Steps sounded behind me. I turned. Runa caught up with us. “Matilda said you would be out here. That child is odd.” More like unsettling, until you got to know her. “She’s an animal mage. They are unique. Did something bad happen?” “You mean in addition to everything else? No.” We both watched Shadow sniffing at …
Just You Wait
My cell rang. An unlisted number. Oh good. Ten to one, somebody wanted to sell me super-special medical insurance or inform me that the IRS was about to arrest me unless I dropped everything and bought an armful of gift cards at Wal-Mart. I answered it. “What is it?” “You’re tracking me,” Alessandro said. Runa’s eyes went big. “I am …
Snippet: A Simple Menu
Just a few things on a weekday morning... :) Since it was my turn to cook breakfast anyway, I headed to the kitchen. Cooking was basically my and Mom’s job. When Nevada lived with us, she was too busy keeping us fed and clothed. Bern and Leon usually made meat, preferably, steak, and they served it charred on top and raw in the middle. Grandma …
When English Language is Just Not Enough
Warning: hilariously odd bad language ahead. Poor Catalina. Bug served as Rogan’s surveillance specialist. Magically altered, he processed visual information at an astonishing rate. If anybody could find [Redacted], Bug could. He was also fanatically loyal to Rogan. The moment we involved Bug, Rogan would know every detail of what we asked …
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On Rants, Well Deserved Nature Of
“As I’ve pointed out four times now, this entire incident has been recorded by security cameras. The footage will show that Ms. Etterson and I were attacked without provocation and we defended ourselves as is our right under Article 3 paragraph 1 through 4 of the House Protection Act.” “Is that so?” Sgt. Munoz’s eyebrows crept up a quarter of an …
On Flowers
K. asks, Why did Nevada care so much about the flowers at the wedding? I didn't like how bridezilla she was. They were symbolic. Rogan's mother is an expert on all things Prime and she understood that they had to have a large public wedding. Rogan and Nevada made a ton of enemies through the trilogy, and Victoria Tremaine is a pariah, whom …