Sleight of Hand by Kessler A.L

Author:Kessler, A.L.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blood & Ink Press
Published: 2020-06-24T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

After the night I had, I’d called Moses in and let him run the store for the day. I was going to take it easy and work on my character sheet for the session tomorrow night.

My arms were okay, and after a shower and another inspection, there were a couple spots that looked like they might blister, but there was no serious damage. My brain was still trying to figure out that situation.

If it had been Calvin at the restaurant, there would be very little chance that he could have gotten to the shop that fast without magical intervention. It was rare for wizards to walk through walls and appear somewhere else. It was possible, but not common. Salazar was able to do it. I did it in a moment of fear and panic, but it wasn’t something that I wanted to retry.

I shook my head and went back to my character sheet and tried to come up with some details on my elf. She was a high elf on the quest to find her companion, a creature that was promised to her by fate, but she had to go through her own magical journey before it would be granted.

That was as far as I had gotten. She’d be a level one to start out with, and her attributes would be low. Her class would give her some advantages on the field, and I had her as a sorcerer.

I leaned back on my couch and tried not to jump when my phone rang.

“Hello?”

“I just wanted to see how you feel.” Trace’s voice was on the other end. “I saw that you didn’t come in today.”

“Yeah, I was just tired. I called Moses, and then I went back to bed. My arms are fine, just a couple spots that might blister. I was lucky.”

“You were lucky because you were wearing a long sleeve shirt, and the cool air had dropped the coffee’s temperature. I went to the coffee shop and found out that he’d stopped there a few minutes before we’d shown up at the shop.”

I frowned. “That meant he had to have known I was going to be late. We were about an hour and a half after closing.”

“Exactly. I wonder if maybe Tabitha tipped him off?”

“She had no idea who we were.”

Except I had given her my real name. Maybe I needed to start coming up with an alias when I was talking to people. It hadn’t sounded like she was in contact with Calvin, and if she was, it wasn’t friendly contact according to Maggie.

“Just be careful. I don’t know if the police went and talked to him or not after you put your report in.”

I didn’t either. I had just wanted to get home and out of my coffee-soaked clothes last night. “I’m not going anywhere today. Tomorrow night is the Magic and Dungeons session, so we’ll see how that works out.”

“Okay, I’ll let you be, and I’ll see you tomorrow.” He disconnected the call, and I set the phone down before going back to my character sheet.

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