Castle Dreams by John DeChancie

Author:John DeChancie [DeChancie, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-01-12T05:00:00+00:00

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He sat alone and watched flames lick heat from the gray logs.

[1. Tierra del Fuego is not a nation. It is a group of islands owned partly by Argentina and Chile. The struggle for Tierra del Fuegan independence, however, goes on.]

[2. Cawdor is the name of the castle in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Castles seem to be one of the author’s abiding crotchets. (Satellite photos have shown that there are no castles in Tierra del Fuego).]

[3. Despite all his references to exotic locales, the author has never been outside the continental United States (except for Canada, which counts as a foreign country, but not by much; unless you’re talking about Quebec, which is a foreign country).]

Twelve

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Mine

In a subbasement of the administration building they found a tunnel that led into the mine.

There was a huge metal door at the end of the tunnel and it looked impregnable.

“More magic?” Sativa asked.

“Sure. Always worth a try, but remember what I said about repeating spells. It wears them out. There should be enough left of the first one. I gave it all I had.”

“That’s a vanadium steel door with a tamper-proof lock. Can’t be picked or probed.”

“Oh, I dunno. Seems rather straightforward to me.”

She grunted. “The only thing straightforward is —” Her jaw suddenly dropped.

Grinning, Gene swung the heavy door open. “Spell’s working pretty good. If you hit it right, everything happens for you.”

Sativa was thunderstruck. “But that’s impossible. The combination to that lock is thousands of digits long. You couldn’t possibly …”

“It opened by itself.”

“How?”

“Uh, quantum tunneling. Little electrons just suddenly deciding to cross a resistor, all in the proper sequence.”

“But the chances of that happening by accident are —”

“Vanishingly small. I know. But that’s what a facilitation spell does, see. It makes the remotely possible very probable. As long as there’s a chance that it could happen, it will happen. But as I said, you gotta do it just right. It doesn’t always work.”

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