In which there are assassins, and things go from bad to worse.
Takes place quite some time after excerpt one.
Necromancy is Not The Answer, Excerpt two
The next morning Kelly emerged from lessons to find that most of the Elemental Squad was absent. Together with Katie and Basil, who also lived at headquarters, Kelly began searching for its members.
She found Alice, Jay, Dimitri, Jasmine and Elisabeth in the ‘War Room,’ Jasmine and Elisabeth monitoring the wards, the others wearing telephonic headsets.
“What’s going on?” Kelly asked, while the two younger children trailed in behind her apprehensively.
Alice switched her headset off for a moment.
“There was an attack at the markets,” she said grimly. “Terror tactics. Basically appearing out of nowhere, attacking everyone in sight, then translocating out again, only we interrupted. It turned into a pitched battle when we showed up. There’s at least a hundred of the Dark Lord’s people there, and approximately five hundred civilians trapped at the scene. Total FUBAR. Us lot are the only ones who weren’t called in, coz someone’s gotta hold everything down here.”
“Uh, Alice?” Jasmine interrupted. Her tone of voice was filled with foreboding. “The wards have been breached.”
“What?” Alice asked sharply. “Show me.”
Elisabeth let Jasmine point out the changes in the wards while she used the laptop computer to bring up CCTV footage.
Standing in reception were six men and one woman, all dressed from head-to-toe in black and wearing sunglasses. Kelly could just make out some kind of design embroidered in red on the breast of their jackets, but the image quality for the camera was too small for her to make out what it was.
“Oh, bleedin’ hell. Assassins,” Alice said into the sudden still silence. “Just what we need.”
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