'Take a look at this.' Hughes called over. 'I think we have an... unregistrated... magician.'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4FTxOHg5fK
The members of Floor Twelve Minus looked over at the computer screen.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiqAtttMwKj
...And on the eight o clock news, we have a shocking case involving Eclipse Equipment where a harness used for highrise cleaning broke. The man involved, Winston Jones, was not injured, but is filing a lawsuit against the company. Eyewitness accounts say he was extremely lucky to have landed in the crane, saying that it was as if he was launched upward to safety...732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgFHS8nOrSb
'I don't know how I survived. It must have been a miracle.'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAisuGejHTS
'You don't think that - '732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkWsRWG9Kur
'I do think.' Hughes rested his chin on a curled hand.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCK3AaJlDEB
'But telekinesis on a human? At that height? Magic is hardly possible just three floors up, and this must have happened higher than that.'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ44urjVsep4
'You're right. It's quite an amazing feat. For a normal magician, that is.'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz3gAxir7hX
'You mean...?'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2KzqYxIlll
'That's right.' Hughes rose from his chair and clapped his hands. 'I think we found our lost High Priestess.'
Christine sunk back into the sofa. What did this all mean?732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeCW5fbB0rp
She could do magic, that much was certain. She could make fire, she could move things without touching them.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlgaFfuf5mf
But how? Why her?732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡalzop4UT3V
rrring, rrring, rrring... She picked up the phone. 'Hello?'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJyYhONNufw
'We'd like to speak to you.'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2EDuyudRTs
'I'm sorry, who is this?'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJoqAC5ABtp
'Floor Twelve Minus. We want to ask you about what happened yesterday.' Was this some kind of joke?732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9omWo1WU9l
'Look, I don't really have the time right now...' She hung up.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM2XVePJJzF
'We said, we wanted to talk to you.'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkV6UJQ7kXU
Christine shrieked and turned around. A middle-aged, roughly shaven man was standing in her living room. He held out his hand.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtfVVnwGN6O
'My name is Hughes.'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj5Jk6xILYq
'How did you get in here?' Christine thought through the possibilities. She didn't have anything to arm herself with, apart from...732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡevBYwC0BM9
'I unlocked the front door.' He smiled.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDK78Zsq01G
'...How did you get my house keys?'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY96xkzWT8x
Hughes laughed, a barking roar. 'Who said anything about needing keys?'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZk4mrgNpe
'HOW DID YOU GET IN HERE?' Christine yelled, backing into the kitchen.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡirMgb9jWOm
'I don't know, Christine. Magic?'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLH7Cc7eVFo
Her face went white. She had lost the only advantage - no doubt this man was more skilled at her at - at whatever it was they could do.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvY51HI9qCi
'So you know about your abilities, then?' He asked, mildly surprised.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtnFUOLToCH
'I don't know what you're talking about.' She was trapped in the corner of the room by the sinks. Desperately, she opened the cupboard on the other side of the room with her telekinesis and flung a saucepan at the man.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9CAcN0aMOJ
He deflected it easily. 'You obviously do.'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq0GtDebpK7
The steel pan came flinging back at Christine, and, unprepared, she was knocked unconscious.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhGFnRUycsA
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'She doesn't understand the extent of her abilities.' Hughes knew that they couldn't keep Christine captive for long. Whether she knew it or not, she was more powerful than all of Floor Twelve Minus combined. And now that she was physically confined, she would be experimenting with her powers even more.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL5MoIT2H9a
'The pressing question is, of course, who her parents are. If there's another family of magicians out there...'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM9VfgFREUe
Hughes turned on the intercom, and watched Christine through the camera in the antechamber. 'I see you're awake now.'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFpumdlZzkb
'Where am I? Why are you doing this to me? Let me out! Let me out!' She screamed, but her voice cracked at Hughes' laughter.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDyE40vABfK
'Christine, we don't want to hurt you. We just need to keep you restrained until you calm down - because we don't want you to hurt us, either.'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu8xdVLGyfG
'Who are you?'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9aWaaFBws3
'I already told you. My name is Hughes. I work for an institution called Floor Twelve Minus. We'd like to recruit you. You'd be in a very respectable position.'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaDaqUr2C8f
'Yeah? Is this what you do? Kidnap people and tie them up in metal cables?'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGlkypLHDIG
'Please. We didn't want you burning your way out, and the fiber circuit is complex enough that you shouldn't be able to undo it. It's temporary, just to keep everyone safe while you consider our proposal.'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyVtBCTePmW
'...So what. You guys are the magic experts or something?'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPczzxLLwKq
'You could call us that, yes. In fact, we thought we were the only people gifted with such abilities until we found out about you. Which brings me to an important question: who are your parents?'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWm9ds2CT73
'Why do you want to know?'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoh2Q8ZuAlr
'Just cooperate, please. We don't want to make you any more uncomfortable than you are now. Who are they?'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlxgF1M8WfW
'They died in a fire when I was young.'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqSnEfJwGfW
'By your hands? Interesting. But that doesn't answer my question.'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY2Wjc4CknX
'Brian. Brian and Rebecca.'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW2W3vWiNgB
'Rebecca?' Hughes turned off the intercom for a moment. Rebecca? But he had taken their child. He had taken the child, the one he called Xavier. What was it that she said again? You have a child. He had a child. But what if she had more? Surely magic couldn't be passed down that way...732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB6k0bLOp5O
He turned the intercom back on. 'How old are you, Christine?'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCmU5gcr0Xq
'I turned 27 yesterday. Or the day before, I don't know how long you've kept me down here.'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk8O8OGfn2V
Shit, Hughes thinks. She really is Xavier's twin... how does that even work?732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡONU7h77A1X
'That's enough. Let's get down to business now. We, Floor Twelve Minus, are interested in people like you... that have abilities. And we perform jobs for people - highly paid jobs, I might add.'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVcxvcWSISD
'What kind of jobs?' Christine closed her eyes. She could feel herself getting smaller, fingers prying through the individual metal cables surrounding her body, twisting and untwisting, responding to the feedback in the tautness of her confinement. She just needed a few more minutes.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8yj0bhtdhB
'Mostly corporate things. Helping out businesses, taking down others. That's where the market is.'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp45ArLMb3o
Come on... The fiber system in the cables was far too complex. She couldn't unravel it. 'Espionage?'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfapnJ1o0Gy
'That's right. Our next target was actually going to be the very building you work in. Lucky that we found you before we burnt it down.'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr1I2tKcbgm
'WestGo? What's wrong with them?' She isolated a single metal fiber. A tiny, tiny flame, with highly concentrated heat, formed inside the cable, every ounce of energy focused on that fiber.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdWpY1td92u
'Nothing. They're a fabulous company. Which is why they need to go, for Knight Finances to be successful.'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGXZadzxViy
'Okay, I get it. How high is the pay?' A weak point in the fiber melted, breaking the circuit, and she smothered the fire with the rest of the cable. Now it was just a knot - she had made two loose ends. All she needed to do was tug and it would start to unravel.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSOum65aSLM
'A hundredfold of your job at WestGo.' Hughes paused for the effect. 'Are you in?'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPV0d3NkcSA
'No.' Christine said. 'I'm out of here.' At a shocking speed, she navigated the system in the fiber cables and unraveled the metal rope. Feeling it loosen upon her chest, she shook it off and rose from the chair.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNIExsAty9P
'Shit, shit, SHIT!' Hughes yelled, as the rest of Floor Twelve Minus sprung into action. 'Don't let her escape!'732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡICdJRizyNl
Christine blew the fuse in the camera with a quick flame, then focused on the lock on the steel door. She could sense the lock cylinders gyrating, trying to feel the position that would let the locking pin slide away - click.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhB2MeSdJxM
Despite it all, she smiled. I'm powerful. They're scared.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1zwNWtcure
The door flung open to the hall of Floor Twelve Minus, where the magicians scrambled around in a panic, setting things on fire and throwing burning objects around the room.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjEksON9PC1
There's the elevator. My way out.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIUS7mZgStc
Christine ran across the room, deflecting any flames, chairs, or tables thrown her way.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfTZfTjHQ4W
She felt her feet land on the metal floor of the lift, and she closed the doors with a swipe of her hands, before sending the elevation cables into a spinning frenzy. The sheer velocity of the elevator made her dizzy, but Christine didn't care - she just wanted to get out.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbd0akS1UvW
With a jolt, the elevator stopped at the ground floor of a small, unassuming arts and crafts store. The cashier, fully aware of what was going on, flung the glass doors of the shop shut with a glance.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr8pbYRqVLz
Christine sent the disguised magician flying to the back of the store, and shattered the panes of glass to run out onto the street.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2cLiU1RWmQ
I've got to alert people to these madmen.732Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCtFP01bFjZ
The nearest police station was only a few streets away.
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