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rest of the night reading the section of the spellbook which I always skipped over in other books. I normally didn’t bother with it, as I couldn’t see how it would help me, and all I really cared about was learning the spells. Master Mathorn’s speech had convinced me to study it, at least this one time.

Chapter Four
    It had been a year since Master Shadow asked me to take over as head of Black Ops for the Wizard Navy following our return from Operation Show of Force. He told me time and time again that I was more than ready for this leadership role, but I found it hard to believe him.
    I looked over at Spectra who reached out and gave my shoulder a squeeze. I was more nervous than I could ever remember being before. Master Shadow had asked me to lead this rescue operation as part of the training for my new position. “ Is everyone in place? ” I sent.
    “ Master Dusty, we are ready, ” came the reply from Darkstone.
    “ How about you, Spectra?” I sent privately.
    “ Just get me in, and I can get us out. We can do this, Dusty,” she sent.
    With the changes that had come to magic, Spectra could no longer gate to a place unless she had physically been there. That meant we had to get her in through more mundane means, but once inside she could gate us all out.
    We were deep inside a space station in foreign territory. It had taken us over a week to sneak in and study the prison, but we were finally ready to make our move. Before us stood a multi-locked door that had a layered energy field covering it and four heavily-armed guards. “ Darkstone, you have the two on the left. I’ll take the right, and remember that our goal is to disable, not eliminate. Everyone, we need to keep our cool, but move fast. Once we start our raid, time will be against us. ”
    Black Ops was all about timing. I knew that in a few minutes there would be a shift rotation, and we could not move until that was complete. We needed as much time as possible between when we acted and when someone became aware of what we had done.
    The shift change came right on schedule, and once I was sure it was clear I gave the signal to move. Darkstone and I silently moved towards our targets. Once we were in range, we both cast our freeze spell that temporarily immobilized the guards. They could still see and hear, but not react.
    “ Clear! Cymeion, you’re up next ,” I sent.
    Cymeionheaded to the control panel, and after what seemed like far too long, he was able to open the doors.
    “Move!” I sent.
    My team quickly and silently entered the prison complex. “ Cymeion, seal us in. We won’t need that door again. ”
    Once he had the door closed, he shortcircuited the control panel and summoned a wall of stone to cover it.
    “ We have at most ten minutes until those frozen guards are discovered, ” I reminded everyone and then led my team deeper into the complex. It was not long before we hit the next set of security barriers. As before, we froze the guards, slipped in, and blocked the door from the inside. We did the same with the next door.
    We had almost made it completely inside when the alarms began to sound. We were at the last door when the halls filled with the sounds of men yelling orders and emergency locks being set. The guards at the last remaining door drew their weapons and spread out. We could no longer catch them all in one freeze spell as they were too far apart.
    “ More are probably on the way, ” sent Spectra.
    “ Take them down,” I sent back to her.
    She stepped out of the shadows as she cast her spell. Watching her work was almost hypnotizing. Her body flowed gracefully as if it were partly fluid. For a moment, all my attention was on her as she danced. Her movements were enchanting and enticing. I would have been happy to stay there all night watching her dance.
    The guards saw her and were pulled in by the dance, and for an instant they were completely enthralled. As one, they turned ashen and fell to the ground as