The Librarian And The Knife Of Death by Brian Yansky

Author:Brian Yansky
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2024-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Unfortunately, I was a few minutes late getting to the library, and Mr. Rosenbottom was there waiting, fuming about missing three minutes of his time reading the New York Times but really just fuming at my being three minutes late.

He told me he knew the new mayor and had pull with him so he was definitely going to get me fired.

“You can try,” I said. “That’s your right as a member of the community.”

“You may have a lot of people fooled in this town, but not me. Someone who can’t be on time, doesn’t dress properly, and does not follow the rules should not be the librarian.”

“Hey, you’d make a good librarian, wouldn’t you?”

“Are you making fun of me?”

“Of course not. Maybe you should try to get appointed by the new mayor.”

He spun around and walked over to the table where the latest New York Times was waiting for him.

I went upstairs to the section where the librarians had written notebooks of notes on being the librarian. Some of these were only a few pages long, but some of them were whole notebooks. I closed my eyes and tried to see through my third eye into which notebook might have something on the Knife of Death. I couldn’t really see, so I tried trusting that my third eye might see without telling the other two and I picked one of the notebooks.

Before I could sit down with it, a demon appeared about three feet in front of me. I tensed. But then I saw it was my brother, Dread, the one who had helped get me out of a cell where I was being held by my sister, awaiting execution. The execution was going to require four horses, which was why she didn’t execute me right after she, as judge, found me guilty of treason. She had no facts, but, well, it was a trial in hell. Facts weren’t really important. My brother, along with my old friend Lola, who was now a demon, got me free.

Yes, the Lola who had maybe been responsible for Master Lee’s death had saved me from execution. She’d also tried to kill me at least once when she and some of Lucifer’s demons wanted to invade Eden.

“She didn’t kill you,” I said, referring to Lilith, our sister, who I thought might discover he was involved and consider his betrayal worthy of death.

“Father stepped in,” he said. “He wasn’t too happy with Lilith’s trying to kill you after he ordered that no one harm you. He gets a little testy when someone ignores his orders.”

“Take away one of her credit cards?” I said.

“Actually, he gave her a choice. Twenty-four hours of torture or lose her second favorite castle.”

“Tough love,” I said.

“Well, she did disobey him,” Dread said.

“You’re serious?”

“You don’t disobey father.”

“I think someone may have told him what you said at your trial too, which got him thinking she might be about to make a power move. No one is more dangerous to a tyrant dictator or king than his family.

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