The Witches' Covenant (Twin Magic Book 2) by Dalton Michael

Author:Dalton, Michael [Dalton, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2015-03-20T04:00:00+00:00

17.

WALTHER WAS puttering away in his workshop when Johannes arrived.

Since he, Erich, and his daughters had returned from Köln, he had been trying to build a new, improved version of his resonance cube—Ariel having destroyed the first one as a result of her infatuation with Erich. He wanted one that would do more than simply compare flows. Walther thought it would be useful to also be able to analyze them somehow, but as that was a skill more tied to naturalism and mysticism, he had run into some problems. He thought it would be possible to duplicate the naturalist approach with the right crystal enchantment, but doing that required some consultation with a mage who knew how to do it in the first place, which Walther did not.

He had asked Ariel and Astrid for help before the three of them had left, but not wanting to intrude too much on the first weeks of their marriage, he had not pressed the matter a great deal. Instead, he had been exchanging missives with Johannes, who had offered some suggestions.

The day after Erich and the girls left, Walther was eating lunch (or dinner, depending on how you wanted to look at it; he tended to lose track of time when he was tinkering) when another letter from Johannes arrived in Johannes’s brass crow. Walther had one just like it, save that it had a W engraved on the chest plate instead of a J. The automaton birds had been gifts from their friend Constantine, whom they had met during their studies at the university. Constantine had since taken a position with the House of Hessen in Marburg, but they used the crows to keep in touch. Constantine’s crow, naturally, had a C on its front.

Johannes had answered Walther’s most recent inquiry on his project, but most of the letter was taken up by something else entirely.

Walther read the letter with growing interest. He had been pondering the meaning of his daughters’ strangely blue marriage bond since that night, but had come up with no ideas. He had mentioned it to Johannes, who was intrigued but could not tell him much Walther did not know already.

Now, it seemed, that had changed.

Johannes—or rather, one of his colleagues—had discovered something important, and Johannes was convinced Ariel and Astrid were connected to it somehow. Walther did not know Dieter, but he had met his son Alfred, who worked with Johannes at the university. What Johannes told him was fascinating but baffling, and more than a little worrying. Walther had chosen life in a small town like Weilburg precisely to stay out of the political and ecclesiastical entanglements that often caught up prominent mages, and he wanted to keep it that way. That went double for his daughters.

But if Johannes was right, this was important enough to take the risk. Except, there was a slight problem.

Walther wrote back, explaining regretfully that Erich, Ariel, and Astrid had left, and that he did not expect to seem them again for some months.

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