Marie
After Bartimaeus had been dismissed I quickly levitated the carpet over the pentacles, it was way too lumpy to distinguish the objects in my pentacle anyways, and took the guise of a cockroach. As soon as all six of my legs had touched the floor, the door opened, and Maxim's apprentice, Nico, stepped in. Not the best looking boy either, his nose was too big and his ears faced outwards like a monkey. He had buck teeth and breathed out of his mouth. Not to mention the food stained clothes he always wore. Overall he was disgusting. He scanned the room, and I quickly flipped over to my back. He made a disgusted face when he saw me.
"THERE'S NO ONE IN HERE!"
He shouted down the steps. He was quite tall for only twelve, having almost a full nine inches on me. I heard a muffled voice coming from the kitchen, when it finished, Nico stepped out and started down the stairs.
"LYNN! THERE'S A DEAD COCKROACH YOU NEED TO CLEAN UP!"
Wonderful, now I needed to wait for the maid to go away. Or dispose of her… nah, too risky. What I did was I closed the door and sealed it with a spell I created, that had the same effect as sealing the door with molten silver. When I turned back and lifted the carpet, I discovered that the pentacles were smeared, so much for my non-smear chalk.
After I redrew the pentacles, and had rid myself of the herbs that Maxim could eventually use as evidence as to who broke into his house and stole things, while also summoning an afrit to go on a rampage through his private quarters tonight, and a bunch of other things to annoy the heck out of him. I wouldn't have to worry about it for a couple months even if I left it there. He's not too bright in the logic department. I heard the maid banging on the door, but to no avail. Eventually she left. I mean, why should she care about a dead cockroach in a room no on even used? That and the whispers of that afrit I summoned earlier… Once I finally got around to summoning Bartimaeus again, it was getting dark. He looked some-what glad to be able to ask his questions.
"So… "
"Hurry up and ask all you want, we don't have all the time in the world."
I said, floating up to a more comfortable position.
"About the whole half djinni thing, I have no idea how that would work, so I'm not even going to ask about that. Now why did you even summon me in the first place? Obviously for something, not just to hear me talk, although I am very interesting."
"Well, the thing is, as you already know, I'm not normal. Which means the things I do and the trouble I get into are not normal. I'm in a sticky spot, and knowing about your past, I couldn't think of a better qualified Djinni. I therefore command you to do what I say, when I say it, and without turning it around for your own amusement, which would only get you the red hot stipples, until I decide to dismiss you. Now wait for me outside."
He disappeared, and I walked over to the window at the far side of the room, throwing it open. I climbed up onto the window sill, looking at the ground four stories below me, and jumped. Turning into a falcon at the last second, and flying straight through the third plane defense nexus, leaving it unbroken.