Werewolves & Wizardry: A Katverse Urban Fantasy Novel (Kat Drummond) by Nicholas Woode-Smith

Author:Nicholas Woode-Smith [Woode-Smith, Nicholas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Warpmancer Press
Published: 2021-12-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12.

Breakout

***THE WIZARD***

The words echoed inside my mind, even as the receptionist’s small talk became an inane buzzing in my ears.

Shard Industries tower. My parents company. Tried to blow up. With a spell equivalent of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

I didn’t trust my parents. A part of me always knew that given the chance, they would screw Drez Condor over. But I had never expected him to retaliate like this.

How had I not heard about this? Sure, with all the other news in the media it would have been overshadowed by other things. And I was sailing to New Sintar for a few months earlier this year. The time after DigiLaw had gone defunct.

But why wasn’t I told anything after I got back?

Oh yeah. I wasn’t a part of the family anymore.

Even without reading the news or my estranged family making me privy to what had happened, I could guess.

My parents hired Drez Condor to develop some sort of combat magic for the family business. Probably to be utilised against the impi to the east or even sold to warlords in the far north. Drez demanded a lawmantic contract to enforce the fee. My parents reluctantly agreed. But, after the contract’s magic was voided, they reneged.

Typical. With Shard Industry lawyers versus the Defenders of Justice, the case probably didn’t even go to court. And, with the contract record corrupted until I recovered it, there was no evidence. Nothing beyond a handshake. Maybe not even that. My mother was a famous neurotic when it came to personal space.

I couldn’t help but sympathise with Drez. To be promised such a large sum and then to lose it. To be screwed out of a deal because of some scum exploiting something beyond your control…

I didn’t blame him for wanting to blow up that fucking tower. Rifts! I’ve wanted to do it before as well.

But not with all those innocents. My parents’ employees weren’t evil. Not to mention the bystanders.

It couldn’t be that simple. It couldn’t be just revenge? Could it?

To risk the lives of so many people. Over any amount of money…

There had to be more to the story.

I felt more of the ice in my spark melt at my doubt and emotions. To strengthen it, I needed to stop caring. To let go of this.

Not my witches, not my coven.

But I didn’t care about my spark. Never did.

I needed to hear Drez’s side of the story. To learn what happened. To find out what could drive such an intelligent, powerful wizard to the brink of genocide.

And more than that, I needed to understand yet another person hurt by my family.

I thanked the receptionist as she was in midsentence about the New Year’s party and the safety precautions they were installing to stop lethal firework displays from being cast by the pyromancers.

I sat down in my car, almost forgetting to de-ward it.

I still couldn’t really believe it. Perhaps, because when I had seen his spell-work, I thought I had understood this Drez Condor. That I had seen the mind of a man like myself.

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