Song of Discord by D. R. Rosier

Author:D. R. Rosier [Rosier, D. R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2019-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

The site was out in the middle of nowhere outside the city. I’d never expected to have gone back there, but the four of us approached slowly in one of the company’s sedans. Jeris had an active detect magic spell going, so I couldn’t even fart without being outed as a dragon just then.

When we got out, there were no songs nearby, but I knew that didn’t mean much, the prison went very deep into the ground, and they’d be beyond my range. Plus, all that stone would mute the songs below as well. Generally, I could feel inside a building, even better in Corpus Christie by the water, but not through hundreds of yards of stone and dirt.

We got out of the car, and slowly approached the door.

“Anything?”

Jeris frowned, “There’s no magic here by the door at all.”

That… wasn’t such a big surprise I supposed. With the inmates dead, there’d have been no one in there to power the ward system, which had been destroyed anyway. If I remembered right, Harold had to levitate the door so we could escape last time, but I’d been pretty beat up at the time.

Lisa grunted, “Maybe they didn’t want to giveaway someone was here, to anyone that might come into the state park and wander by here. Can you levitate the door?”

Jeris tilted his head, “Maybe, that’s a lot of stone.”

Jeris frowned, and then walked closer and started to examine the glyphs.

“This isn’t right,” he pointed at a few spots, “Those glyphs aren’t part of the original wards on this door. I think… they’re glyphs for a levitation spell.”

Cerise said, “So, open it.”

Jeris scowled at his partner, “There are four of them, which means four mages usually do the work. I could probably get it open, but I’ll be magically spent for a while if I do.”

It was a bit frustrating. I’d been on the other side, I’d been in the main chamber. I could answer all our questions with a simple scry, or simply reach out with a little magic to see if there was gulf water on the other side of the door. I couldn’t do any of that without outing myself of course.

I asked, “What do you think, we could take this as proof that someone has been mucking about in there. Call in the cavalry?”

Lisa shook her head, “It’s not enough. Open it Jeris, just a few inches. That will be enough to tell us if the place is still flooded by gulf water.”

She got down on her knees, and then pulled out a flashlight.

Jeris sighed, and he started to chant. The magic gathered and swirled around him as it focused, split, and was sent into the four runes. The rock rumbled and scraped loudly, as it raised a few inches.

Lisa cursed, “Drop it!”

Jeris cut off the spell, and the large stone door ground and banged back to the floor.

Lisa pulled out her phone, and she hit the screen a few times before holding it up to her ear.

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