- Morgan and Ancient Mai reluctantly take refuge at Harry's.
- Murphy interrupted my yoga session, asking about an explosion of green fire. Then Morgan burst in, asking if my protections were up. Before I could even say yes, three more Wardens Soto, Amber and Wallace came in holding a badly injured Ancient Mai.
Right after that, darkness surrounded my office. Soto died instantly when he touched the darkness.
Mai the head of the High Council and a powerful, powerful wizard was hurt, and we were trapped. All the while, she was yelling at Morgan and me not to tell Murphy anything, but that ship pretty much sailed. I'd been keeping Murphy in the dark about magic, but now I had to come clean. She even met Bob.
At first, we thought the darkness surrounding the building was a magical net. Bob who as a ghost, can't be killed again was volunteered for some recon. He explained that this wasn't just a gateway to the afterlife. Somehow, we'd been sent to the realm of death itself.
This was very bad. Worse, after we moved Mai up to my bedroom, the darkness took over the office, leaving only the living area in the back safe. Worse still, Bob was sure that whoever was responsible for this was trapped with us. Which meant that, in all likelihood, one of the surviving Wardens was responsible.
Unfortunately, Wallace got the same idea, and he started attacking. Murphy had to shoot him to keep him from killing us all.
Mai was trying to heal herself, but wasn't getting any better. After we moved her downstairs to the couch, the darkness took over the upstairs and that was when it hit me.
Being trapped here wasn't an attack, it was a defense. Mai brought us here to lick her wounds. But she wasn't healing, which brought us back to one of us being the bad guy. With my defenses, though, a threat couldn't have gotten in unless it was invited in the way that, for instance, Murphy was.
And that was when Murphy turned into a drake or, as regular people like to call it, a dragon.
Morgan was able to protect us from the drake's fire-breathing for a while, but he wouldn't last forever. Luckily he didn't need to. With Amber's help, I magically weakened Mai so that the darkness closed in on us and on the drake, which was destroyed the same way poor Soto was.
With the drake dead, all three of us restored Mai, and she brought us back to reality. Then Murphy the real one knocked on my door, signaling that everything really was back to normal.
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