My Blood Wizard System
I’m leaning against the coping in Remy’s black flannel, white coyote ears flicked up because I felt like it, wedding rings flashing every time I move.
Before anyone can even drop in, the sky tears open.
Not dramatically.
Bureaucratically.
A perfectly rectangular rift appears, crisp edges, glowing with the dull beige light of cosmic paperwork.
Out steps a creature that looks like a tax auditor had a baby with a black hole.
It wears a tie.
It carries a clipboard the size of a billboard.
It speaks in the voice of every DMV employee who ever ruined your day.
Multiversal Compliance Officer #472-B:
“Celeste Valentina Tsatoke, née Blackwing, Storm Queen, Luna of the Calder-Tsatoke pack, co-ruler of