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the
officer questioned why the pen had been on his person, Benny could
clearly hear him say that he wasn’t going to take orders from an
XIA agent.
    Benny raised
her eyebrows at the officer on this side of the call. Colour crept
into his face.
    Benny used a
small charm to stick the pen to the wall next to the cell.
    “I will be
checking in with her later, and I will file paperwork to get her
transferred to the XIA. We actually do know how to handle our own,
and we have compassion for those who end up in a place that their
genetic inheritance put them in.”
    She checked on
Miaka again, and the woman was eagerly speaking to her brother.
    Michael glanced
at Benny and inclined his head. She nodded back and left them to
their reunion.
    A small
enchantment to tie Miaka to the pen was the same one that Lenora
used to use so that Benny didn’t lose her homework.
    Benny inclined
her head to the officer walking her around, and she left the
building. One more batch of paperwork was in her future, and the
sooner she got to the SUV, the better.

Chapter
Seven
     
     
    The guys saw her coming
and straightened from their positions loitering on the SUV. Tremble
summed it up. “Uh, oh.”
    Benny got into
the seat and fired up the computer, writing a scathing report and
request for prisoner transfer. When it came to the reasoning, she
smirked and wrote that as the XIA agents had had to fend off the
ghouls, it was their jurisdiction that had been impinged.
    The rest of the
prisoner torture was recorded, including the name of Mage Guild
Officer Ambrican, who had removed the pen and kept it for his own
purposes.
    She outlined
her summoning of the pen and the uniform that came with it,
culminating with her attaching the pen to the prisoner via spell
work, while the others climbed into the vehicle.
    “What happened
in there?” Argyle asked cautiously.
    Smith pulled
away from the parking spot and headed around the block to the
XIA.
    “They had her
in an isolated cell and didn’t put the pen close enough for
activation. She was going insane at an accelerated rate, and the
break in her spell only made it worse.”
    Tremble’s voice
was soft. “So, you are angry.”
    “Furious. I
would have taken her out of there if she hadn’t been on record with
all agencies.” Benny kept typing until she had assembled a complete
assessment of the situation and her actions. When she sent the
file, she closed the computer and her hands formed fists in her
lap.
    Cautiously,
Argyle asked, “Why are you so angered by this?”
    Benny worked at
calming herself. Her eyes were flicking between glowing demon green
and rainbow fey with rapid cycling. She could feel it.
    The new change
to her social structure was a source of stress. She hadn’t found a
normal balance and now something was hitting one of her hot
buttons. Too much too soon.
    Tremble put his
hand on her shoulder again, and she breathed slowly, using his aura
to calm herself. Between him and Argyle, she could probably anchor
her mood to theirs and keep herself stable, but if either of them
pitched a mood, she would go along for the ride. It was better to
figure out a way to calm herself.
    When they
returned to the agency, she headed inside with her team and changed
back into her normal clothing. Her locker hadn’t been tampered with
while she was gone, and it was one relief in a messed-up
evening.
    “Ganger. In my
office.”
    The captain’s
voice rapped out. She turned and headed to the sound of the
irritated commanding officer.
    “Close the
door.”
    She stood in
front of the captain’s desk. “Yes, Captain.”
    He looked at
her and cocked his head. “Why did you do that? The Horrocks woman
was off our books.”
    “She was going
insane. In a matter of hours, she would have been catatonic, and
from there, she would have been prime psychic fodder for the demon
who was sponsoring her.”
    Matheson leaned
back in his chair. “How do you know that?”
    “I was once the
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