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have any talents himself. Mom had tried to get him to attempt wizard training, but he never took to it. And his wife stopped pursuing Transmutation after passing her Rank Four trials. Neither of them wants Megan to manifest magic. They want her to have a normal life.
And that means no holiday visits from her dead grandmother.
“ For a person with how many years of psych training, you sure aren’t a good liar ,” says Mom.
“Mom, please…”
“Talk to your brother, Nancy. Just…for me. Talk to him?”
“I’ll talk to Scott, Mom.”
* * *
The shop is always so quiet after Halloween. Between witches placing last minute orders for must-have reagents and mundanes looking for “authentic” witch merchandise to create their costumes or for decoration, the shop was an almost non-stop center of activity. I’m thankful for that. I think all of the work involved in keeping the shop running forced me to remain focused on the task of dealing with Vivika without straying into the what-in-the-nine-hells-have-I-gotten-myself-into area. I think it was good for Houston as well. He just didn’t have a lot of time to dwell on the fact that we had to destroy his mother.
Risha talked him into going with her to Florida. The College of Psionics is having one of their conventions at the Walt Disney World Resort. Joshua Brynwolf, Lord Advocate of the Eighth of the Nine, paid for Houston’s tickets and expenses so he could attend. Houston didn’t have the money to make arraignments at the last minute. I would have found the money, but Brynwolf insisted.
I keep fluctuating back and forth regarding the Lord Advocate. At times, I see his interest in Houston as guilt. Brynwolf was the one tasked with eliminating Vivika. He’s the one that arranged for her original murder. The Nine had given the order. They had realized that Vivika was, in fact, Chana Magus, a Haemomancer that had developed a forbidden magic that allowed her to drain the life force of others to extend her own life. They had been trying to track her for centuries and finally caught up with her most recent incarnation. Her death had been made to look like a case of domestic violence. Her ex-husband killed her. No, he wasn’t being mind-controlled by the Lord Advocate. The Lord Advocate just shielded his intentions long enough for Vivika not to realize what was happening until it was too late.
Of course, Vivika had a contingency: her “niece” April. She had donated her eggs to her sister Ruth so Ruth could have a child. And in doing so, she created a host body to jump into upon death. She took over her niece’s body as an infant. It would have been the perfect escape if not for the fact April developed Leukemia. The disease killed her before she was old enough to join a College herself and get treatment. Which left Vivika without a host body.
We all knew she had to be destroyed. Houston most of all. She had betrayed his trust; living with him as his cousin and letting him believe she was gone. Trying to manipulate his life so he would father a child for her to possess. But I often feel Brynwolf still feels incredible guilt for what Houston went through because of that fateful night his biological father killed Vivika.
But then other times I start worrying that Brynwolf has other plans for Houston that I am not going to like. He seems to be firm in his belief that the man named on Houston’s birth certificate is not his actual father; that Houston’s real father was a witch and that Houston’s abilities are the result of not Imprinting but hereditary magic. Psions don’t have any great “families” in the College. Most psions develop spontaneously. So evidence of a strong hereditary psionic line would be a big deal. But I feel like there is more to it than purely academic interest.
And then my less-suspicious-self thinks maybe he just wants to mentor Houston, and it is really that simple.
Houston called me last night to tell me they had sat in on
And that means no holiday visits from her dead grandmother.
“ For a person with how many years of psych training, you sure aren’t a good liar ,” says Mom.
“Mom, please…”
“Talk to your brother, Nancy. Just…for me. Talk to him?”
“I’ll talk to Scott, Mom.”
* * *
The shop is always so quiet after Halloween. Between witches placing last minute orders for must-have reagents and mundanes looking for “authentic” witch merchandise to create their costumes or for decoration, the shop was an almost non-stop center of activity. I’m thankful for that. I think all of the work involved in keeping the shop running forced me to remain focused on the task of dealing with Vivika without straying into the what-in-the-nine-hells-have-I-gotten-myself-into area. I think it was good for Houston as well. He just didn’t have a lot of time to dwell on the fact that we had to destroy his mother.
Risha talked him into going with her to Florida. The College of Psionics is having one of their conventions at the Walt Disney World Resort. Joshua Brynwolf, Lord Advocate of the Eighth of the Nine, paid for Houston’s tickets and expenses so he could attend. Houston didn’t have the money to make arraignments at the last minute. I would have found the money, but Brynwolf insisted.
I keep fluctuating back and forth regarding the Lord Advocate. At times, I see his interest in Houston as guilt. Brynwolf was the one tasked with eliminating Vivika. He’s the one that arranged for her original murder. The Nine had given the order. They had realized that Vivika was, in fact, Chana Magus, a Haemomancer that had developed a forbidden magic that allowed her to drain the life force of others to extend her own life. They had been trying to track her for centuries and finally caught up with her most recent incarnation. Her death had been made to look like a case of domestic violence. Her ex-husband killed her. No, he wasn’t being mind-controlled by the Lord Advocate. The Lord Advocate just shielded his intentions long enough for Vivika not to realize what was happening until it was too late.
Of course, Vivika had a contingency: her “niece” April. She had donated her eggs to her sister Ruth so Ruth could have a child. And in doing so, she created a host body to jump into upon death. She took over her niece’s body as an infant. It would have been the perfect escape if not for the fact April developed Leukemia. The disease killed her before she was old enough to join a College herself and get treatment. Which left Vivika without a host body.
We all knew she had to be destroyed. Houston most of all. She had betrayed his trust; living with him as his cousin and letting him believe she was gone. Trying to manipulate his life so he would father a child for her to possess. But I often feel Brynwolf still feels incredible guilt for what Houston went through because of that fateful night his biological father killed Vivika.
But then other times I start worrying that Brynwolf has other plans for Houston that I am not going to like. He seems to be firm in his belief that the man named on Houston’s birth certificate is not his actual father; that Houston’s real father was a witch and that Houston’s abilities are the result of not Imprinting but hereditary magic. Psions don’t have any great “families” in the College. Most psions develop spontaneously. So evidence of a strong hereditary psionic line would be a big deal. But I feel like there is more to it than purely academic interest.
And then my less-suspicious-self thinks maybe he just wants to mentor Houston, and it is really that simple.
Houston called me last night to tell me they had sat in on
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