SMOKE AND BLADES by D Elias Jenkins

Author:D Elias Jenkins [Jenkins, D Elias]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-10-05T05:00:00+00:00

She had come to interview an expert in Eastern magic on the recommendation of High Councilor Crawl. The Mist Priests of Tiger bay and beyond had taken death magic to a far higher level than mages of the West, who considered it taboo. Dr. Praig Salt had been a scholar and former lecturer at All Souls College and had also spent twenty years travelling the east and learning from their experts. Maeve hoped that learning about the ritual this Vigilante had undergone would offer some clue as to how to find him and stop him. She parked her dart and walked the steep winding cobbled streets of the town.

Almost everyone in Longforgotten was connected to the business of magic in some way. Downtrodden students wrapped in scarves carried heavy volumes up and down the steep streets to be delivered to one academic or another.

The lower levels were dedicated to workshops and foundries where the profitable business of merging sorcery and machinery was advanced. The very contraption that brought her here was developed in the Gurrion Brother’s famous workshop in the lower town. Their custom darts sold for thousands of Florreks in Free Reign.

The upper levels of the sloping town were where the physicians, academics and theorists lived and worked. It was here that Maeve had arranged to meet Dr. Salt on the steps of the Brightside Library. She stopped half way up the precipitous street to buy a hot chocolate from a cute little café, and as she sipped it wondered why a town as ingenious as this had not thought to install a tram system to convey people up this fucking hill.

By the time she reached the town square her thighs were already burning. She imagined that a few years in Longforgotten would produce athletes as well as academics.

Through the scattering of students shuffling through the stubborn nubs of snow on the cobbles, Maeve saw a wiry man in a thick wool coat and eyeglasses clutching a copy of the daily journal. He clearly marked her uniform from a distance as he offered a small wave and polite smile.

Maeve returned the smile as she approached and waited for some students to pass before extending her hand.

“Dr. Salt? Thank you for seeing me. I believe my Chief Inspector contacted you in advance via the stream?”

Dr. Salt shook her hand warmly and retreated up a step to match her height.

“Yes I got the message this morning over breakfast. It’s always nice when someone takes an interest Inspector. Most people are very Reign-centric and forget there is a big wide mysterious world out there. So you want to discuss the practices of eastern mist-priests with me, in relation to a case you’re working on? I must say during my time in the islands of the Pearl Nations I came across…”

The voice of the amiable little academic had already faded to a distant drone in Maeve’s mind. Her attention was caught by a sign on the door next to the library. The purple

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