Chapter 18

Mattt smiled, “I knew you’d see the light.”

Bartz glanced at Nata, “Turn him into something that doesn’t have a mouth.”

Nata rubbed her hands together in glee. “With pleasure. He’d make a great dung worm. And it won’t take much magic.”

“Hold it! Hold it,” Mattt said. “I thought there were rules that mages couldn’t use magic against normals.”

“There are,” Bartz agreed. “Only the rules do not apply when a member of the royal house is missing. All bets are off.”

“Besides,” Nata said. “I’m an arch mage. Who’s going to stop me?”

Bartz just nodded. “Feel free to morph him at will. I think he’d make a fine one-eyed slime.”

“Hold on! Hold on!” Mattt said, shaking his hands violently. “There must be another way.”

“Actually there is,” Bartz said, running his fingers through his bright blue hair. He figured the kid, besides being spunky, had to be pretty good at what he did. After all, he was able to eavesdrop on them and then follow them undetec