Tricks by Scott Rhine
Author:Scott Rhine [Rhine, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2020-02-02T22:00:00+00:00
16. Raid
When I stepped into the hallway, Luca was arguing with her mother. Lena gestured to the parking lot. âSince you donât have a vehicle, your father agreed I could pick you up on days heâs too busy campaigning against me.â
âAre you really making this all about you? Your campaign is the reason I donât have a car right now. Besides, the race is over.â
âNot until I say it is. I havenât accepted the Councilâs offer of membership yet.â
âIâm going to be late for my doctorâs appointment. Vassar gave me a whole list of vaccinations I need to be on campus, vaccinations that you didnât believe in at the time they were due.â
âIf youâre going to blame anyone for my being late, blame the Councilâs goon squad. Theyâre searching everyone coming into the campus, and nobody is allowed out.â
I locked eyes with Luca. âTheyâre sweeping for dark artifacts. The guys they arrested Friday mustâve given them a list of other offenders in exchange for leniency.â
âWhy? The Antinomians already tossed lockers for the lip balm.â
âNo. This is about more than blood. They waited for the new law to kick in before making the sweep,â I said.
Her mom shook her forefinger. âItâs a power play by the white coalition. They canât do this. The compact says that we have to give a moonâs notice for all changes that result in punishment. They canât send in the CRT yet, let alone two squads.â
âWhoa!â I said. âYou didnât mention the big guns were here. Somebody could get hurt.â
âI think thatâs the idea,â Lena replied. âThey want someone to resist arrest and get dead. Itâs jackboot time.â
I pounded on the office door and let Ms. Bradstreet know about the invasion.
She passed me the shield and grabbed a tuning fork out of a wall safe. Without ear protection or an immunity like mine, the magical sound would put anyone in hearing distance to sleep if she tapped it. I followed her and the ex-mayoral candidate out to the parking lot. Luca had stopped to grab her Book and lagged a few yards behind.
My mentor pounded the back door of the armored van and shouted, âWhat is the meaning of this?â
The blonde medic often handled communications at the mobile base. Freya was the only cop Iâd met with scissors strapped to her right pant leg. She moved her throat mic aside. âSorry, Melisende. We were in the boysâ school in the process of serving a legitimate warrant on Jeroboam Jefferson for possession of a forbidden grimoire. The suspect knocked out the officer and ran. The school cameras tracked him to the boathouse, where weâve surrounded him. Weâre constructing a circle in case he attempts a summoning. The lockdown is just a precaution in case he has accomplices.â
A grimoire was serious stuff. Men couldnât use family Books to invoke magic. They had to control a supernatural creature, take its blood, and talk to related creatures through that. Instead of having dead relatives act out of a legacy of
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