Awakening Aidan (A Wizard's Quest #1) by Dan Wingreen

Author:Dan Wingreen [Wingreen, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay fantasy romance
Publisher: Fireborn Publishing
Published: 2015-03-20T04:00:00+00:00

PART II

The Desert

CHAPTER 7

Appearances could be deceiving.

As far as pearls of wisdom went, it was probably not the one that would engender the most significant amount of awe when applied to a situation or repeated in conversation. For sure, Noah's daddy, before his death, had at least ten other sayings he'd used on a daily basis. They did more to make him seem all-knowing and wise in the eyes of anyone who had spoken with him for more than a few minutes; not just his family, but everybody with the ability to listen. However, sometimes the most innocuous of statements was the only thing that could adequately sum up a situation, and to spend time thinking up a more thought-provoking or eloquent way of putting it would actually show off less intellect than using the clichéd and oft-repeated saying.

Take San Francisco's DMS headquarters, for example. From the outside it looked like every other DMS building Noah had ever been in. Same walls. Same design. Same windows. The only anomaly he could see from the outside was the heavy, black scorch marks surrounding one of the windows on the top floor.

Inside, however, was a much different story.

Scorch marks, after-spell burns and gouges, broken windows, shattered desks, dented walls, and other signs of chaos were waiting almost right inside the front door. Even the staircase was collapsed, which just went to prove another one of Noah's daddy's sayings; if there's one way in and one way out then there's only one thing that needs to go wrong for someone to be trapped and probably killed. He'd never held to the idea that magic was enough to make up for a lack of forward planning and, consequently, neither did Noah. Which was why he barely spared the fallen staircase a resigned, unsurprised glance before heading to the elevators.

After he wandered around the building surveying the damage and trying to calculate the power needed for just a single man to cause such destruction, he made his way to the fifth floor and the office of the Agent in Charge of this particular district. Inside, the outer office was pristine, spotless. Another deceptive appearance.

It was organized and laid out the same way every AIC's office was, couch on the left wall, receptionist's desk on the far wall, and the door to the office proper on the right. The male receptionist behind the desk was even immaculately groomed, a far cry from the frizzy, nervous woman manning the front desk downstairs. If one had opened the lobby door and somehow been instantly transported to this room, one might never know just how much death and carnage had been dispensed in the halls outside of it.

Which would be convenient in helping to keep the fallibility of the DMS from public knowledge. If they could set up a spell that would only allow people into the areas of a building that were untouched, certain images would be much easier to maintain. Noah shrugged mentally as he walked up to the receptionist.

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