Hannah pulls me through the twisting halls of the Ossuary’s depths, away from the central chamber and past private nooks. The music falls away and is replaced by echoing voices, whispering and indistinct, some crying out in pain or in…
The Ossuary isn’t that hard to find, if you know where to look. Since breaching it without the Morrigan’s approval is impossible, the only security concern is its patrons being targeted for choosing to frequent it, and that runs afoul…
“Everything that I am is yours to take… Dearest Katalina!” cries a deranged voice from my laptop’s speakers. “Oh, wow,” Sophia comments, “you really weren’t kidding about that girl.” “Vira’s great!” I say with a grin. “She’s not on the…
“I can’t wear that!” I protest, beet-red, at yet another skirt that looks like it would barely cover my ass. This is the fourth item in this store alone that I’ve turned down on scandal factor, so clearly I’m not…
Why do I want to take down Striga? Ferromancer’s question drives an ice pick through all my anxious thoughts about not seeing her again and replaces them with newer, much more anxious thoughts about why the hell she wants to…
The bank interior bears the soot marks from my flame and upended furniture from the speedsters. The crystal chandelier, that eyesore, is miraculously unharmed. Canary is still down for the count, Azure still encased. The teller I spoke to taps…
The Blurs live up to their name and reputation. Five seconds into the fight and I’m already on the back foot. Canary zips from onlooker to onlooker, systematically removing my beloved audience and repositioning them outside the bank. I catch…
In the last minutes before the heist—really more of a robbery, but heist sounds cool and exciting—I almost talk myself out of it. I mean, I’m about to rob a bank. Before today, I’ve never done a crime. I feel…
I don’t end up telling Ferromancer about my money troubles on Monday, or on Tuesday. It isn’t until the middle of the week that I manage to raise the topic, and even then it’s not really by choice. “Again.” The…
I’m starting to believe that my life might have been completely directionless before I became a witch. Well, that’s not exactly true. I was going in a lot of directions, they were all just terrible. But we’ll get to that.…