Thundersword by Julian Rosado-Machain

Author:Julian Rosado-Machain
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Thundersword, Magic, Sci-Fi, Fiction, Guardians, Technology, Inc.
ISBN: 1479327514
Published: 2012-09-21T21:00:00+00:00

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“How'd it go?” Tony asked as he chewed on a piece of pizza.

“It was interesting,” Thomas said. He still hadn't digested what he had learned from the meeting at the Council chamber. As soon as he had returned with Bolswaithe, the butler had explained that he couldn't talk too much about what he had seen until the Doctor gave him permission.

Even with his team.

“That's it?” Elise asked him. “Interesting? You just met the heads of Guardians Inc. and that's all you have to say?”

“What else do you want me to say?” Thomas reached for a slice of pizza. Even with access to all the places in the world and all the different pizzerias at Tony's disposal, he still went to a little hole-in-the-wall Italian restaurant two blocks away from Central Park in Manhattan. The thin, Brooklyn-style pizza was Tony's comfort food.

“Those people are responsible in some way for more than a third of all labor in the world.” Elise seemed to be really amazed at Thomas’s nonchalance. “There are more people working in some ways for Guardians Inc. than citizens in many countries, and the Council members you just met control the holding companies that control the companies and businesses that employ that workforce.”

“Okay,” Thomas said, taking a bite. “So it’s like a pyramid, and the Council members are at the top, right?” He sat beside Tony. Elise gave him that disbelieving look, the one that said, Are you kidding, dumb, or just plain ignorant? He bit down on the pizza, trying to suppress a laugh.

“You're kidding, right?” she finally said, grabbing a slice. “You know you just met the most powerful people on the planet.”

“I didn't ‘meet them,’ Elise,” he said. “It was more like a show and tell. I just stood there and they all just saw me in the flesh. I felt like a Sunday School project. It was also very confusing, I was just dropped there in the middle of a group of people I had never seen before.”

“How many were there?” Elise asked. “Did they all show up?”

Thomas looked at Bolswaithe who nodded. “If you don't know...” Thomas said, savoring the moment. This was probably the first time he knew more about the company than her. “You probably don't need to know at your clearance level. I'm sorry.”

Tony couldn’t keep from laughing, but Elise remained silent. She was always keen on keeping to regulations, so she wouldn’t ask Thomas to break one.

“Did you ask about going with the Namtarii?” she asked instead.

“We didn’t ask them,” Doctor Franco said as he entered the room. “We told them what we were going to do.”

“That was a quick meeting, Doctor,” Elise said.

“There wasn't much to discuss after Thomas left,” the Doctor answered, winking at Thomas. “We need to go with the Namtarii, and they agreed.”

“I still think that's crazy!” Tony yelled.

“We have less signs than Morgan's team,” the Doctor said calmly. “Hoormel Kian has made sure that every Clan knows about what happened in Ethipothala and the

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