By Benedict Jacka
Alex Verus is a part of an international hidden in simple sight, working a magic store in London. And whereas Alex's personal powers aren't as showy as a few mages, he does have the good thing about foreseeing the potential future--allowing him to tug off operations that experience a million-to-one-chance of good fortune.
But while Alex is approached via a number of factions to crack open a relic from a long-ago mage struggle, he is familiar with that whatever's inside of has to be past robust. and because of his talents, Alex can expect that by means of taking the task, his odds of survival are approximately to move from narrow to none...
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She cried, leaping up from the grass. The black book tumbled to the ground. ” Yumiko closed her mouth with a gentle little sound. ” she said, her brow creased as a page. ” The girl stood, her braid slipping entirely loose, and stood very close, so close they might have kissed. She reached for Sei’s blouse and began to slide the buttons from their stitched eyelets. Sei pushed her away, but Yumiko smiled. “Please,” she murmured. Yumiko opened the crisp black shirt like a theater’s curtains. There, on Sei’s skin, were the strange dark lines, snaking across her sternum, arcing slightly onto the curve of her breasts.
The knots slacken, fall away. The four of them walk out, across the frond-threshold, into the night which smells of sassafras and rum, and onto broad, cinnamon-colored Hieratica Street. They stumble into the cane-strewn night, their feet filthy, their heads swimming with the winds of a not-too-distant sea. This is the part I like best. When they are so new. Newborn colts are not so innocent. The frog pushes them out of her shop like a mother urging her children toward the coach on their first day of school: Never fear, my darlings!
Their feet, benumbed, are overrun by crickets with glass wings. There are obvious things to say, but none of the four of them can find a voice buried in their ribs. Will you stand there forever? Will you become a piece of statuary on which children will swing and clover will grow? No—here is a gilded cart drawn by twin herons, their long black legs rustling the street-leaves. Out of the green-curtained window the head of a third heron, spectacularly turquoise, extends, eyes narrowed to avian slits.
