Tales of the Otherworld
“I’d been operating in the supernatural black market for less than a year, and already I had a bounty on my head. I hadn’t yet decided whether that was a sign of success or stupidity.
I’d spent the afternoon teaching defensive spells to suburbanite teen witches who’d be better off learning karate. Given that it took them five minutes to cast a successful binding spell, I really hoped they never got cornered in a dark alley. But their mommies wanted them to learn—and were too busy to teach the gi...rls themselves—so I obliged…for a price.
But as happy as I was to leave the Stepford-family world of suburbia behind, it was a lot safer than my own neighborhood, where daytime gunfire added a nice touch of ambiance, but also meant that my corpse in the middle of the sidewalk wouldn’t be all that out of place. In the last few days, I’d discovered every alternate route to my apartment, and knew which would be cloaked by shadows at every time of day.
I took one of them now, casting sensing spells as I went and using my Aspicio powers to peer through corners before I stepped around them.MoreLess
I’d spent the afternoon teaching defensive spells to suburbanite teen witches who’d be better off learning karate. Given that it took them five minutes to cast a successful binding spell, I really hoped they never got cornered in a dark alley. But their mommies wanted them to learn—and were too busy to teach the gi...rls themselves—so I obliged…for a price.
But as happy as I was to leave the Stepford-family world of suburbia behind, it was a lot safer than my own neighborhood, where daytime gunfire added a nice touch of ambiance, but also meant that my corpse in the middle of the sidewalk wouldn’t be all that out of place. In the last few days, I’d discovered every alternate route to my apartment, and knew which would be cloaked by shadows at every time of day.
I took one of them now, casting sensing spells as I went and using my Aspicio powers to peer through corners before I stepped around them.MoreLess
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