He smelled burned flesh and hair.Aric opened his eyes.There was a flame wall about ten feet in front of him.It was about eight feet high, ten feet wid... and three feet thick. When he looked he saw that some of the enemy re-enforcements that were right in front of him were now partial burned skeletons of charred bones. That included their horses as well.He looked down at Daven, and Daven was staring up at him with wide eyes.Daven was stunned to see that Aric's eyes were now glowing an impossibly. ”I headed toward the bedroom, “after you.”Everyone had the same books or texts or scrolls. They were all speculation or hints at the few tombs or burial chambers. For two years I had been studying everything about the mage priests that had built the tombs or chambers. The order was still around but much reduced with less power. I had copies of two dozen grand master texts from them.I also had a half dozen from the last burial master from the time when they were still putting kings in the. Someone had not fully embraced the digital revolution. Which was fine with me; I liked ink-on-paper myself.I started with Arlington’s personal stuff. Louis L’Amour paperbacks — Westerns. Un-filed expense reports, which I guess were both personal and business. A baseball autographed by Fernando Valenzuela. An old iPod.No clues, no hints, no knives.Chip winked at Walker, “Want to go out on the field?”“Yes!”Chip led us to an unmarked elevator, through a maze of corridors, through the Royals locker. She threw her coat on the floor, and looked at me expectantly, she didn’t have to speak, as our ability to communicate had gone beyond mere speech many years before. Her breathing had started to get heavier, her gorgeous red and recently glossed lips had started to engorge with blood and her eyes had slightly narrowed, I knew exactly what she wanted, she didn’t have to say a word. Her whole visage was impatient and demanding, but she would never forgive me if I gave in too easily. I turned to.