"Shouldn't the authorities be showing up around now?" Magic didn't work obviously, something was preventing either me or Hanlon from using our abilities (and not just the usual magic cancel or redirect, it was some kind of overall anti magical ability).
"You have far too much trust in the authorities Trezlan, clearly they have been paid off."
"What about your own employees?"
"Left my radio in my other suit, we'll have to sort this shit out ourselves." Hanlon seemed unhinged, like I get that way when my magic isn't working, but I think this is the first time he'd been without whatever dark power he connected to. The men had stopped shooting and were now moving up to flanking positions. I did at least take solace in that they were using Morley's guns and not Hanlons. Morley for all his magical ability lacked Hanlon's expertise with fire arms, his weapons constantly jammed or didn't work right (but his weapons were cheap so they had that going for them).
In fact Morley's shitty guns actually helped us get away, while Hanlon and I were surveying a route out of there one of his men came upon us and attempted to open fire, but his gun jammed. He attempted to clear it, but Hanlon was on him in an instant. He struck him in the face with his left hand and at the same time drew the mans knife and gutted him with his right. He stripped the jammed rifle off the body and handed it to me while he took the mans unused side arm.
"Unjam that, probably something in the feed mechanism Morley's engineers suck at designing them." I got to work on freeing the jam, it was in the feed mechanism as Hanlon had surmised. I actually surprised myself by getting it free so easily.
"GOT IT!" I said overly loud thus alerting a nearby soldier to our presence, I felt a knife whistling by my face as Hanlon dealt with the alerted man.
"Next time say it in a whisper, or better yet don't say it all." We moved from our position in the market to a near by building the appeared to be some kind of warehouse. It seemed empty of people but not all kinds of boxes. Which at least provided cover from the rest of Morley's outfit.
"This is totally your fault." The rifle only had about five bullets left in its magazine, Hanlon had not thought to take anymore from the dead man when he hand it over.
"I'm glad you are seeing these things as clearly as you usually do." Hanlon did not see my logic, but it was pretty unassailable, I wouldn't be in the situation I was in if not for Hanlon, so this was completely his fault.
"I'm just saying if you hadn't come when I called."
"I did not come when I was called, I am not your dog Trezlan, I merely heard you were looking for me and so I found you, so this was your fault since clearly these men pursued you, in a way I'm almost wondering if you are working for Morley." I notice he wasn't looking at the windows anymore and had the pistol trained on me.
"Whoa whoa are we getting to this point in our relationship." I aimed the rifle at him in response.
"Looks like it Trezlan why don't you tell me what Morley's real plan is before I kill you." And so despite armed men looking for us, Hanlon and I damned near killed each other. Well I should say I almost shot Hanlon and he almost killed me, I don't think normal weapons can harm Hanlon, I don't know if anything really can. Anyway I say almost because we obviously didn't! I would really hope I was past the "everyone is betraying me part of my life" but I'm not. Sadly Hanlon was right I was unwillingly part of Morley's plan, but you know the drill next entry!
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