I already knew Byron was a good distance runner, but I had no idea how fast he was. I've never really been much of a sprinter myself; given a mile I'm... sure I would have caught the fleeing pair. Byron was on them by the time they reached the far side of the first field. They never even knew he was there until he tackled the one carrying the purse, and let me tell you, Ray Parry would have been proud of that tackle.Now the real trouble started and I was suddenly very glad I had gone after them.. ‘How have you been, Sandy?’ ‘Fantastic. I have Sam and Harri here, Jeff is home for the weekend and I met you. It’s like a big, long birthday.’ She simply bubbled. I couldn’t recognize the aroma, but I was sure Sam was in the kitchen whipping up some unknown delight. Sunny came down the stairs with a man who had to be Jeff’s dad. He reminded me of Louis Skolnick from Revenge of The Nerds: white shirt, black-rimmed glasses, thin, dark polyester pants, everything but the pocket protector. His. Though common magic was free to be practised by all, dark magic was considered dangerous. Though powerful, many bodies could not handle the flow of mana, often resulting in spontaneous combustion. The ability to control dark magic is simply innate, yet is still rare within the world. It seems to be cloaked in mystery.After this event, Jax's father spiralled into a depression. Drinking, gambling, drugs, all the usual life ruining things. Obviously he racked up a debt, and by the time Jax was 7,. He looked back into the room and then back at Darcy, “So is that what your good at?” At Darcy’s raised eyebrow, Reek qualified, “Tossing in the bees nest and seeing how they react.”Darcy chuckled, “I like that. No, normally I do what you do. Back on my world, I was taught to be a spy. To watch, to learn how people worked, why they did what they did and then tell other people so they could make the decisions on how to deal with the bad people I normally watched.”“Sometimes, I had to deal with.