Agents of Order by T R Cameron

Author:T R Cameron [Cameron, T R]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781642024173
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2019-08-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

The coin had grown warm around her neck some hours before, but Sarah had been at the office and was unwilling to communicate from there. Her enemies had done her an unwitting service by bugging the warehouse. The security threat compelled her to return home before speaking with Dreven, which in turn, allowed her to delay the effort as long as desired.

She’d finally accomplished virtually everything she could at the base, however, and surrendered to the fact that she couldn’t delay it any longer. With one last look around, she locked the office door from the inside and created a portal to an alley behind a south side coffeehouse. After securing her favorite drink of the moment—a flat white with vanilla—she used the secluded passage between the buildings to magically relocate to the parking garage beneath her condo.

Sarah sipped her coffee appreciatively during the elevator ride up and nodded to the other residents of the building as they entered and exited. During the week since the event, she'd reveled in a bout of positivity. The last attack had gone well, even though it had not resulted in a clear victory. The annoying human who liked to speak out against Oricerans was dead at her hands, and she still remembered the sound of all his bones breaking at once with deep satisfaction. They’d winnowed the numbers of the police a little and struck fear into the populace, who would now put pressure on the politicians and thus create additional chaos.

Better still, she’d defeated the leader of the enemy forces and dispatched her to a trap on Oriceran. The World in Between would have been my preferred place to banish her, but it’s something, at least. The stunned expression on her face as the portal swept over her had become an often-visited memory of the event. Her people told her that the troll had been inconsolable and destroyed everything in sight, which was another mental image she enjoyed.

The silence from Dreven was worrying at first, but she'd put it down to the man’s arrogance. She would surely have heard from Iressa if the wizard had fallen to the woman, which was unlikely, in any case. The lack of communication from her new patron had also been a source of concern, but it was in keeping with the dark witch’s style to thwart her expectations.

She set the drink down on her coffee table. The statue’s resting place was on a thin pedestal in the hallway that connected the living room to the bedroom, and she retrieved it before she returned to sit on the white leather couch. She paused for a moment to soak in the quiet and stillness around her. It had been a day’s work to add spells to improve the soundproofing in the apartment and the precautions used only a small daily expenditure of power to keep the improvement active. Now, only the loudest noises of the city far below signaled the existence of a world beyond her windows unless she sought it out.

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