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Shadowrun Caroline Spector - Worlds Without End
I spun about and strode from the room. I had to
get to my grimoire. There were preparations to be
made.
When the last of my defenses was in place, I began
to relax a little. It concerned me that I might be
making even more of a target of myself. Strong
magic stuck out like a sore thumb these days. But it
didn't really matter, he'd already found me.
Caimbeui knocked on the door to my study.
"Go away," I said.
"Don't be difficult, Aina," he said. "Let me in."
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"No, no, dear Harlequin," I replied. "I don't wish
to trouble you."
I heard him sigh. Loudly and dramatically so I
would hear.
"Let me in," he said.
I walked over to the door and opened it.
"Oh, it's the great Harlequin come to pay a visit
to the poor unenlightened masses. Oh, please show
us your bountiful insight. We are honored by your
presence. May we kiss your hem?"
"I was a bit ... difficult," he began.
"No, you were an ass," I said.
"Very well, an ass. You always did get sarcastic
when you were upset."
"How insightful of you," I said. "But you've got
it a little wrong. I'm not upset. I'm scared. And if
you had a bit of sense, you'd be frightened too."
He began to circle my study slowly, gently touching
the books, totems, scrolls, and other bits of arcana
I'd carefully catalogued. Some was only
theory, some was practical. I knew he had an impressive
accumulation of his own, but I also knew
that I had been at this longer.
"What's this?" he asked, pulling a thick tome
from a shelf.
"That," I said as I walked over and plucked it
from his hand arid stuck it back on its shelf, "is none
of your concern. I'm certain you have five or six just
like it at home."
An annoyed and interested expression crossed his
face.
"I don't understand why you're so worried," he
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