Three Parts Fey by Viola Grace Read Free Book Online

you make it worth my while?”
    Benny chuckled.
“We will discuss it at home.”
    He shrugged.
“Fair enough.”
    Argyle
chortled. “That is one way to get him interested in higher
education.”
    “It is that or
hand him over to my father. Either way, he is going to learn. We
have a paranormal census back home, so it will be easy to focus on
species he may actually interact with.”
    Smith sighed.
“I am not an idiot. I am just more interested in the physical
effects of transformation.”
    She sighed. “I
don’t want to nag you, but we really do have an excellent library
if you are interested.”
    “I will think
about it.”
    It was fair
enough. “Well, if everyone is ready, I will finish the reports and
we can be on our way to the Mage Guild holding centre.”
    The SUV was
loaded up, and they were on their way.
    Smith grinned.
“You type faster than Argyle does.”
    Benny nodded
and kept her focus on the screen. “I used to write for a living. It
rubs off after a while.”
    Each time they
completed an incident, a blank report was generated with the time
the encounter was started and ended. She had to recap all of the
events including the agents who enacted the control action. Benny
then had to sign each report, and it was time stamped with the
filing time.
    She nodded at
the amount of reports she had filed. “Busy night.”
    Tremble patted
her on the shoulder. “You did well for your first night out
participating as an agent.”
    She smiled and
kept typing up the mermaid report. “Thanks. I did try. There is
just something about that poor girl being influenced by a demon
that bothers me.”
    Argyle nodded.
“Like Jennifer Langstrom.”
    “Yes and no.
But that is what has me worried. Demon influence is insidious. It
won’t end just because she didn’t manage the raising. He will come
after her again.”
    Tremble asked,
“How do you know that?”
    “Because demons
seek out the weak-willed and vulnerable who contain power that they
haven’t realised. Just because she is in custody doesn’t mean that
she will be safe from him. Her existence tempts him, and as we
know, demons don’t believe in self-discipline unless there is sex
involved. Even then, it is easier with a partner to do the
disciplining.”
    Smith scowled.
“You think she has been sexually interfered with?”
    Benny shook her
head. “Nothing like that. She was given hope, and now that it has
been removed, she will be looking to replace that vacancy of need
and want that drove her forward. She will be more vulnerable than
before.”
    Smith asked,
“Can her brother’s ghost be turned?”
    She sighed.
“No. That I can be confident of. Demon magic repels demon magic. If
anyone tries to hack through that spell, I will feel it.”
    “Can they trace
it back to you?”
    She snorted and
completed the arrest report on the mermaid.
    “Yes. He can
definitely trace the spell back to me, but he won’t. As strong as
his spells were, I could pass through them without trouble. He is a
manipulator and I am way past being susceptible to that kind of
bullshit.” She watched the streets flow past.
    Argyle broke
the silence. “Were you susceptible once?”
    She nodded. “I
kept the silence for a while, but eventually, I told my parents. It
was the last demon incident recorded in Redbird City before my
parents’ abduction.”
    “What did he
offer you?”
    “Normality. He
said he could take my power and leave me a nice, normal, teenage
girl. My father had changed, and my mother...well, she was still my
mother, but it was different. Her illness had changed us all. Since
they were sharing a soul, I felt lost, out of the loop. He said he
could change it, make it like it was before. It was my lowest
moment and I agreed, but not before I told my dad.”
    Tremble reached
forward again and squeezed her shoulder.
    “Harcourt
intervened, and I found the motives of Jimhal the demon as they
were brought into the open.”
    Smith asked,
“Could this be