“Right.Oh, this was that gremlin property.Right.Well, good luck with Izzy.I have seen her work.It’s good.”
“Thank you.I have a few more houses to check on.Thanks for meeting me here.”
“No problem.All part of the service.”He nodded and left.Analytical mages were not normally so social.
Hannah checked her schedule and saw she had to look at two more houses that the mayor wanted filled, plus Neekil’s farmhouse and dark elf caverns were really coming along.Everything should be habitable by the end of the month, in four days.Neekil and his brothers were so excited it was ridiculous.
The bed made of stone was growing on her.Her new dark elf skin didn’t sweat as much, and she could really take a pounding with something rigid under her, and over her, for that matter.
She locked up the boarded-up door, put a lockbox on the knob, and sent the code to the restoration specialist.Her siblings and parents were ready to go crazy on this build to get in the good graces of the mayor.
Hannah had already made an impression on the head of the city.Now her family wanted to take a crack at it.
* * * *
Isocar looked at thelockbox information and smiled.“Grandma, I have another job to do.”
Her grandmother smiled and rocked in her chair.“Good.Maybe this place will start feeling like home.”
“Grandma.How is restoring burned buildings going to make things feel like home?”
Her grandmother smiled and picked up her tea, taking a sip.“You will figure it out.”
“You could be less vague, Grandma.”
“Dearest Izzy, I have been dead for ten months.You need to get back to the world.”
“You don’t feel dead to me, Grandma.”
“You are keeping me alive, Izzy.That’s not good.It is hard on you.”
“I am fine, Grandma.I have plenty of energy, and it’s nice to be able to use it to focus you.When you really want to go, let me know.”
Her grandmother crossed her arms.“Absolutely not.I heard the sentence you didn’t say.”
“What?”
“That you will be right behind me.”
Izzy sighed and pulled on her sunglasses and sweatshirt with her company logo on it.“We will discuss this when I am back.For now, I have to rescue a house.”
“Fine.I will be here.”
Izzy made sure she had her identification, her mage license, and a backup set of sunglasses with her phone.It was orc territory, so she would run into the clan chief in the first five minutes.It would probably be when she was removing the block from the door.
She got into her small SUV and drove to the neighbourhood in question.She knew which one was the house the moment she turned the corner.Smoke and fire left a stamp on the structure.It would take a lot of magic to fix the house, but she was up to it.
She parked in the drive and flipped her hoodie up, switching her colour-obscuring lenses for the shading ones.
Izzy walked around to the hatch and opened it, removing her screwdriver and a bunch of bits as well as a collection box.
She was about to turn to the house when a large green shadow crossed over her.“Hello, Clan Chief Oory.Hannah Lee mentioned I was coming?”
“How do you know who I am?”
She looked up at the scarred orc woman, who was six foot three.“Lucky guess.”
The woman scowled.“You hide your eyes?”
