Monthly Archives: September 2010

Stepping off the trapdoor, I knocked again. Still no answer. “Fuck it,” I muttered, tapping my keyring against the door. To my surprise, it worked, and the door unlocked with a soft click that made me jump. I hadn’t quite expected that to work; surely the Irishman’s lair would have some kind of defense against magic, right? I turned the knob and pushed the door open. “Anybody home?” I called into the dark quiet. “Don’t skewer me or anything.” Irish’s trailer was a tired old single-wide. Enough light filtered in from the fluorescent lamps outside to see my way...

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“Whoa!” I put both hands up and dropped back a step. Polrowski unleashed his magic in a flash of brilliant white light that made my subtle strands and pools of darkness stand out all around us in stark relief. His spell hit me like a freight train, and the ground came quietly up behind me. For as much as that had hurt, it seemed like it should have been loud. The onslaught had come in silence, though, and I found myself staring dizzily up at the clouds up above. I struggled to pull a breath into my lungs while...

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“Who’s shooting at you, now?” Honey sounded more excited than concerned. A tad bit more fear or anxiety would have been touching, but maybe she knew me a little too well for that. After all, they were just bullets, right? Whereas I was Black Alice. “It’s the Order. Not Irish, though. Father Tanner had another Inquisitor with him. A girl.” I put her on speaker and tossed the phone down onto the passenger seat. It was time to pay more attention to defensive driving. I put the pedal down and the engine literally roared as the car surged forward....

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