It’s harder to see magic in winter, Skroder knows, when space heaters and furnace-vents have their own floating hazes to compete with the ripples in the air of sorcery at work. Neither the wine nor the candle-dim helps.<\/p>\n
“Look, Harkins has seen Saigon. We haven’t,” says Albion, earnestly turtlenecked. “If we don’t intervene–”<\/p>\n
“Which ‘we’ is that?” murmurs Erske.<\/p>\n
Albion flushes, but Skroder steps in. “Well, that’s a good point. ‘We’ Americans or ‘we’ Adepts? Imagine bringing a mass invocation to bear on the insurgency.”<\/p>\n
“Are you sure,” says Erske, “nobody has already?” Her tongue shimmers like a summertime road.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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