Twisted Magic: A Dark Fantasy Romance (Renegades of Magic Book 3) by Jeffe Kennedy

Author:Jeffe Kennedy [Kennedy, Jeffe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy
Publisher: Brightlynx Publishing
Published: 2023-11-27T18:30:00+00:00

~ 15 ~

“Clearly not actually impossible,” Alise pointed out, not above enjoying turning a bit of pedantry back on Cillian, though he seemed oblivious. “I was willing to accept that I couldn’t find the House Phel archives, but if you can’t, then they must be missing. Simple logic.”

“There’s nothing logical about this. There must be some other explanation.” He sounded as if he were asking a question, but not of her. Instead, his accusing glare roved over the library at large, as if it had somehow failed him.

“Are any other house archives missing?” she asked.

Now he fastened his offended gaze on her. “Archives don’t go missing,” he answered crossly. “That’s the whole point of archives, to preserve and keep them.”

“But would you know if others were missing?” she persisted. “You didn’t know the House Phel archives were missing.”

He spread his hands wide in frustration. “How are you supposed to notice something that isn’t there? It’s not as if they left empty shelves behind, a big, glaring gap shouting ‘hey, look, stuff used to be here and it’s gone now…’” He trailed off, awful understanding dawning on his face.

“Who would ‘they’ be?” Alise asked, pouncing on the opportunity. When Cillian stared at her blankly, she waved a hand. “Who could do that? Who could remove the archives of an entire house and rearrange the shelves so no evidence remained that a significant number of documents had disappeared?”

“Nobody,” he answered, stricken. “I mean a librarian theoretically could have the access, but no one would. Certainly not anyone from Harahel. That goes against everything we stand for.”

Somehow, she absolutely believed him. That didn’t mean there weren’t wizards in his house who would act otherwise, but Cillian was totally earnest. “Would someone in Harahel have the knowledge in their heads? You know, memorized.”

He considered that, then shook his head. “Unlikely. The houses, especially high houses, tend to be proprietary about their records and don’t like anyone looking at them who isn’t properly authorized. Most of these are keyed to house members only,” he added sadly.

“I’d noticed that. Why store the records here at Convocation Center here if no one can read them?”

“Not no one,” he corrected in his pedantic way, but she found the trait charming enough that it didn’t bother her. “There are channels for authorization. When Lord Gabriel Phel registered to reinstate the house, he’d have received authorization, along with the ability to authorize others, which he could then convey as he saw fit. So we know the archives had to have been here when he received the Convocation blessing and…” Cillian trailed off, arrested by whatever he saw in Alise’s face. “The archives were not here then,” he said on a breath of realization.

Curse her transparent expressions. This would be tricky to navigate, but it was already too late. It wasn’t a question so much of trusting the librarian wizard as enlisting him to her cause at this point. Better to have his help than reporting back on her. “No, they weren’t.

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