'Take a look at this.' Hughes called over. 'I think we have an... unregistrated... magician.'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF2cROQOLAT
The members of Floor Twelve Minus looked over at the computer screen.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd9nIIYBIGl
...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...692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEnHsCE8sUM
'I don't know how I survived. It must have been a miracle.'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrIjazDpxIA
'You don't think that - '692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡugo3pD5iZa
'I do think.' Hughes rested his chin on a curled hand.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJSdSQzu4dy
'But telekinesis on a human? At that height? Magic is hardly possible just three floors up, and this must have happened higher than that.'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW3wgCSECXA
'You're right. It's quite an amazing feat. For a normal magician, that is.'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNeyF3BIv22
'You mean...?'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQoU7Uc3tto
'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?692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7xxS7M6INA
She could do magic, that much was certain. She could make fire, she could move things without touching them.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHEHKSnGQ2z
But how? Why her?692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcUHZcwJN3Q
rrring, rrring, rrring... She picked up the phone. 'Hello?'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvHWuKN2lgQ
'We'd like to speak to you.'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwZmxi7sLrp
'I'm sorry, who is this?'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNAXOXna6AH
'Floor Twelve Minus. We want to ask you about what happened yesterday.' Was this some kind of joke?692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDawk2KictB
'Look, I don't really have the time right now...' She hung up.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9DSleqNG9k
'We said, we wanted to talk to you.'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAvgLMXnFzo
Christine shrieked and turned around. A middle-aged, roughly shaven man was standing in her living room. He held out his hand.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4AMoqrnqYd
'My name is Hughes.'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF2wWfjv77N
'How did you get in here?' Christine thought through the possibilities. She didn't have anything to arm herself with, apart from...692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcv89DeawHg
'I unlocked the front door.' He smiled.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOYAHL2Itz2
'...How did you get my house keys?'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeiBHLjgWwc
Hughes laughed, a barking roar. 'Who said anything about needing keys?'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKPoOg5kJnT
'HOW DID YOU GET IN HERE?' Christine yelled, backing into the kitchen.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4mzlWz7Uqp
'I don't know, Christine. Magic?'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMqaU5D3ubN
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.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGddBTtqk6m
'So you know about your abilities, then?' He asked, mildly surprised.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcMuec6NARo
'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.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPDLhee5NxH
He deflected it easily. 'You obviously do.'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhAO8QWiOAl
The steel pan came flinging back at Christine, and, unprepared, she was knocked unconscious.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKNilzNFZiJ
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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.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡduWBe5wNKT
'The pressing question is, of course, who her parents are. If there's another family of magicians out there...'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpFGSwgeYaj
Hughes turned on the intercom, and watched Christine through the camera in the antechamber. 'I see you're awake now.'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZOv61deq9x
'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.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzFyAuTqSz5
'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.'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPluJBueeXm
'Who are you?'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2vWBMP1kLx
'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.'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoGF7wNgsW5
'Yeah? Is this what you do? Kidnap people and tie them up in metal cables?'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡck0zGiqn3H
'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.'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbN6Ml8j2rp
'...So what. You guys are the magic experts or something?'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtdMCXxPG1V
'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?'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ3HoV38Gq1
'Why do you want to know?'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ6nRXMhMNj
'Just cooperate, please. We don't want to make you any more uncomfortable than you are now. Who are they?'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGzi4UQSxrA
'They died in a fire when I was young.'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjBgd9sntmE
'By your hands? Interesting. But that doesn't answer my question.'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI3ffvQp5aF
'Brian. Brian and Rebecca.'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN1lDw2pCIl
'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...692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwf2HSVjzUx
He turned the intercom back on. 'How old are you, Christine?'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCfpiQjP6YG
'I turned 27 yesterday. Or the day before, I don't know how long you've kept me down here.'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2vVDwc4153
Shit, Hughes thinks. She really is Xavier's twin... how does that even work?692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJoDb1bnwLt
'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.'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjBoDTqWxs2
'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.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEL1zxRbB73
'Mostly corporate things. Helping out businesses, taking down others. That's where the market is.'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn8BG0cuK0m
Come on... The fiber system in the cables was far too complex. She couldn't unravel it. 'Espionage?'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVWwJYXBhie
'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.'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZcMuewzoff
'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.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI4aItJ1AVm
'Nothing. They're a fabulous company. Which is why they need to go, for Knight Finances to be successful.'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ62Fx10aZ7n
'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.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpf8pvaRiTu
'A hundredfold of your job at WestGo.' Hughes paused for the effect. 'Are you in?'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBu3WjoGDl0
'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.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxk2U02svyW
'Shit, shit, SHIT!' Hughes yelled, as the rest of Floor Twelve Minus sprung into action. 'Don't let her escape!'692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSpdBRnjE0U
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.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQwHJcRfxZG
Despite it all, she smiled. I'm powerful. They're scared.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjiDxPFX4au
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.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ727hxo13Hs
There's the elevator. My way out.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsUFr7yrGaP
Christine ran across the room, deflecting any flames, chairs, or tables thrown her way.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH96UBcYTpy
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.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLgtP9dMaiT
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.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbUY71cxL3v
Christine sent the disguised magician flying to the back of the store, and shattered the panes of glass to run out onto the street.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Guj7YSK2k
I've got to alert people to these madmen.692Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfg5OgiCAbv
The nearest police station was only a few streets away.
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