Resurrection Bridge by Sean Cunningham

of the current political situation, Miss Jessica,” Mr Shell replied. Jessica hadn’t paid too much attention to that side of things, because she found politics dreadfully boring. At last, it had grown interesting! If only someone had told her before that politics involved kidnapping. “Okay, let me get this straight. The guy who used to run the Shadow Council, who you say used to make things really hard for you, said you should kidnap Miss Sharma and get her to do alchemy for you. That means me and my friends will chase you down for kidnapping. Then you’ll be stuck hiding behind the aforementioned guy who used to run the Shadow Council, that used to make things really hard for you?” She worked her way back and forth through that, using her fingers to count. “Does that make sense? I’m a bit new to politics, to be honest.” The female werewolf drew herself up to her full height. She moved right up close to the lead Cafoten and bared her teeth at him. The leader glared right back, but Jessica could tell he felt he was on shaky ground. “We’re going to try this again,” the female werewolf said. “I—” “A different way,” she snarled. “A way that doesn’t leave us in the middle of a fight between magicians.” “Yeah, I’m with Yasmin,” Sadhil said. “You never said we’d end up facing Fiona Kendall and her lot. I don’t fancy that, Kasra. I’ve heard what happens around them.” The lead werewolf, less the leader by the moment, had shrunk back before Yasmin. His ears were flat against his skull, b