Margaret Ball - Career Day

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CAREER DAY
Margaret Ball
The damn beeper went off just as I was .parrying the two big guys' swords at once. I've seen
Vordo do this in the arena, and it's a neat trick; if you work it right you can catch them with
their own blades crossed at your guard, give a little zotz to the pommel and they're both
disarmed. Of course it doesn't work unless you can arrange to be fighting two big stupid
swordsmen who get in each other's way. And it doesn't work at all if Call Trans-Forwarding
distracts you for a crucial split-second. I bungled the parry badly; sliced one man's hand off
and had to shove the point of my sword into the other one's throat to keep him from toppling
onto me.
I guess I can't really blame it on the call. Vordo never lets himself be distracted by anything.
I'd love to take lessons from him, but he doesn't teach. Actually I'd love to do just about
anything you name with Vordo. Not only is he the greatest fighter on Dazau, he's also a hunk:
golden hair and thews to die for.
Duke Zolkir would not be pleased. He'd specifically said to bring them back alive for
questioning. Well, there were still three left, and the one with the missing hand might make it if
I got it bound up in time; and at least I had time to push the bronze stud on my right wristband
that activated the vocal transform and stopped the beeping.
"May I speak with Riva Konneva, please?" chirped the voice on the other end of the link.
"Speaking," I snarled. The thief whose hand I'd lopped off was bleeding to death in the dust.
His three buddies weren't helping him, but they weren't backing off enough for me to safely
help him, either.
"Riva, this is Jill Garner? With the PTA Volunteer Committee? It's about the field trip to
Shady Brook Stables? We need another driver, and I thought that since you don't work…"
"I do work," I told the wristband. "I'm working now, as a matter of fact." One of the three
remaining thieves was trying to circle around to my left.
"Oh. I just thought, since the only number listed for you is your home phone… Do you work
at home?"
"Sometimes." That was more or less true. Dazau was my home; Jill's planet was just a
temporary address. The man behind me on the left was moving in now, confident that I hadn't
noticed him.
"I suppose I'll have to call Vera Boatright, then."
Jill sounded depressed. "She's about the only mother eft who's at home, because her church
disapproves of women having careers."
The little sneak was close enough now. I hooked one foot behind his leg and brought him
down with a thump. He tried to curl up from the ground with his dagger out, but that sort of
move is hard to do if you don't keep your abdominals in shape. I stomped on his knee. It
crunched and he collapsed back in the dust, moaning slightly. I really hate the sound of a
breaking kneecap.
"Disapproves of women working? Will the church pay my rent if I quit?" I asked. At the
moment I wasn't all that crazy about my job.
The other two thieves backed off and made comments about Unfair Use of Wizardly
Devices.
Jill sighed. "It doesn't work that way. She probably won't do the field trip, either, because I
think they also disapprove of girls riding horseback. Say, I've got an idea! Instead of driving
the field trip…"
The skinny one in the purple robe dived forward, scattering something like sand in front of
him with both hands. I squeezed my eyes shut just in time and struck out, blind, in the direction
where the sharpies felt thickest. Tiny needles stung all over my arm, but my sword whacked
into something yielding that moaned.
"Spellsharpies," I said. "That's dirty fighting."
"What?" said Jill.
The air felt clear again. I squinted through my lashes and saw part of the purple robe lying
on the sand at my right side. The other half was wriggling and flopping in front of me.
"You cheated first," said the last thief. "Calling up them there wizardly advice spells outa
the air."
"I didn't call her, she called me."
"How would you like to take the class to your workplace for Careers Week?"
"I'm gonna tell Duke Zolkir you cheat."
"That's perfectly fine with me. Come back right now and tell him in person."
"Perfectly fine? Oh, wonderful!" Jill chirped. "I knew I could count on you, Riva. Will next
Wednesday be all right?"
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