The Magic Shop by swapp justin

Author:swapp, justin [swapp, justin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2013-04-24T17:00:00+00:00

14

The Great Faustino Forsyth

Faustino picked the children up off the ground, one in each arm. Marcus tried reaching for his brim, despite the strict warning Elba had given him, but Faustino swung them around as he walked, dragging them over the stairs and bumping them into the walls at random. Marcus couldn’t believe the muscle he possessed. He had attributed his title, Faustino the Great, to his magical prowess, not his brute strength. But as he came to think of it, he realized that he had never seen Faustino actually work magic until today, when he… killed someone. He didn’t like their chances. How many times can someone escape death? And he had already done it once.

“I can only assume,” Faustino huffed angrily, “that today you’ve seen something you had no business seeing.” He carried them through a back room and up a set of stairs.

“Who are you two?” he asked. “And how did you get in here?” They didn’t answer. Ellie, however, did kick and punch at him. Marcus thought he saw her bite Faustino’s arm, but it was hard to tell. The man didn’t even wince, he merely wiggled his arm and she came loose again.

At the top of the stairs Faustino shouldered open a door that lead to a room that Marcus thought was an attic. Aside from the stacks of boxes, Marcus saw swords, hats, books, and bottles of floating oddities. At the end of the room, by the only window, were several large animal cages.

“We don’t take kindly to intruders here,” Faustino dropped the kids on the ground next to the cages. Dust puffed up as they landed. Faustino opened the first cage. “Get in,” he pointed to Ellie, then at her new prison. For the first time, Marcus noticed an ugly scar under one of Faustino’s eyes. He was sure that it hadn’t been there at the talent show.

Ellie crawled into the cage and Faustino wasted no time locking it behind her.

“Who sent you to spy on me?” he opened the other cage. He grabbed Marcus by the collar and tossed him in his own cage, barring and locking the door behind him. “Who…hm? Some company?” He set the cage key on top of an old crate. “The military? Some country vying for power?”

“Please don’t hurt us,” Ellie pressed her face against the bars. Marcus had seen her make this pitiful face before. “We’re just kids. We don’t know anything about businesses or… power.” Marcus followed her lead and grabbed his bars too.

Faustino narrowed his eyes at the children. “You look very familiar,” he stepped forward. “Where have I seen you before?”

The floor creaked.

“Well, well, what do we have here?” a voice asked from the top of the stairs just outside the room. A sneering Elizabeth had just entered the room, followed closely by Jason, the boy from the magic talent show.

“You called for me, sir?” Jason asked. “I am, of course, at your—”

“He called for us,” Elizabeth said.

“Yes, I did,” Faustino said in a short, snappy tone.

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