Spencer, Wen Tinker 2 Wolf Who Rules

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.""But I don't know what to do.""I know you don't." Maynard said but didn't add anything more which would have been a big help.There was pulse from Forest Moss and this time the building wasn't empty.She and Forest Moss picked up two people still inside on the second floor.A shout went up.Tinker turned to see the Wyvernsswarmed in through the door of tiny second-hand shop.Like flashbulbs going off, she felt spells flaringthe small rooms into brilliance, one after another.The Wyverns quickly worked to room with the hiddencouple."Oh, no." Tinker started for the store.Stormsong pulled her short."They are only killing oni."Was that supposed to make it better? Much as she hated the kitsune, she didn't want to see Chiyobeheaded.She didn't want Riki anymore dead than she wanted Nathan hurt."We can't go in there it would be asking for fight." Stormsong kept hold of her."One we can not win.Wait.Please."Much as she wanted to protect the strangers, she couldn't bear the thought of sacrificing hersekasha.Tinker nodded numbly and pulled out of Stormsong's hold."Let's get closer."Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlShe lost sight of the storefront beyond the wall of backs.This time hersekasha had to clear a path,pushing people aside to make what they thought was a wide enough path for her.Maybe if she was anelephant.The Wyverns muscled out only one person.They dragged him to a white-haired elf, announcing, "Wekilled one inside it tried to run.This one is spell marked, but it was with an oni."It was Tommy Chang."Kill him." The maledomana said."No!" Tinker plunged forward, forced her way through the towering Wyverns to Tommy's side."Don'thurt him!"The white haired elf turned and Tinker gasped at the damage done to his face."Ah, what honest horror!" The half-blinded elf said."You must be the child bride.Not much to you how did you come out in one piece?""Because they underestimated me." Tinker tugged Tommy's arm out of the wyvern's hold."Look, he'sbeen tested.He's not oni.""He might be mixed blood," said the half-blinded elf."Who gives a flying fuck?" Tinker snarled in English."Domi," Stormsong murmured behind her."He's not one of them." Tinker switched back to High Elvish."How do you know?" Forest Moss asked."From what I hear, the tengu fooled you."She was not going to let them kill someone she knew.She stared at Tommy, trying to remembersomething that would prove he was what she thought he was to herself as much as to them.Maddeningly, he said nothing in his own defense, just stood there, wrapped in his bulletproof cool.Didn'the know that no one was swordproof?True, she'd trusted Riki blindly, but she didn't know oni existed, and had awarded him the trust she gaveall strangers.Her world had been a different place not so long ago."I know because " she started in order to stall them.Because she'd known Tommy half her life.Hisfamily had owned a restaurant in Oakland since before Startup.He'd been a driving force organizing thehoverbike racing, and most summers she saw him on a weekly basis.He wasn't a stranger.She wouldn'timmediately say he was "good" people.He had a temper and a reputation of being ruthless when it cameto business; that didn't make him any more evil than her.She suspected the elves wouldn't accept thosefacts as a good argument for his humanity.Riki had proved her judgment was flawed.What could she say as proof that these elves would accept? They were growing impatient for heranswer.Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html"Because " and then unexpectedly, Riki provided the answer."Because when the tengu came lookingfor me, he didn't know where to find me."That puzzled them, which was fine, as she needed to cram a lot into this argument to make it sound."Two years ago, Tommy bought a custom delta hoverbike off me.He needed to write a check, andthere were the pink slips forms to show transfer of ownership for tax reasons.I told him my humanname, which was Alexander Graham Bell." Which of course triggered a round of teasing from Tommy,and occasionally afterwards, he'd call her 'Tinker Bell.' "I even told him why I was called that." In truth,she had been trying to stem the teasing with a sympathy play since Tommy's mother had also beenmurdered."And that my father was the man who invented the orbital gate.I told him he didn't tell theoni."That seemed to buy it for the Wyverns.They released their hold on Tommy.Magic suddenly flared across her senses, like a gasoline pool catching flame.Tinker spun around butthere was nothing to see.Forest Moss made a motion, and she turned to watch him call on the StoneClan Spell Stones and use the magic to trigger his shields.Around them, the Wyverns and her Hand wentalert."What was that? Did you feel that?" She asked Forest Moss."It was a spell breaking." Forest Moss cocked the fingers of his left hand and brought them to his mouth."Ssssstada."The spell Forest Moss triggered was a variation of the ground radar.A long, narrow wedge of powerformed from the male elf to the river's edge.He shifted his right hand, and the wedge swept northwardthrough Chinatown.At the heart of the Chinatown, he hit an intense writhing of power."How odd," Forest Moss said."What is that?" Tinker noted that Tommy, being smart, had vanished while they had been distracted.Forest Moss gave her an odd look."It's a ley scry.It lets me see recent and active disturbances in theley lines.I don't know what that spell was supposed to do, but it just violently altered, and it's now actingas a pump on afiutana.""Oh shit.The black willow."* * *The great doors of the refrigerated warehouse stood open to the summer heat.Magic flowed down overthe loading down in a purple haze of potential.Tinker cautiously pulled the Rolls around, trying to anglethe car so they could see into the cave darkness, but the dock was too high, and the door, facing theafternoon eastern sky, was cave dark.Tinker flicked on the headlights, but even the high beams failed toilluminate the interior."I want a closer look." Tinker put the Rolls into park.She wished she could leave the engine running, butit would be a mistake with this much free magic in the area.She got out and the sekasha followed.Magic flooded over her, hot and fast.The heat tossed the chimesGenerated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlon the ley shrine, making them jangle in shrill alarm.A smell like burnt cinnamon mixed with a taste likeheated honey.The invisible brilliance hinted by the shimmering purple made her eyes water."Be careful." She blinked away tears."The magic is all around us.""Even we can see that." Stormsong's shields outlined her in hard, blue radiance."Your shields,domi [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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