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unzipped it and opened it to find my net. I had put a small net with weights sewn into its edges in my pack. I found it, and then I motioned for Corbin to move us back over the shrub. When I thought we were directly above the bush, I dropped it. Before the net landed on it, the frog jumped up entangling itself in the net. Corbin was faster than I was, and he shot it with his tranquilizer dart. Stunned, it sagged against the net, twitched a few times before it went still.
    Corbin made me take the controls, and he jumped down beside it, tying it securely in the net. I lowered the hovercraft down until I was about six feet above the ground. Corbin sprang up and landed on the craft’s runners. He hopped up behind me and we radioed for the transport to pick us up. After we were safely back onboard the transport, we caged our frog. When we landed, I immediately transported us to my office, and we examined the frog. The sedative wouldn’t last much longer, and who knew what nasty little surprises the frog might have for us.
    I studied the frog thoroughly with my eyes and didn’t see anything, so I called on my second sight and scanned the frog again. Gotcha. I found a magical signature under the frog’s front leg, copied the runes, and then put the frog back in its cage. I examined the runes and compared them to the ones I’d found earlier. Damn it, they didn’t match. I got out my Grimoirie and thumbed through it.
    “Did you find anything useful?”
    “Maybe. All the runes have the same first two letters, which is the signature of the maker. Now I’m going to search for any wizard using that same signature. It might be a waste of time because there are too many of them. Still, we might find one that is famous or much more likely infamous enough to be recognized. You get something to eat and I’ll call you if I find something.”
    Corbin left, and I sat down to pour through the book. I looked for close to an hour and was giving up when I had another idea. I closed the book and went to search through my tomes on the dark arts. I’m banned from using dark spells. However, I needed to know what one looked like on the rare occasion I stumbled onto one. I swear the book gave off dark energy, it seemed to pulse menacingly. I had liberated it from a rogue wizard we killed a couple years ago.
    I scanned the book, comparing the first two letters of the runes to any I found in the book. No luck with the first two letters, but I did find the frog’s last two symbols. I scrutinized the writing, reading and rereading to be sure. That’s when my eyes nearly bugged out of my head. Holy shit. I grabbed the frog’s cage and threw it into my salt enclosed circle, and hastily threw a shield over it. Then I dove behind my pyramid just as the frog exploded. I’d saved a lot on repairs once I learned to throw a shield around myself or my possessions.
    “Lauren, are you all right? What in the hell was that thing?” he asked, as he surveyed what was left of the frog.
    “The frog was set to explode if it was separated from its territory for more than an hour. Clever. This assures none of the familiars can be used against our wizard. I’ve still got a few more places I want to check. There are only a handful of wizards capable of using a spell that dark.”
    “What about the fae? I thought they had their own magic.”
    “You make a good point, we can’t rule out wild magic. I’ll see if there is anything on them in my library. I still might not find anything. They’re pretty secretive, and I am in no position to ask for favors.”
    “Miss Congeniality you aren’t, but I might be able to help you with this one. One of my friends who is a white court vampire prince has glamoured almost every race during his long lifetime. I’ll contact him while you finish. Don’t raise your eyebrows at me, he has a cell phone.”
    I chuckled when he left and then I got to work. Try as I might, I couldn’t come up with anyone, this only meant he or