Wizard's Nocturne: The Sixth Jonathan Shade Novel by Jonas Gary

Author:Jonas, Gary [Jonas, Gary]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Denton & White
Published: 2015-07-30T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Four members of Alpha et Omega working in shifts kept an eye on Rayna for me. For her part, Rayna steered clear of the temple. She spent a lot of time at the library reading up on the occult, and she made a morning ritual out of going to Central Park to exercise. In our original time, she owned and managed a health spa called The Steam Room, so she kept herself in excellent shape.

I wasn't worried about her. She was waiting for Kelly and Brand to show up, but the Kelly and Brand she expected would never arrive as they'd both died in 1877, and she'd already met me without knowing it. She knew it could be months or longer before anything would change, so she created a routine and stuck to it. After a time, I had the team go on to do other things and let one guy check in on her every now and then.

I put Ralph in charge of the Carlton J. Penick patrol. The fact that Carlton had upgraded himself from dick to murderer bothered me, but he lived a mostly quiet life.

Carlton spent most of his time trying to translate the Emerald Tablets of Thoth with the assistance of a team at the temple. He didn't know I'd told them to stall him and lead him down the wrong path as much as they could, so he wasn't making much progress, and it was really pissing him off. He was good for months of study as long as he could partake in the fertility rituals several times a week with different women. He spent a lot of time talking to Winslow in the basement, and that didn't concern me because unless they were whispering, I could listen in on the conversations through the vent whenever I wanted.

Winslow didn't trust Carlton, so I wasn't too worried if I missed the occasional meeting.

My biggest concern was about the Vanguard. What would they do when those four spirits did not return? How long would they wait? Would they return with a full army of spirits? It was difficult to research them. Not that the Internet would have helped as the results would still be nearly impossible to quantify. Were they at the Battle of Shiloh? Were they at the Battle of Thermopylae? How would I know? It's not like they advertised, and there was no way of knowing how long they'd been around. Would they send a bunch of spirits to deal with one body when they had battles they could have been fighting in Mexico's Cristero War, which so far had been just skirmishes but were leading to greater violence, or in China for the Northern Expedition or the civil war raging in Nicaragua?

Maybe they got my messages and chose not to send more spirits and hadn't noticed that they were short four ghosts. I had no way of knowing.

Christmas came and went, and all remained quiet. We moved into January, and I spent my time reading, writing, and trying to do a little exercise to keep the arthritis at bay.

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