G.H.O.S.T. Teams: Book 1 - Magic by Bobby Brimmer Read Free Book Online Page A

several possibilities, but if you wanted a guess, the two most likely scenarios are that they collected his energy for another purpose or perhaps they just needed to drain him completely in order to take his life,” she said.
    “Great work, Kara. Timothy will check on similar occurrences now,” Freddy said.
    “I’m on it,” Timothy replied before turning off the communicator.
    I could see that she was a little troubled. If you understand what a person fears then you often have a better understanding of what drives them. I was hoping to learn more about her mental state and this seemed a perfect opening. Plus it couldn’t hurt to have her perspective on the villains that I was inevitably going to have to battle.
    “You wanna tell me why you looked worried?” I asked.
    She gave me a warm smile, a gracious smile.
    “How much do you remember from your magic classes?” she asked.
    “I took magic classes?” I smiled.
    “Bruce, those classes were important,” she replied.
    “Old professors droning on and on all day. Who can remember any of that?”
    Yes I was hamming it up, but some of those professors might have been two hundred years old. They really looked ancient. And I don’t mean ancient as in the cool, immortal, live forever way. I mean they looked like people who had lived for over two hundred years. Not a pretty picture.
    “So we’ll assume you learned nothing,” she stated.
    “A fair assumption,” I smiled.
    “I guess I’ll start at the beginning then,” she frowned.
    “Don’t be like that. I bet you explain it way better than those old fuddy duddies anyway.”
    “Did you really just say fuddy duddy?” she laughed.
    “I did and it totally worked. So, magic?”
    “And you’re going to pay attention?” she questioned.
    I watched her soft lips move as her silky voice danced over my ears. In the spirit of teamwork I told her exactly why I would listen. I leaned forward, a lovesick puppy dog expression on my face.
    “With your beauty, I would pay attention if you read the phone book,” I stated.
    She smacked me across the forehead and I didn’t move. I batted my eyelashes at her a few times, and she shook her head and sighed.
    “Are you always like this?” she asked.
    “Of course not, I get much worse,” I smiled.
    Kara let the smallest of smiles play at the corner of her lips. I stopped making the silly face and sat upright, trying to sit at attention. I crossed my arms and gave her my best studious pose. She sighed and rolled her eyes before her body language made it clear that she would play along.
    “Fine, let’s talk about magic,” she said.
     

Chapter 4
     
    This was exactly what I wanted, Kara giving me a detailed explanation about the very thing that could destroy her life. I would just continue to pay attention and plead ignorance.   She started small.
    “Let’s make this as simple as possible, magic is magic is magic. While there are several different types of practitioners and many distinctive methods to employ its use, for all intents and purposes, there is only one kind of magical energy. So when we say magic, or the casting of a spell, we are simply discussing the shaping of manna in order to achieve a desired effect,” she started.
    “Holy text book definition batman,” I laughed.
    “It was a very accurate definition thank you,” she stated.
    “It was great and I think I understand everything now,” I smiled, “Just one question, what’s magic?”
    “Shut up,” she smiled.
    Don’t look at me like that. If you were riding in the back of a van with a beautiful woman, you would be trying to make her laugh too. In the interest of keeping things moving forward I figured I should ask a serious question.
    “So, magic is just the manipulation of manna. Now what is manna?” I asked.
    “Manna is the living energy of the universe. The power, or spirit, or essence given off by all living things,” she said.
    “Wow Yoda. Do we have to hug a tree and eat some