The Scofflaw Magician by Raconteur Honor

Author:Raconteur, Honor [Raconteur, Honor]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery, Kidnapping, Magic, YA, puzzle solving, Artifactor, Fantasy, Honor Raconteur, young adult, Raconteur House, fae, Adventure
Publisher: Raconteur House
Published: 2015-11-19T08:00:00+00:00

“Aran.”

“Yes, Sevana.”

“You should have warned me about the lizards.”

“They are komodo dragons.”

“They are lizards that are the size of a horse and are poisonous. Poisonous lizards that are eyeing me like I would make a good after-dinner snack. And you should have warned me.”

Aran was very careful not to smile but she knew he was laughing internally at her. “They are nice lizards. They won’t bite.”

She eyed the two komodo dragons with distinct distrust. They really were huge, not perhaps as big as a horse, but still quite large. They were a color close to granite grey, reptilian eyes focused on her with unswerving attention. If not for the two Fae that were standing right next to her, she would have pulled out a wand and frozen them on the spot. Alas, her hosts would likely be displeased with her for doing so.

Forus was the guardian of the storerooms, or something equivalent to it, and it had been he that Alyan had taken them to. He was much older than any of the Fae she had met, his pale skin and hair looking more translucent than real, giving him the air of a breathing ghost. Still, he was the first to greet her with a perfectly human handshake, which put her somewhat at ease with him.

“The komodo dragons are the second line of defense to our storerooms,” Forus informed her in his thin, wispy voice. “The first of course being the forest itself.”

Sevana would have thought that an exaggeration if not for the fact that she had seen the forest act as a barrier with her own eyes.

“How easy is it to get past them?” she asked Forus, keeping a weather eye on the lizards as she spoke.

“It is not.”

That was probably Fae-speak for ‘impossible.’ Right.

Forus turned to the komodo dragons and said something in a hissing string of sounds. At least, she assumed he was speaking to them, as they reacted as if they understood exactly what he said. They turned as one, putting their backs to the group, and split up to go around different sides of the building.

For once, it was an actual building, made of layers of stone. It was so perfectly laid that she couldn’t find a trace of mortar anywhere, the chinks fitting neatly together. It was not of a stone that she recognized, and Sevana assumed it to be a native rock of this region. All around the top of the flat roof was a canal of water, which let out over the doorway in a small waterfall that was caught and carried around another canal that went around the base of the building. It looked as if they had taken advantage of a natural brook, or would have, if it didn’t wrap around perfectly.

“The water, I take it, is another defense?”

“Running water is powerful, a connecting force, and we use it to power the shield that is in place here.” Forus gave her a discerning study. “You know this.”

“Running water is something I use often in my spells and devices,” she admitted frankly.

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