Ferryl Shayde - Book 3 - A Very Different Game by Vance Huxley

Author:Vance Huxley [Huxley, Vance]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: General Fiction
Publisher: Entrada Publishing
Published: 2017-12-08T05:00:00+00:00

Mixed Results

The first visit on Saturday, to Frederick’s house, combined business and pleasure. Frederick liked the idea of protecting Elmwood Park and his dryad friend. He became enthusiastic at the thought of offering a few dryads from the orchard new, young trees in the park so they could keep his friend company. Jenny and Kelis came up with that, giving a dryad three young trees to compensate for them being smaller, so that Frederick and the Taverners could use the magic in the orchard trees they vacated. Twelve Taverners walked to the park to set up the boundary, an echo of the first time the Tavern went there.

Dryad Elm, in its big Horse Chestnut tree, didn’t seem keen on anyone claiming the park until Abel explained. The dryad would stay, but now it could ripen seeds to go into a couple of the other trees. The saplings weren’t quite big enough to protect seedlings, not yet, but the protection around the park would deal with that. Explaining there might be other dryads coming, some extra company, really cheered up the old dryad. With ten other magic users to help, Abel and Fay soon set a dozen lead bars into the park walls to power a warning barrier around the whole area. That should claim the park and the trees until Ferryl could set up a feed from the trees to create a real deterrent to magic thieves.

She announced, through Abel and Zephyr, that she didn’t want to put in the traps to zap any sorcerer poaching magic, not yet. It had been a while since she last cast those, so she’d prefer to inspect a working version first. Privately Ferryl admitted she didn’t know how, not without the right wit. With luck, if Zephyr helped her to inspect one of Abel’s new parks, she could work it out.

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Shawn, one of the oldest Taverners, drove the BMW for the next visit because he filled the hexes for this customer. On the way, Abel warned Shawn to keep well clear of everyone else. He explained the shield, and that the best of the Taverners such as Shawn would learn as soon as Abel had got it perfected. At least Abel had an answer when Shawn complained about not having enough magic to practice yet another glyph. Providing he only took one extra lead bar’s worth a week, Shawn could tap the young trees in Elmwood Park. If Dryad Sycamore told him that damaged the tree, Shawn had to cut back immediately or use several trees.

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The security guard on the gate of the protected property called the house before letting them in. By the time the car reached the turning circle outside the front door, a man and woman stood there waiting. “That bloke is always here, but I don’t recognise the woman.” Shawn sounded worried.

Ferryl’s mental voice didn’t sound very happy. “The owner must be nervous about sorceresses, very nervous, because both of those people wear shields close to the skin. The man must be a permanent magical bodyguard.

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