The Immortal's Key by P.D. Workman

Author:P.D. Workman [Workman, P.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: pd workman

Chapter Sixteen

Despite her misgivings, Reg’s stomach rumbled when the waiter set her dinner plate in front of her. She inhaled the fragrant steam and sighed. “This is the best. I don’t think I could ever be vegetarian.”

Corvin eyed her. She knew what he was thinking, but he kept the comment to himself. She didn’t need him to remind her that she was confirming what he had told her before. That it was in his nature to consume the powers of others just as much as it was in her nature to eat the fish that was on the plate in front of her. Changing that about him would have been trying to change what he was. And no one could change what he was. It was built into his genetic code. If genes were how magical nature was passed from father to son.

They ate in silence for a few minutes, each appreciating their meals. Corvin took a drink.

“So what did you learn from Harrison? Did he tell you anything, or was it all just more questions?”

Reg sighed. “He answered some things. But they were things I didn’t want to know. The things that I want to understand, he doesn’t answer or says he doesn’t know, which is stupid, because he’s supposed to be all-knowing and all-powerful, isn’t he?”

Corvin cut a neat bite out of his scallops. “I think you’re confusing immortals with the Christian god. The Greeks and other cultures with a pantheon of gods never claimed that they were all-knowing or all-powerful. Sometimes they were remarkably short-sighted. They just claimed that they couldn’t be killed, or if they could, it was only temporary.”

“So Harrison doesn’t know everything.”

“Obviously not.”

“Just like the Witch Doctor didn’t know where to find Weston.”

Corvin looked up at that. He laid down his fork for a moment. “And who, may I ask, is Weston?”

“You don’t know him?”

“How would I know him?”

“I thought if there were stories about all of these immortals, you would already know who he was. There aren’t any stories about him?”

“I don’t know. They are often known by many different names. They might have different names and different roles in one culture. And then when you add in multiple cultures, there are even more. I would have to know more about his nature and the things he has done. Then I might be able to figure out his other names.”

“I don’t know much about him. I know that he’s… not exactly hiding from the Witch Doctor, but hidden. He broke the rules and so he was bound. Or bound himself. Somehow there was a consequence, and he was hidden from the others.”

“Who wanted to do what to him?”

“He and Harrison are friends, I think. But the Witch Doctor is an enemy, and he hoped to destroy Weston while he was still… in hibernation or whatever kind of state he was in. But the Witch Doctor couldn’t find him, and Weston didn’t manage to get out of this prison he’s in. Harrison and the Witch Doctor thought that he would be near Norma Jean so that she could let him out.

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