11 I now had two artifacts to investigate—the magical bullet and the pentagram amulet. That meant another trip to the magical realms. I sighed, preparing the grid and placing a small piece of brick from the paving in the shopping district I was heading to. Charlie and Charlotte watched me go. As familiars, they were supposed to help with powerful spells and amplify my magic, but there wasn’t much need for that nowadays. I still appreciated it, though. They could tell I’d been exhausted lately, and their adorable chattering was the last thing I heard before I arrived in Crowspeak Arcade. There were many conglomerations in the other realms that functioned similar to residential or commercial districts, some even combining to form something like a town. Crowspeak Arcade wasn’t quite that

