The Tower Of The Watchful Eye: The Legend Of Kairu Book 1 by Tim McFarlane Page B

desk.
    “ That didn’t sound too good,” I said dropping the
scrolls.
    He chuckled
nervously. “They have been at each other’s throats for years now
and nothing ever comes from it. I wouldn’t worry too much about it.
How did you like your first meeting?”
    “ Shocking,” I answered. “Nothing happened.”
    He chuckled
again sounding more himself. “Get used to it. It takes weeks to get
anything done with them.”
    “ Has it always been like that? With the Masters always
disagreeing?” I asked.
    “ Some topics are worse then others, but yes,” he answered.
“Sometimes it is just about blocking another Master’s idea. Other
times it is because they actually disagree with the
method.”
    “ What were your opinions on the topics?” I asked.
    Keeper
Anderson let out a long breath. “We aren’t allowed opinions, BUT,
for the sake of the conversation, I side with Master Pryce on the
Nesqa – Balendar conflict. Something doesn’t seem right with the
whole thing.”
    “ But not the Evenawks?” I asked.
    He shook his
head. “Ghanlar is too important to us. Master Gerth is right, we
should take out the leaders and the others will fall silent.”
    “ You don’t seem too pleased with these events,” I
said.
    He smiled
weakly. “You’ve never been outside the tower have you?”
    “ No, I haven’t,” I replied.
    “ I’ll have to send you on a task soon,” he said. “See Kalenden
for yourself. But until then, why don’t you take the afternoon to
familiarise yourself with the Archives a bit. We aren’t needed for
anything until tonight for the next Coming of Age
Ceremony.”
    “ There aren’t any events we need to record?” I
asked.
    “ Oh, there are,” he said playfully. “But we can’t record them
until after they happen. I’ll let you know when I get word of
something. If you need my help with anything in the Archives, you
can find me in here, usually. I just have to run down and let a
Teacher know about Thomas’s flower. I’ll be back in a
bit.”
    “ Thank you, Keeper Anderson,” I said.
    “ Oh, come on now,” he said with a chuckle. “We are going to be
like family now. Just call me Jacob.”
    “ Thank you, Jacob,” I said.
    “ Good luck in studies, Andy,” The Keeper said as he headed out
of his office.
    I followed him
out but headed around the corridor to find the room marked
rituals.
    It’s about time, Cathy
said.
    Look, I had to
make things look normal.
    Well, I’m bored, she said. There is nothing to do here.
    I have the
time to go through the books and get you out of my head. You’ll be
back haunting my dreams before you know it.
    Tell you what, she said as I found the door to the ritual archives. You
get me out of here and I’ll leave you alone.
    Really?
    Really , she responded.
    I opened the
door and the room was almost an exact duplicate of the Crime room
only instead of tomes being in the bookcases there were scrolls,
lots and lots of scrolls.
    It’s a good
thing I have the afternoon.
    Why? she asked.
    We are going
to need it.
    For hours, I
searched the scrolls getting distracted by the interesting rituals
I saw: Spirit Transference, Resurrection for Smaller Creatures,
Duplicating Item. Finally I had to stop and grab an empty tome from
The Keeper’s office so I could record some of these for future
study. I was a Keeper after all, what would be wrong with me
studying rituals?
    You could screw them up and burn the Tower to the
ground? Cathy pitched.
    It was a
rhetorical question, and stop reading my mind.
    Stop shouting your thoughts then, she responded.
    I scribbled
the rituals down in the tome as fast as I could but the evening
drew closer and closer. Finally I had found a dusty, ancient
looking scroll containing the ritual on Exorcism of Demons.
    Found it.
    Can you do it? She asked.
    I don’t see
why not. I’ll have to gather a few items.
    I searched
through the scroll and found the four items I needed: Goat’s fur,
Blood of a Possessed, Bee’s Honey and