Clawing For Vengeance (The Dragonclaw Sword Book 4) by Kevin McLaughlin & Michael Anderle

Author:Kevin McLaughlin & Michael Anderle [McLaughlin, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2021-09-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

Vala had spent considerable time and magical energy enchanting her grocery shopping cart and was excited that she could get to use it.

She moved through her lab like a dwarf on a mission, stopped at each shelf for barely a moment, and filled her cart with everything she thought she could repurpose for the task at hand.

“Surely you don’t need all this, right?” Galen asked, scratched his head, and looked dumbfounded as she raced around like a sparrow watching a hummingbird waste its energy.

“We do need all this—and don’t call me Shirley!” she retorted.

He groaned. “I think I preferred the animal phrases.”

“Then make like a cow and moooove it! I need everything with a speaker and anything that beeps, blips, pings, or yells in a weird robotic voice,” she ordered and piled her shopping cart higher. When it seemed like nothing more would fit on top of it, she used her powers to animate an electrical cord to tether it all together.

Once it was secure, she stacked even more things on top of that. She was fully aware that to the untrained eye—and given that no one in all of Cranbook let alone the world had her powers, that was every eyeball that would see it—the cart probably looked like it belonged to the world’s most well-to-do homeless person. The half-broken and patched objects were not, however, as important as what she could do with them.

“So, what is the actual plan here?” Galen asked, tried to add more items, and failed as the cart rolled away from him to follow her into the parking lot in front of Magic Managed.

Vala grinned. “We weren’t thinking big enough. Or I wasn't thinking big enough. You’re a dragon, so I guess your thoughts tend to be dragon-sized. It’s all about scale, Galen. We need coverage at a scale that will help Cranbook.”

“Was that a dragon scales joke? Because if it was, I didn’t get it.”

“No, no, no! All this is how we find the disks.”

“With…broken clock radios?”

“Exactly!” She crowed in triumph. “Everything in this cart has a speaker of some kind, which means all of it can be reverse-engineered—well, I guess I should say reverse-enchanted—to detect magic.”

“How does that work?”

“Speakers work by vibrating the air, right?” she asked but did not wait for an answer. “Microphones work on the same principle but in reverse.”

“The air vibrates them.”

“Precisely!” she confirmed, which wiped the smirk off his face. Maybe he had been trying to be clever. She didn’t know and was too excited to think about it. “I’ve used speakers because they have this inverse reciprocal relationship with microphones. Speakers can detect vibrations and since I’ve discovered that magic also has different harmonic vibrations to it, we can use this to detect magic.”

“Even the smoke detector?” He held up a yellowing case with a single blinking red light.

“Anything that makes sound needs to vibrate. I’m sure I’ll be able to get something off all of these.”

“Okay…but how strong can the speaker in a clock radio be? It can’t have much of a range.

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