The Necromancer's Knives by Jen Kirchner

Author:Jen Kirchner [Kirchner, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-29T22:00:00+00:00

I didn’t expect to be gone for so long. The line at my favorite coffee shop, the Cacao Cafe, was wrapped around the building. I wasn’t going to leave without my favorite chicken panini and a nonfat, sugar-free vanilla latte. Cody was taking me out to dinner in a couple of hours, and I’d learned to eat in advance in case he did something to kill my appetite.

Note to self: When Cody starts asking random questions, ignore him. The answer is always the organ in his pants.

Traffic on the highway was slow and doubled the time it took to get downtown. I’d already been gone an hour when I finally made it to the high-rise where Marcus ran his legal and accounting businesses, and where he and Heraclitus lived. Marcus had owned the building since I was young, so I’d spent a lot of time there growing up. Now that I was older, Marcus rented out some of the apartments to conservators.

Luckily, none of the conservators were home. They must have all been working.

Unfortunately, Heraclitus wasn’t home either, and Marcus was upstairs working. I had to use Heraclitus’s spare key “hidden” above the door, resting on the doorframe, to get inside. I missed my grouchy surrogate uncle, but I left him a note to say that I stopped by and thanked him for taking care of Nadia.

It took a few trips to pack up Nadia and all of her things. Toys, bed, favorite blankie, favorite stuffed animal, treats—did I spoil my cat?—wet food, dry food, and bowls. And finally Nadia inside of her crate.

Miss Nadia wasn’t a huge fan of the car, so I took us straight home.

As I neared the house, I checked Death Radar for Norayr and Ronel. They hadn’t returned, but there were five new signals stationed around my property like a star. Four of the signals were people I didn’t know. The fifth one—

Wait a minute. Why was Cody on Death Radar?

I slammed on the brakes, throwing myself against the seat belt. Nadia’s cat carrier slid forward and hit the back of the passenger seat. She mewed in her frantic, high-pitched kitty voice, and I heard her claws digging into the hard plastic carrier for stability.

According to Death Radar, Cody was across the street, by the mailbox.

Surging with adrenaline, my physical and necromancer senses on overdrive, I jammed the button to open my front gate and hit the gas again, throwing me and Nadia’s carrier backward. The car flew around the corner into the cul-de-sac.

I pulled just inside the gate and threw the gearshift into park. I stumbled out of the car and toward the street, through my access spell. Something in the back of my mind said the spell was wrong somehow.

I didn’t remember crossing the street and wading into the bushes, but suddenly I was there, staring down at Cody.

I didn’t know Cody had been a first-channeler. I’m not able to discern these things on the living. My necromancer senses also told me he had died from an “energy transference.

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