Tommy Black and the Coat of Invincibility by Jake Kerr

Author:Jake Kerr [Kerr, Jake]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Currents & Tangents Press
Published: 2016-01-04T08:00:00+00:00

Our driver from the previous day was nowhere to be found, and the taxis refused to take us where we wanted to go, which was a small city called Toksovo. It was to the northeast and one step closer to the Arctic cold. The look on their faces when we mentioned the city seemed to indicate that very bad things happened there. We tramped back into the hotel, and Arkady spoke with the clerk.

Arkady would say a few words, and the clerk would shake his head. At one point, Arkady pulled out his wallet and laid a long string of bills on the counter top. It looked like the remainder of our money. He tapped the money with his forefinger and then said some words in Russian. The clerk, who looked to be about the same age as Arkady, nodded his head, grabbed the money, and then started walking around the counter to join us.

As the clerk led us to a car, Arkady explained what happened. “He can drive but doesn’t have a car. He is borrowing the owner’s car, which will certainly get him fired. So I had to give him an inducement to help us.”

“I’m guessing that inducement was quite a bit of money,” I said.

“I paid him about six months wages for him.”

We turned the corner from the front of the hotel, and there was a new black sedan parked next to the side entrance to the hotel. “It looks like we don’t have much money left,” Naomi noted.

“Well, we don’t have many more options after this. We either find the Angel and leave with the Coat or we don’t find her and leave without it. Either way we are leaving.”

“True enough,” I added as the clerk crawled into the driver’s seat. Once again Arkady sat in front while Naomi and I sat in the back. Naomi had talked about attempting to disguise us again with an illusion, but I told her that we’d need her energy for the confrontation with the Angel’s men. She nodded, and we all were quiet for what turned out to be a long drive into a wild but beautiful countryside.

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