‘Of course my Baal. I’ll make sure she’s watched,’ Kez said.
Yasmin turned back to Kez and something approaching a smile crossed her face. She reached up and touched Kez’s face gentle with her hand ‘What would I do without you Kez? Thank you.’ Yasmin leaned in and kissed Kez gently on her lips.
‘It’s my pleasure to serve you my Baal,’ Kez answered.
Yasmin did smile then. ‘Good. I’ll see you back home.’
‘Of course,’ Kez answered and watched as Yasmin disappeared. Kez looked back down at the lost looking girl. A friend of Amanda’s, Kez thought, she wouldn’t want to be her when Yasmin put into action whatever plans she had for this girl.
Epilogue 2
The Vatican
October 11th
‘Come in,’ Mary called out on hearing the feint knock on the door. She’d already okayed Augusto to come in through her secretary, but he always knocked as well, just to be polite.
The door opened and Augusto walked in. He wasn’t just one of her most competent knights; he also had a keen mind and a handsome face. Tall and dressed in a suit with long mousey hair down to his jawline with a well-kept goatee beard. He walked across the room, his long legs carrying him quickly to Mary’s desk.
‘Good morning Inquisitor,’ he said.
‘Morning Augusto, what can I do for you today?’ she said, eyeing the folder he held in his hands.
‘I have news of a Witch you have been after for a while. Amanda, it seems she’s turned up in New York.’
Mary sat back, suddenly interested in what Augusto had to say. ‘Go on.’
‘We’ve just found out that New York has been liberated from the control of Lucian who has been declared dead. No word on who killed him, but it’s the usual infighting amongst the Witches and Warlocks. And our source has discovered that Amanda has been living in New York for several months now. We’re now trying to ascertain if she had anything to do with Lucian’s death.’
‘New York, hmm, well, that fits with what we know about her past from the reports Vito brought in during his investigation.’
‘It does, and it looks like we were searching in the wrong location.’
‘Recently maybe, but I have a folder full of evidence that placed her in Europe working with the Legacy Coven going back two years until she disappeared six months ago.’ Mary pulled out the folder from the filing cabinet behind her and placed it on the desk, a few photos of a pretty red haired girl spilling out onto the desktop.
‘So, what are your Orders Ma’am?’
‘Let’s get some surveillance on her right away, find out where she is if we can, and who’s with her. Then we can start to plan our next move,’ she said conspiratorially.
‘Very good Ma’am, I’ll get right on it.’
Mary watched Augusto walked out having left the folder on her desk for her to look through. She opened it up and looked at the photo of Amanda clipped to the front page. She pulled it off and held it up, recognising the scarlet haired girl in the image from the past two years of hunting for her. Every time they thought they got close, she disappeared again.
She thought back to the investigation she had sent Vito on over two years ago that had him jet setting to America, Egypt and Europe after a tip off from someone who saw a demon in a New York Alleyway with a certain red head. That led to the discovery of a powerful Magical Artefact that Mary wanted to get her hands on, but which slipped through her fingers at the last moment because of Amanda and her friends. She’d lost a loyal and devout Inquisitor that day, and Vito had been tough to replace. She had a couple of capable and trusted Inquisitors now in Augusto and Assunta, but she still missed Vito.
She had no idea who killed him, but whoever it was, and she had to suspect Amanda as a possibility, had really made a mess of him. There wasn’t really a body to recover.
It had served as a timely reminder of just how dangerous these so called Magi were. They could call themselves whatever they liked, Magi, Arcadian, Nomad, it didn’t matter. As far as she was concerned, they were Witches and Warlocks, in league with Satan and a very real and very big danger to mankind.
She had pledged to hunt them down and purge the earth of their kind, and Amanda was next on that list, because she had made this personal.
Mary placed the photo on the desk, whipped out her knife in a blur of movement and stabbed the picture, burying the point of the dagger into the oak desk top, right through Amanda’s head.
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Book 1 – Epic Calling
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Andrew Dobell is a Photographer, Illustrator and Author who lives in Surrey with his wife Louise and 3 children. Shadows of Darkness is the second book in his series, The Magi Saga, and follows on from book 1, Epic Calling.
There are already 2 short stories written within the Magi Saga world as well, with more to follow.
Andrew has started work on book 3, Black Dawn.
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