As a result of our little spat, the name I think of as my real one got taken away.

Yes, the crones who measure out the destiny of every living being like threads for a tapestry are my own flesh and blood. Unfortunately, I’d had a little disagreement with my family’s matriarchs, better know as the Fates. That’s Ravirn, which I still insist on for daily wear. I don’t much like being called Raven and it isn’t the name I was born with. “I wish you’d never taught us this game, little Raven.” “I believe that’s three hands in a row,” chortled Dave.īob, the Doberman third head, gave me a gimlet look. But as far I could tell, none of them were cheating and they all seemed to enjoy it. They had to do an elaborate dance that involved a lot of closing of eyes and some sort of special deal with the central intelligence that ran the body and connected the heads in order to even make the game possible. He was my normal partner, if you could call anything about playing bridge with the three-headed dog of the underworld normal. “Read it and weep!” said the middle head. Not much of a card, but enough to take the trick and fulfill our contract. I flipped my last card over, the six of spades. Her current address would have been hard enough to bear if it weren’t my fault she’d ended up on the wrong side of the river. My lover’s computer-familiar, Shara was the child of her magic, and a dear friend of mine. The river Styx lay behind him, and beyond it the gate to Hades, land of the dead and present residence of a webgoblin by the name of Shara. “We haven’t got all night.”Īlmost against my will, I looked over Cerberus’s shoulder. “Oh, get on with it,” growled the right head, the one called Mort, a mastiff. But here I was standing practically in his mouths, trick in hand. There was no dog older or more dangerous. Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? The eyes of Cerberus glared down at me, six balls of black fire. CyberMancy also sees Ravirn learning what it means to be the Raven and coping with his new status among the descendants of the Titan’s as he interacts with old “friends” like the Furies and meets new ones like Hades and Persephoneīuy now: Amazon Kindle, (Sponsored links) Mobipocket,, Barnes and Noble, NookĬybermancy: Book #2 of the WebMage Story, an Excerpt The sequel to WebMage sends Ravirn and Melchior on a mission to Hell and back to rescue Cerice’s familiar and her dissertation.

Cybermancy by Kelly McCullough