SERRAted Edge #02 - Wheels of Fire by Mercedes Lackey & Mark Shepherd

Author:Mercedes Lackey & Mark Shepherd [Lackey, Mercedes & Shepherd, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Epic, Fiction, General, Contemporary, Fantasy Fiction
ISBN: 9780671721381
Google: 5YDRWBbnjBoC
Publisher: Baen
Published: 1992-09-30T22:00:00+00:00

He might leave the boy unguarded, or relatively unguarded. At the least he would leave the child alone, give him a chance to recover. IfAl could not get in, perhaps the boy could escape on his own.

So, it was up to Al to make Brothel-Joseph's life as miserable as possible. This, of course, would make Al's life infinitely more pleasurable. A man has to have a hobby he enjoys.

He only wished he could tell the boy's mother about this - that he could tell her he knew for certain that WHEELS OF FIRE 205

Tamie was here. But if he did, not only would he betray that there was something supernatural about himself, he might inadvertently tempt her into going into danger to save her child.

No. No, for all that it would comfort her, he could not tell herJamie was here. Not until he had something more concrete to offer her than that information alone.

So, back to work. How about a bit of blockage in some of the pipes that are not underpressure^ That should be amusing.

He knew those pipes that were attached to pumps, but the rest - only that they carried water. The Cold Iron interfered with his perceptions too much to be more specific than that. Right now Al could not tell whether the pipes took fresh water into the complex, or waste-water away, but in either case, there would be problems if he blocked the pipes - say, by reaching out, just so, and touching the pipes to make them malleable, then

- pinching them, and letting them harden.

There. That should do it. Not all at once - but like the electrical failures, these should cascade.

He withdrew his senses - carefully. He couldn't detect the Salamander, but that didn't mean it didn't have ways of watching the world from wherever it was hiding. More than Cold Iron, he feared it.

I couldn't defeat it back then; I don't think I can do so now.

The best way to deal with it for the moment is to avoid it. It can do nothing without human help and a human to work through.

He considered what he had accomplished, as he molded himself to the trunk of the tree he had chosen and scanned the area for more guards.

Another pair of them passed about twenty feet away from his tree, peering from time to time through something attached to the top of their rifles. It wasn't until after they had passed that he realized what those instruments must have been.

Nightscopes.

206 Mercedes Lackey &? Mark Shepherd He belatedly recognized them from the action-adventure movies he'd watched over the years, in city after city, racetrack after racetrack, late at night when the humans slept and there was little for him to do.

Nightscopes: instruments that gave humans the ability to see like an owl or one of the Sidhe at night. He wasn't exactly certain how they worked - but he shivered, realizing that the only reason the men had missed sighting him was that they simply hadn't been looking through the nightscopes when they passed him.

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