The Wizard Corps (Strings of Empire Book 1) by Antibes Guy

Author:Antibes, Guy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Casiepress LLC
Published: 2024-07-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eightee

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Quint wore his black uniform on the first day of his new assignment. He expected an office the size of Pozella’s tiny workspace. He wasn’t very disappointed to have an office a little bigger and with a window looking out of a window well in the basement of the military ministry instead of a desk in the middle of a room full of them.

After reporting for duty at the front desk, an orderly took him down a narrow set of stairs and deposited him in his office.

“You’ll be summoned when you are needed, sir,” the orderly said as he saluted.

The salute surprised Quint. He hoped that wouldn’t get the orderly in trouble, he thought sarcastically.

Quint looked through the empty desk drawers and concluded the office must have been set up just for him. He walked out the door into the empty corridor. The rest of the doors were closed, and the few Quint tried were locked. At least he wasn’t executed, at least not yet.

A young officer ranked lower than Quint but at least a decade older showed up after an hour or so.

“You will meet your commanding officer now. Follow me.”

They stopped at an office on the third floor. It said Military Diplomatic Corps on the double door. Quint’s escort opened the door, walked in front of him, and looked behind as he walked to the office in the corner.

“You may be seated. The commander will be here shortly,” the escort said before doing an about-face and walking out of the offices of the Military Diplomatic Corps.

Quint waited for his escort to leave before taking a few steps into the office. Desks filled the area with a row of offices, some with open doors, and some doors were closed.

He attracted unfriendly stares, so he returned to his seat. Quint waited half an hour before a woman rushed into the office dressed in a female army uniform with designations of colonel on her uniform.

“I like the black,” she said. “Make that your standard uniform at headquarters.”

Quint scrambled to his feet. “Lieutenant Quinto Tirolo reporting for duty, ma’am,” he said saluting.

She returned his salute with a casual wave and gestured that Quint sit back down.

“I’m aware who you are. The question is, how can I use a teenaged Level 3 hubite wizard?”

“You don’t know, ma’am?” Quint asked.

“I’ll be honest; I’d rather you not be here. I’m responsible for making my people productive, but you were assigned to me without a personnel request.”

“I know military strategy and history. I’m a wizard, but then that’s hardly unusual.”

“It is around here, Lieutenant. I don’t suppose you know willot?”

Quint shook his head. “I was told I was forbidden to learn.”

“Perhaps at the wizard corps. I’m a little more flexible. Some of our internal communications are written in the willot language. I don’t want to have to translate everything you write. Find some texts and spend the next few weeks learning the basics. The grammar is identical to the common language.”

“I can do that, ma’am.”

The colonel grimaced.

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