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Chapter 14

    Walking into the dark room, Andy could barely see the outline of his boss who was sitting at the opposite end of the long table, eating at the banquet size meal laid before him, "So do you have any idea what became of my favorite 'employee'?"

    "I would assume that she either actually managed to catch Yuvraj and the suits, or was utterly defeated in the process like I tried saying would probably happen."

    "No on both accounts actually, all I know is that her squad was with her, as she tracked them over the last week, then went they found her missing, gone from view after they had been following a lead."

    "Did you try the tattoo tracing spell I gave you when I handed over control?"

    "Yes, but the scrying bowl was following the trail she had taken, it started going fuzzy, then vanished completely, and my scrying bowl never does that, so that means her connection was either handed over to someone else, or her connection was severed completely.  Care to explain?"

    "I have no clue, in all of my families ancient magic rituals and spells, there's no way possible we know of that could've happen with out the controller allowing it."

    "That's what I thought, and I realized something, your nephew, is powerful as you've said, no doubt about it, but then I realized something, he may be your blood line, but he wasn't raised as one, and he still has magic, which means he's not using ancient magics, or maybe he is, but more than that, he seems to be using magic unlike what you would expect, which made me realize, you family that lost your nephew, have been holed up in that family village of yours, walling in yourselves, not letting anything new in, which means you only use that old taboos to seem powerful."

    "Sir?  What are you getting at?"

    "Well, the taboos are called taboos because doing one causes a tabooed after effect, a curse for example, you should be cursed.  But with how much your family has done, even giving us the ritual for the girl to split her into the suits they are now, we never experienced any after effects.  So tell me, where are these curses and supposed evil spirits that are suppose to come after us for casting the taboo magic on the world."

   "Alright, if you want to know, you can go talk to head of the family, for he is the only one that can say."

    "Don't pull that on me."

    "No, seriously, we have a spell put on us when we start to learn magic when we're young, keeping us from saying certain things to outsiders, unless they've been told by the head of family, who is the only with the capacity to say the things we are not allowed to say."

    "I see, it's almost like the head of family can control this taboo like spell.  Well then, go to him, tell him I wish to arrange a meeting, just a small little friendly chat, I'll have a royal prepared banquet for him when he arrives."

    "Okay."

   "One last thing."

    "Yes sir?"

    "Is this spell of silence on my right hand man?"

    "No sir, she had the tattoo, so we just used that to keep her silent about anything she wasn't suppose to say."

    "I see, well then, on your way."

    "Yes sir."

    As he stepped out, he let out a heavy sigh, know that convincing the head would be a difficult task.  When he told him about his accidental loss that caused him five years of servitude, he was laughed at for it, but was then scolded for losing Yvonne to his new boss, and nearly died from it.