Chris Moriarty by The Inquisitor's Apprentice (ARC)

Author:The Inquisitor's Apprentice (ARC)
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-07-18T19:15:31+00:00

he was fine, he told himself, hoping to stave off the nightmares. the rag and Bone Man had saved him. again.

But he knew that the rag and Bone Man hadn’t really saved him. he had only delayed the inevitable.

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C h a p t e r t W e n t Y

The Path of No Action

Or the next few weeks, the edison investigation seemed to go completely cold. If Wolf was still working on the case— and Sacha caught just enough snatches of eavesdropped conversation between Wolf and payton to be pretty sure that Wolf was still working on it— he didn’t tell his apprentices about it.

Instead, he let them tag along on his other cases. and he had lots of them. Sacha and Lily watched Wolf solve cases of magical insurance fraud, magical embezzlement, magical blackmail . . . and one unnerving murder where a respectable businessman apparently died of a heart attack but turned out to have been done in by means of a nasty little spell that made its victims’ blood boil in their veins.

Gradually Sacha began to see the method behind Wolf ’s famously eccentric inquisitorial technique. he learned to respect Wolf ’s silences and to wait for the astonishing leaps of k 2 3 1 k

logic that would often follow them. he came to recognize the vague, unfocused gaze that meant Wolf was scouring a crime scene for the one thing that didn’t fit, the one loose thread that he could tug on to unravel the most subtly woven conspiracy.

Sacha began to despair of ever becoming the kind of Inquisitor that Wolf was. he just didn’t have the talent, he told himself. and the one talent he did have was starting to seem completely useless. after all, what good was being able to see magic when the Inquisitors were never called to the scene of a crime until the magic was played out and the criminals long gone? even Lily’s bulldog tenacity seemed more useful for a real life Inquisitor than Sacha’s strange second sight.

Yet Wolf ’s faith in Sacha never seemed to waver. Wolf would even make odd, disconnected comments from time to time that suggested he assumed Sacha would become a far better Inquisitor than he was. It should have made Sacha proud, but it just made him feel like a fraud. especially when he knew he was lying to the man.

even worse, Sacha was no closer to figuring out what to do about the dybbuk. In fact, he could barely bring himself to think about it. every now and then he would see the hazy halo around a street lamp or smell the dank river air wafting up from the docks— and he would flash back to that terrifying moment when he stood in the dark street face-to-face with the dybbuk and thought . . . almost thought. . . . But whenever he tried to face the memory a wave of shame, terror, and confusion swept over him.

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