The Void Mage by Honor Raconteur

Author:Honor Raconteur [Raconteur, Honor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy
Publisher: Raconteur House
Published: 2017-11-22T05:00:00+00:00

“Are you a complete and utter moron?!”

I paused outside the meeting room door, completely taken aback. I had never, in all the years of knowing her, heard that tone out of Rena. She sounded completely disgusted, livid—like she wanted to flay the person alive for their crass stupidity. Even at her worst the only thing I’d seen her do was punch someone dead in the face. What by the deities was going on?

Alarmed, I double-timed it through the door, taking in the situation as I did so. Salvatore stood near the table, Nora and Maksohm slumped in chairs, and—well hello, when did Magus Trammel arrive? I hadn’t seen him since he did that study on us two years ago. The man looked rough, like he had spent the past two weeks traveling and camping out, and the expression on his face made me think of torture chambers and mother storms.

I put his arrival aside for a moment, immediately going to Rena before she could bring the building down around us. With the mood she was in, she might. The bond quivered but not out of a reaction to danger. I stopped just shy of touching her, for once not sure if I should, or if I would have a hand left if I tried it.

Rena stood ramrod straight, shaking with anger, face flushed, and her whole body sparking as if with static. But I knew her magic by feel. Whatever had set her off made her usually excellent control over her magic fray paper thin. I glanced across from her and found Salvatore and Maksohm staring back at her, both alarmed; Maksohm more than the director as with his magical sight he could see how close Rena was to losing it.

My bond with her felt red hot to the touch and I could sense her in a way that I never had before and never wanted to again. I felt like a bonfire had been poured directly into my chest, and believe me, the only thing I wanted to do was turn tail and run. If I thought it might help, I would have.

The director unwisely opened his mouth. “Magus, we had no choice—”

“No choice?” she spat out and the word sounded like the filthiest curse a person could utter. “Your stupidity has cost thousands of lives, hundreds of thousands of acres and more property damage than I care to think of and you didn’t have a choice?”

Not wanting to interrupt but really needing context, I mouthed to Maksohm, What’s going on?

Maksohm winced.

The reaction caught Rena’s attention and she speared him with a glare. “Tell me you knew better than this. Tell me you said something, that you at least argued with him.”

“Everyone in the Maksohm family said something to me,” the director answered, as if she’d addressed him, and wow, he had no survival instincts, did he? “The barrier is always stronger when shaped as a ball, I know that, but we couldn’t afford to keep the barrier in that shape around an entire mountain range.

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