#22: Shelby: A Disturbance in the Force

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Shelby, the ArchMage, awoke to the sound of a baby crying. Except there WERE no babies in the Wizard Tower.

“What the hell is going on?” Shelby asked himself, that is he asked Elvira, his Daemon, his alter ego, his other self.

Shelby WAS the ArchMage. He had powers that even he did not realize that he had. He’d just discovered a new one.

“I was about to wake you up.” Elvira told him “There’s an emergency at the HelpDesk. Yvette is covering it but she could probably use some help. Moral support if nothing else.”

“I’m on my way.” Shelby literally flew out of the tower. SSmoke allowed that.

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SSmoke is marvelous stuff. In the aggregate it can do almost anything imaginable and some things not likely to BE imagined. Each individual mote was small....smaller than the particles that cigarette smoke was made of. Much smaller than that actually. At the very center of each tiny, tiny little mote... much, much, MUCH smaller.... were nanomachines, barely a billionth of an inch across.

Yvette hadn’t been kidding when she told Julie and Naomi that she had experience raising young boys from the dead. Yvette was a Daemon, born at the death of Joshua and responsible for his rebirth as a Maggi. She knew ALL about SSmoke, drones...and the secret surprise in the middle.

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“If you can spare a minute I could use some help here” Yvette said to Elvira. She knew that the Wiz was asleep but his Daemon wasn’t.

“Whatcha got?” Elvira asked. She knew there was a problem but not exactly what it was. Shelby had already left, he’d be at the ‘help desk’ in seconds.

“A dying baby mage”. Yvette told her.

“YOU HAVE A WHAT?” Elvira responded.

“yup...and it’s gonna be dead real soon now.” Yvette responded. “I’m gonna do the resurrection thing with nano-machines from an SSmoke drone but that’s going to leave me short on resources. I could use some help.”

“Certainly” Elvira said. “ Shelby will be there any second. I suspected that all that SSmoke we’ve been stockpiling would come in handy soon.”

“Can’t never have too much SSmoke” Yvette and Elvira repeated in unison. It was a mantra.

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“I’m going to have to commander your other drone too” Yvette told Naomi and Julie. “Reinforcements are on the way but they’ll be a while getting here. “

“What’s happening?” the two women asked, talking over each other.

“Oh...just your run of the mill resurrection” Yvette told them. “The babies dead and I’m bringing it back to life.”

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The Next Episode will be
#23: Shelby: This Is New…
The Previous Episode was
#21: Naomi - Call 911…
The First Episode was
# 1 : Prologue…
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Book One: SoulStone
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