Contents:
Chapter One:
Chapter Two:
Chapter Three:
Chapter Four:
Chapter Five:
Chapter Six:
Chapter Seven:
Chapter Eight:
Chapter Nine:
Chapter Ten:
Chapter Eleven:
Chapter Twelve:
Chapter Thirteen:
Chapter Fourteen:
Chapter Fifteen:
Chapter Sixteen:
Chapter Seventeen:
Chapter Eighteen:
Chapter Nineteen:
Chapter Twenty:
Chapter Twenty-One:
Chapter One:
“There’s something to be said for relatives . . . it has to be said because it’s unprintable!”
– A. EINSTEIN
PERHAPS if I hadn’t been so preoccupied with my own thoughts when I walked into my quarters that day, I wouldn’t have been caught unawares. Still, who expects to get caught in a magikal attack just walking into their own room?
Okay, okay! So I am the Court Magician of Possiltum, and maybe I have been getting a bit of a reputation lately. I still should be able to walk into my own room without getting jumped! I mean, if a magician isn’t safe in his own quarters, can he be safe anywhere?
Scratch that question!
It’s the kind of thing my teacher says to convince me that choosing magic for a career path is not the best way to insure living out one’s normal life span. Of course, it doesn’t take much convincing. Actions speak louder than words, and the action since I signed on as his apprentice has been loud enough to convince me that a magician’s life is not particularly quiet. I mean, when you realize that within days of meeting him, we both got lynched by an angry mob … as in hung by the neck …
But I digress.
We started out with me simply walking into my room. Yeah, simple! There was a demon waiting for me, a Pervect to be exact. This in itself wasn’t unusual. Aahz, the teacher I mentioned earlier, is a Pervect. In fact, he shares my quarters with me. What was unusual was that the demon waiting for me wasn’t Aahz!
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