caught sight of me she marched straight up, grabbed my arm, and pulled me upstairs.

“Mind telling me what’s going on?” I asked her as we headed to… my room, apparently. “You know, before I have to unlock the door and all that.”

“I’m not going to hurt you, relax,” Sam said, and I was pathetically grateful to see her familiar eye roll again. “All is forgiven, we were both dumbasses, move along now.”

“Great,” I said, relieved. “But now I’m guessing there’s something else going on?”

“You’ll hear about it as soon as no one can overhear us.”

“Ah, so it’s that kind of thing. Excellent.”

“Just open the damn door, Fay.”

As soon as it swung shut, Sam practically shoved the piece of paper she was holding at my face. I had to take a quick step backward to avoid getting brained. Once I had it safely in my hands, I took a look at what it said.

The paper appeared to be a printout of what essentially amounted to a mugshot. A woman’s face stared out at me, her dark hair and wide brown eyes framed from the front and both side angles. I noted absently that she was quite pretty and seemed somehow strangely familiar, and then I saw her name and froze. Leanora Gray. I knew where I’d seen her face before, and that was in a small picture frame at the very top of Sam’s bookshelf in her room.

I glanced up at Sam, and she looked at me with something in her eyes I couldn’t quite recognize. “Keep reading,” she said, her voice clipped. “You haven’t gotten to the good part yet.”

It turned out I wasn’t wrong when I described the piece of paper as a mugshot. A list of crimes were spelled out in short, efficient sentences beneath Sam’s mom’s face. Several counts of magical arson, blackmail, treason, and murder. They didn’t go into any more detail than that, but there were letters and digits next to each charge that probably pointed to more detailed files. Down at the bottom was a set of incomprehensible signatures, and mention of a sizable reward for information leading to her arrest.

God, that was horrifying. I tried to imagine picking up a file with my mom or my dad’s name on it, just spelling out every awful thing they’d ever done. I couldn’t. I’d break down and scream. I’d feel betrayed. I… I wasn’t sure what I’d do.

“Sam?” I said cautiously. “How

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