Wizard for Hire (Felix Freeman Series Book 1) by Jack Simmonds

Author:Jack Simmonds [Simmonds, jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: jack simmonds

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The Wizarding Duel of Tintagel

To try and explain what I was feeling in that moment is a disservice to feelings, with my limited vocabulary. But I will try my best; when I first started working in London, I didn’t know the area, nor the public transport well. And unknowingly, got off the Underground late at night, at the wrong stop. Walking around a council estate trying to find a taxi, I suddenly realised I was being watched by a gang with hoods up on their tracksuits. They saw me in my suit and executive leather bag and must have thought: easy pickings. There was this moment, when I saw them, and they saw me, when neither did anything. In that moment of standoff, the world seemed to stop. Like when an antelope spots a lion stalking it—it freezes up.

Right then, with those wayward, violent children watching me, I felt like an antelope. Fortunately, I ran track and field for my school, so when they did give chase, I sprinted terrified out of the estate, until I found a taxi.

But there was no such way out of this situation, facing a man of magic who stood in the only exit to safety.

This man whom we knew as the Creep, stood gallantly atop a rock, long grey mac flapping in the wind. A gambler cowboy hat, pulled down at the front, covered most of his face. The Creep spoke in a voice softer than I expected, a gentle serenity to it, with an accent that I would attribute to someone of class and nobility. “I would appreciate it if you could give me back my dog.”

Felix replied cautiously, voice echoing off the rock. “Your dog?”

The Creep gathered from this that we were not ordinary members of the public, that we knew what this dog was. I could not make out a change on the Creep’s face through the darkness, but the silence spoke volumes.

Felix’s right arm went stiff by his side, before, with the action of a gunslinger, he jerked his whole arm, shooting his wand into his hand.

“Maybe I shall rephrase my request… give me the dog or I will end both of you.”

His politeness had vanished faster than my confidence. Now the Creep extended his arm, displaying a thin piece of light coloured wood, held tightly. This was a warning.

Felix took a tentative step forward and whispered. “Step back Norton, keep the dog safe.”

Sure, keep the dog safe, don’t worry about me. Christ.

“Just give him the dog,” I whispered back. “We will die. We can prove our innocence another way.” I begged as the two wizards stepped closer to one another.

Holding tight to Harry’s lead, I pulled him back as he continued to bark incessantly, taking partial shelter behind a nook in the cave wall.

“How would you like to die?” called the Creep. “A hole through the heart, or drown in this cave?”

Felix suddenly screamed: “Fuck you!” Before launching himself forward, wand outstretched.

Whizz. Fizz. BANG!

There it was, the sound of

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