Chapter 3
Henning watched Edinger pull his car out of the driveway. He was alone in the car and Henning made the careful presumption that the djinn was still in the house. Breaking in shouldn’t be too difficult. Archimedes had provided Henning with several magical charms for neutralizing booby traps. A midnight scout of the house a few nights ago hadn’t revealed any wiring that appeared to be an alarm system.
The locks to the back door took less than five minutes to pick. No alarm sounded but Henning felt a distinct resistance to being able to step through the now open door. Ah, that implied magical warding. He took a walnut from his pocket. Why the hell Archimedes used a walnut for the charm baffled Henning but whatever suited that crazy dude’s purposes. Henning cupped the nut in his ha
