The Sword Lord (32 page)

I'll admit it. Earth is a strange place these days. But it's still my home. I didn't flee through time to escape this world, but to discover new ones. And discover them I did.

My rather unique method of self-education caught the interest of the near-mythical Jaz, and she approached me with an astounding offer. In the place the interworld agencies call home, on Starhaven, there exists a watering hole called the Magitech Lounge, known as a refuge for all manner of sentient beings.

As Jaz told me, Earth could use a place like that. Even with all the preternaturals, parahumans and metahumans here, it's still a melting pot that hasn't been stirred real well. Normal folk are fascinated by the strange and unusual, but they're also still afraid of it and no amount of book learning will change that. They needed something a little more…immediate.

I took her offer. It wasn't as though I had anything better to do.

Earth's Magitech Lounge is in an old converted warehouse half a block off Haight Street in San Francisco, above which we set aside a few rooms for rent and my own living quarters and office.

San Francisco, as you can imagine, has become quite the Mecca for the preternatural and paranormal. Not as much as Tacoma, which is where it all began, but San Fran always did have an open-door policy for society's misfits.

 

 

The Sword Lord

 

 

 

Robert Leader

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