Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

about it. Even though he was supposed to have no magic, anysenior officer could use magic on him and page him even inhis own universe.He woke with a start when the door to his bedroom burstopen. He thought it must be a nightmare when he sawColonel Samrova striding toward him, her jaw set and a bigugly pistol bobbing on her hip. She yanked the quilt from himwhile he was still paralyzed with sleep, she flipped him ontohis face and clapped cuffs on him. In a rare display of overtmagic, she flashed him into orange coveralls and boxers. Shewasn’t good with magic and had the boxers over the orangejumpsuit at first, and had to fiddle using a user interface onher phone to get it right.She yanked him to his feet, he could tell she had used hermed panel to set her strength to ‘Hercules’ by the way thecuffs bit into his wrists. By the time she started frog-marchinghim out of the home in the vale, he was fully awake. He hadchoices, but all of them would reveal that he had escaped hissentence. He wondered if Ava was back. Glayet either knewshe was back and was confident she was on her side, or shewas willfully ignorant of his true power.If Ava was back and he revealed what powers he hadgiven himself, they would soon be taken away. If he did notreveal himself, what could Glayet do to him? She could noterase him, she had no access to the grant list and wouldn’tknow how to edit it if she did. He thought about doingsomething minor like disabling the keypad on his front door120