Go Ask Your Mother Complete Series Boxed Set by Monroe Theophilus & Anderle Michael

Author:Monroe, Theophilus & Anderle, Michael
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9798888786239
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2023-10-23T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

I woke up Kat to let her know what was happening. The last thing I wanted was for her to wake up and find I was missing. Jessie saw Nigel. She knew, more or less, what was happening, but she didn’t know we were leaving. I told Kat to stick with the plan. She could train Jeff and Hans at the store in the morning. If I made it there, I made it there. If I didn’t, well, it was nothing to worry about.

Without a gate mage at our disposal, we had to travel the old-fashioned way, and when you’re throwing arcane missiles around, it’s generally a good idea to get as far from civilization as possible. You’d think practicing magic at night would be a good thing, but arcane power manifests like a brilliant light show. A strong arcane blast can light up the skies.

I knew a place, though it had been years since I went there to train. After I met Kat, and she got pregnant with Elijah, I set aside my wand for a while. A battlemage doesn’t have a lot of useful skills when there isn’t an enemy to fight.

I hoped the spot I had in mind was still accessible. If anyone developed anything in the area, we’d have to find someplace new. It was about an hour’s drive, even in the middle of the night without traffic, down Interstate 44. You don’t have to drive too far out of St. Louis to hit the rolling hills of the Ozarks.

I was in cargo pants and hiking boots. I knew we had a walk ahead of us after I parked the truck.

The trails I used to hike were now overgrown. Nigel, in a suit and wearing loafers, bitched the whole hike. Welcome to the Midwest, pretty boy.

We arrived at what used to be a clearing in the jungle. A few saplings were new, and tall weeds covered the ground.

Nigel shook his head. “This isn’t the gymnasium in our chambers, but I suppose it will suffice.”

I chuckled. “Look at that boulder. It still has burn marks from the last time I practiced out here.”

The boulder was about half the size it used to be. I’d hit it with a series of arcane missiles. There were several more boulders standing in the space. I never targeted trees unless they were already dead. I’ve never been a hippie or anything like that, but killing trees for no real reason was lame. That’s why I liked this spot. Rocks aren’t alive, and there were plenty of good targets I could use.

Nigel pulled out his wand. It was twisted and polished, not straight like mine. Of course, wands could flex and wobble. They were almost like living entities unto themselves. When a mage turned sixteen, at least according to our tradition in the states, we used a crystal to enter a peculiar ethereal realm. The spirit that settled on our wands mimicked the spirit of the mage at the time, and so wands developed something of a personality.

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