Adamant by Emma L. Adams

Author:Emma L. Adams
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2015-03-10T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

KAY

“She did what?” Ms Weston’s shout could have shattered the windows. “You let her escape again?”

“It was that or kill both of us,” I said. “She somehow directed a magical charge into my communicator and destroyed it. The energy in that thing—it was impossible not to let her go. Level two at least.”

Ms Weston stood across from me, behind her desk, wrapped in a thundercloud of rage. I’d already mentally braced myself for those dreaded words, the ones that would exile me from the Multiverse forever.

I didn’t even want to contemplate what came after.

Ms Weston gave an impatient sigh. “I don’t know what to do with you, Kay, to be quite honest. We have lost a valuable prisoner, and if you hadn’t taken it upon yourself to interfere, it might not have happened.”

“She would have escaped sooner or later,” I said, aware that this was no excuse for fucking up like I had. “She had accomplices—and at least one magic-wielder among them.”

“Yes, it seems we might have a group of rogue magic-wielders on our hands. At any rate, there were witnesses, and we know the faces of her two companions.”

“There were more,” I said. “She talked to someone. She had a communication device, an earpiece, but I couldn’t see it. She was stripped down, right?”

“Yes, she was searched quite thoroughly. However, judging by the technology employed to lock her mobile phone, it’s safe to conclude that she has skilled friends out there somewhere.”

As if we didn’t have enough to worry about. After Ada had fled, it was chase her or subdue the smoking communicator, and common sense had won out. I didn’t want the device she’d blasted with second level magic destroying half of Central.

“What she did with the communicator,” I said. “She released pure magical energy into Alliance technology.” Dangerous—and a damn good idea, too. I was kind of impressed, though I’d have been less so if I hadn’t dropped the thing before it burned my hands off.

“That she did,” said Ms Weston. “I’ll arrange for you to receive a new one.”

She’s not firing me. I could breathe easier again.

“However, this situation is out of hand. The murders aside, we have good reason to suspect there might be an underworld of illicit magical activity here in London itself. Even within the Passages.”

The Passages. “The untracked one must be the one she used. If we can find it, it’ll lead us right to her. It must be near where she lives, or at the very least, the place where these illegal immigrants from offworld are sheltering.”

Ms Weston nodded. Her anger had all but evaporated now. “Excellent. We’ll need to send in an investigatory team. Would you be willing to lead?”

I stared. Didn’t expect that, not after I’d been deemed disappointing, let alone the total clusterfuck of Ada’s escape. “Of course,” I said. It was a chance to make up for the fiasco earlier. To redeem my position in the Alliance. And find out what was really going on with Ada.

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