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me a fountain pen when I entered college. I just wanted a
business degree.”
    Benny looked at
the objects on the ground. “Is this it?”
    “That is the
one. She can keep me with her always.”
    Benny picked it
up and used the summoning magic to bind his soul to the object.
    “I thought it
was more complicated than that.” He smiled.
    “It is for most
mages. I am not most mages.”
    She reinforced
his connection and kept an anchoring and protective spell on it. No
one would dislodge him from the pen until Miaka wanted him to
go.
    “She might
cling to you for the rest of her life, Michael.”
    He leaned down
and brushed a phantom hand over his sister’s brow. “I know. I am
still willing to do it. I never could be the family zombie. I had a
heart transplant when I was nine. My organs were shot from the
anti-rejection drugs.”
    Benny sighed
and looked at Miaka. She glanced back, and Tremble was pounding his
fists against the barrier.
    Michael cocked
his head. “How did you get through?”
    “Oh, family
secret.”
    She took her
knife and sliced through the barrier. Tremble stumbled forward.
    “The Mage Guild
operatives have arrived.”
    She sat with
Miaka as the operatives came to her and stumbled to a halt.
    “This is Miaka
Horrocks. She tried to raise her brother Michael. I managed to stop
her, but his soul was already loosened and with us. I have anchored
it to this pen. Please, please, keep the pen within twenty feet of
her at all times. She is in an extremely vulnerable mental
state.”
    The male mage
looking at her nodded with a kind expression. “We will take care of
her.”
    “Good, because
I am going to check in on her. She has suffered a loss that was
unexpected. She has wounds that will never heal.” As an aside,
Benny added, “She has also been influenced by a demon, so keep an
eye out for that.”
    The mage
carried her off with his partner. Benny waited for the next team to
come in. She explained all the components and left them to take the
bits apart.
    Argyle was
working with the team putting down the ghouls that had risen
without souls.
    Smith stayed
near her, and he asked slowly, “Is she out of danger?”
    Benny nodded.
“I used her own magic to anchor her brother’s ghost, so it should
be fine. There was also the touch of a demon in the area, and my
magic pushed his out of the way. He won’t come sniffing around her
again. The Mage Guild will be watching her constantly.”
    Smith nodded.
“So, after this...dinner?”
    She laughed.
“Excellent idea, love.”
    Tremble came up
on them, and he cupped her elbow. “You did very well.”
    “I am glad you
think so. I want to check on Miaka at the Guild holding facility
before we go home.”
    “Of course,
darling.”
    She grinned at
him. “That is Agent Darling to you.”
    The undead XIA
officers had finished with the ghouls, and there was a Mage Guild
necromancer standing by to anchor those who had been disturbed.
    It was
definitely time for dinner.

Chapter Six
     
     
    It wasn’t a night for
tacos. They pulled into a small diner parking lot and filed in to
scrub their hands before settling into a booth and thumbing through
the menu.
    Benny was in
the mood for soup and a BLT. The coffee she ordered with it was
habit more than anything.
    The guys
ordered a wide variety of foods, and they even had a crimson
smoothie for Argyle.
    Tremble had to
ask, “How do you know to do all that?”
    Benny grinned.
“You have met my parents. Do you think I didn’t want to learn all
they had to offer me? I had tutors from every species, was enrolled
in every basic instruction that they could manage, taught by the
best in their fields. I am not a true necromancer, but I am better
than many trained necromancers. There are so many butterflies
around our property in winter it isn’t even funny.”
    Smith
snorted.
    The food was
hot and filled the hole that hanging around the cemetery had
generated.
    The bacon on
her sandwich was pleasantly crispy, and it