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  He realized Karen had been watching him for several minutes without speaking, so he glanced up at her. “Helo.” As his eyes took her

  appearance in, he noticed she wasn’t wearing her usual clothes. She had been wearing the dresses that were favored by the young noblewomen of Lothion, but today she was clad in the enchanted leathers he had given her before her last trip to his world, tough trousers and a tailored leather jerkin that managed to display her feminine frame despite its masculine connotations.

  He thought she looked good, and he had never been overly concerned with what others had considered ‘proper.’ The look on her face told

  him that there was more to it than that, though.

  She met his eyes with her own for a moment, then looked down at his project. “I came to say goodbye.”

  His mind went blank. Not a single word suggested itself to him.

  After waiting a while, she leaned in and gave him a light kiss. She looked at him again, watching his reaction, but when he didn’t reply, she started to turn away, “Wel, thanks for everything. I mean that.”

  “Huh?” His first word was anything but articulate.

  She stopped. “I said I was leaving. Is ‘huh’ al you can think of?”

  “What?” He was improving; he had managed a real word, and one that might even be considered a proper question.

  Her expression was suspicious. “Were you even listening to what I said?”

  He knew the answer to that one. “You said goodbye.” After a moment, he even came up with his own question: “ Why?”

  Exasperated she responded, “Because I’m leaving.”

  “I got that,” he told her. “What I mean is, why are you leaving?”

  Karen smiled; she had his ful attention at last. “Because I need to. Since coming here, I’ve been completely dependent. That’s not who I am.”

  “I don’t think anyone thinks that about you,” countered Matt. “I don’t.”

  “I know you don’t,” she reassured him, “but it’s how I feel. Your world is completely new to me. It’s an opportunity to rewrite my life, to be someone new, but I can’t do that by just accepting your family’s generosity. I need to go out and make my own way.”

  “Couldn’t you make your own way—here?”

  She shook her head. “You’re sweet, but no. I need to do this on my own. Besides, I won’t be so far away. This talent I’ve inherited means I can be anywhere I want to be, provided I’ve been there before. I’l come back to visit regularly, or for baths if nothing else.” The twinkle in her eye told him the last part was only a joke.

  “My gift could be incredibly useful,” she added. “But I need to travel, to develop it. The more places I go, the better it becomes. Think about it

  —I could wake up, have breakfast in one place, and then later have dinner on the other side of the world. My life here could be extraordinary, but only if I travel to make it a reality. I need to discover what’s out there.”

  “Alone? The road can be a dangerous place, especialy for a woman,” he cautioned.

  Karen laughed. “I may not be the most powerful wizard, but I’m one of only a handful, or so you told me. Who could threaten me? And if I did meet someone or something too dangerous to face, how could they keep me from escaping? With just a thought I can be back here, where most of the world’s most dangerous mages are gathered.”

  “Won’t you be lonely?” He surprised himself with that question. He had never felt a particular need for company, yet now he was suggesting it to her.

  “At first,” she admitted. “But that’s also partly what this is about. I need to make my own friends. I want to meet people. Being able to traverse the world in a blink of an eye means I can always visit any new friends or acquaintances whenever I want, but I have to make them first.”

  “What about Gary?”

  “He can stay here,” she told him. “I think he’s happiest here, helping you. It gives him a sense of purpose. Besides, who wants a parent along on their first road trip?”

  “It sounds like you’ve done a lot of thinking about this,” he observed.

  She nodded.

  “Just be careful. Remember, even a nutjob isn’t invincible. If you trust the wrong people, you could be hurt. Poison affects us just like everyone else.”

  Karen began to laugh, long and hard.

  “What?” he asked, somewhat nonplussed.

  When she finaly stopped, she answered, gasping for air, “I’ve been meaning to talk to you about that. That word doesn’t mean what you think it does.”

  He was rather annoyed when he discovered what it actualy meant , and slightly embarrassed when he recaled the various times he had used it without knowing, back in her world. It cast his final monologue with his adversary in an entirely different light.

  She left after that, and he stared at the spot where she had stood for several minutes before returning to his work. Or at least he tried to. He found himself unable to concentrate properly for the rest of the day. It wasn’t until the folowing afternoon that he was able to focus on what he was doing.

  But he did. His work was enthraling, and nothing held his attention the way a complex problem could. In his mind, he was already moving

  ahead to the one after it. He had no lack of ideas.

  As the days went on, he perfected his hand design and then he began constructing a replacement for the Fool’s Tesseract, though this would be an improved version. Now and then he stopped, and found himself wondering what Karen was doing or what she was seeing, but after

  daydreaming a while, he always returned to the project at hand.

  Somehow, he knew he would see her again.

  Coming Late in 2017:

  Mordecai

  The world that began in the popular Mageborn series continues with a new series focused once again on Mordecai; the son of a blacksmith, a nobleman by birth, and heir to a magical legacy; in a story that will unite characters from all three series, Mageborn , Embers of Illeniel, and Champions of the Dawning Dragons. Mordecai, his children, and even his distant ancestor, Tyrion, will come together to face the ancient enemy that once drove even the She’Har from their homeworld .

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  Table of Contents

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Chapter 31

  Chapter 32

  Chapter 33

  Chapter 34

  Chapter 35

  Chapter 36

  Chapter 37

  Chapter 38

  Chapter 40

  Chapter 43

  Chapter 44

  Chapter 45

  Chapter 46

  Chapter 47

  Chapter 48

  Chapter 49

  Chapter 50

  Chapter 51

  Chapter 52

  Chapter 53

  Epilogue

  Document Outline

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7


  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Chapter 31

  Chapter 32

  Chapter 33

  Chapter 34

  Chapter 35

  Chapter 36

  Chapter 37

  Chapter 38

  Chapter 40

  Chapter 43

  Chapter 44

  Chapter 45

  Chapter 46

  Chapter 47

  Chapter 48

  Chapter 49

  Chapter 50

  Chapter 51

  Chapter 52

  Chapter 53

  Epilogue

  Table of Contents

 

 

 


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