The Empress wants to locate the descendants of her exiled sister. No magically-bonded Pair is more ill-suited for the job than long-suffering Shield Lee Mallorough and her all-too-charming Source Shintaro Karish. Yet it's a mission they can't refuse.
Fortunate that the debonair card sharp could find entertainment in being continually trounced by his amateur partner. I hoped to sometime play against someone who wasn’t Karish. I was pretty sure it was only our bond that gave me some kind of hunch about what kind of hand Karish had. The only way...
Most creatively. Most furiously. I hadn’t been expecting anger. That would imply he actually liked Karish, wouldn’t it? That he actually cared that something dangerous was happening to him? “What’s the problem?” “It’s—Don’t they—Doesn’t the person who did this know that if he kills Karish, he kil...
A nasty spell adequately performed. Well done. I blew on my hands and rubbed them. It was the middle of winter and everyone was finding it cold, even me. My students resented my insistence on lessons continuing to be held outside, but I thought flying shards of wood might be a bad idea indoors. A...
It would have been horrible to have something happen to them. “I’m relieved you suffered no injuries yesterday,” I said to them as I sipped on some excellent coffee. It seemed they always had excellent coffee. “It was a near thing,” Fiona answered. “There was all sorts of ...