Sorcerer's Luck (The Runemaster Book 1) by Kerr Katharine

Author:Kerr, Katharine [Kerr, Katharine]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Book View Cafe
Published: 2013-07-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Even though I’d finished my project, I went to class Friday, just to check in and show the prof that I took her course seriously. She told me I could go home if I wanted, so I did. Tor had already made arrangements with his guy friends to play basketball in a nearby schoolyard, but he suggested that I come pick him up around noon.

“We’re only good for a couple of hours,” he said, “and I’d like you meet my friends.”

“Sure. After all, you’ve met some of mine.”

“But look, let me warn you about Aaron. He can be real hard to take at times. Asperger’s Syndrome. Know what that is?”

“Oh yeah. He’s the hacker guy, right? I guess it’s really common in people with that kind of computer skill.”

“Well,that’s what I’ve read. I guess it’s true.” He shrugged. “The other guys are okay. We all kind of look out for Aaron, though.” All at once he grinned. “Well, we like to think we’re okay. Some people would think studying sorcery is weird.”

I said nothing—really loudly, apparently, because he laughed.

“It doesn’t take sorcery to know what you’re thinking,” Tor said. “Okay. I’m strange. I know it. In fact, when I was in kindergarten I got labeled a high-functioning autistic. That’s why my father took me out of public school.”

“You’re certainly not! Why—”

“We’d just come to this country about eight months before. My English wasn’t real good. People acted differently than they did in Iceland. I’d been raised to be quiet and not get in the grown-ups’ way. The other kids all ran around shouting. I didn’t know what in hell I was supposed to do, so I sat in a corner and just watched. When my father tried to explain all this to the school, they brushed him off. I wasn’t real sure what was happening, but I do remember him coming home in a towering rage. He told my mother, that’s it! Homeschooling!”

“I can see why. Were you part of an organized program? Play dates, science classes with other kids, that kind of thing?”

“Oh yeah. My mother saw to that. And I learned early not to tell people that my father was teaching me sorcery. So did Liv. He homeschooled her, too.”

Before Tor left, he warned me that the cleaning women would be coming. Although he vacuumed out his workshop himself, Tor had hired one of those franchise housecleaning services to take care of the heavy work in the upstairs flat. Every month he consulted the lunar calendar before he made the appointments, just to make sure they wouldn’t arrive on a full moon day.

Around ten in the morning, a pair of business-like young women in matching black pants and striped shirts appeared at the door. The shy one set right to work in the kitchen, where Tor had left a plastic basket of cleaning supplies. The other woman, Meg, whom I judged to be a few years older, stopped to talk with me.

“How long does it take you to do the flat?” I asked.

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