Well of Magic: An Urban Fantasy (Rosie O'Grady's Paranormal Bar and Grill Book 4) by BR Kingsolver

Author:BR Kingsolver [Kingsolver, BR]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2019-12-14T16:00:00+00:00

Four young mages that I didn’t recognize came in a few days later and took a table near the recreation area—where the pool tables and the dart boards were. They looked like university students but were a little too clean cut, and their civilian clothes were a little too new and starched. I had worked at a bar near a military base once, and I noticed that out of uniform, U.S. Marines and Knights Magica looked a lot alike. No one but me seemed to pay them any particular attention.

I observed that all of them sat in such a way that they could watch both the front door and the bartender—me.

Jenny stopped by their table, handed them menus, and took their drink orders. I waited for her to come over to the bar.

“I’ll bet those guys are Knights,” I said.

“Oh, really? A black lager, two cream ales, and a Harp.” Jenny had been waiting tables at Rosie’s for fifty years, and very little ruffled her. “The younger ones are new, but the older guy has been coming in for about three weeks. Nice, always polite, tips about average.”

I poured the beers and brought them to her. As the evening wore on, their unrelenting attention toward me began to feel a little creepy. They hung around and drank beer until almost eleven, then paid out and left.

A couple of minutes later, one of our regulars burst in. “Fight outside,” he announced. “Some guys got jumped out on the street.”

I took that to mean the main street, not the alley that ran in front of Rosie’s. Still, too close. I grabbed the bouncer bat from under the bar and headed for the front door while Jenny headed toward the bar to cover for me.

Several men met me at the door.

“Ed, Karl,” I said to two of the more level-headed guys, “I’d appreciate you covering my back. The rest of you, just make sure nothing nasty manages to make it through the door. None of us want to explain broken furniture to Sam, do we?”

When I emerged into the alley, I saw the Knights—two pairs, back-to-back with drawn knives—about fifty feet away at the alley’s entrance. Surrounding them were several men and a woman, pounding the Knights’ shields with magical energy.

“Hey!” I yelled, cautiously approaching the melee. “You want to fight, go somewhere else. This is a non-combat zone.”

One of the attackers turned and hurled a small fireball at me. It splashed against my shield but didn’t penetrate. The burst of ley line energy I shot back in return blew him off his feet, and he landed twenty feet farther away, past the sidewalk and out in the middle of the street.

“I’m going to start hurting people if you don’t get the hell out of here,” I yelled. Another man and the woman turned to face me. I got a clear look at their faces but didn’t recognize either of them.

She fired off a burst of orange-colored energy that seriously compromised my shield. I’d seen that spell before and knew it was trouble.

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