Lord Ezra Delaney walked through the wall of his grandson’s study mid-morning on Saturday as if he were walking through an opened door. His face was grim but there was a joy in his expression as well. As Drake stared at his beloved grandfather, the wizard who had spent his entire life protecting this family from the rest of the world and had trained him to do the same, he wondered what it was to have caused such mixed emotions on his face.
“Can you not transport through doors like normal wizards?” Luella demanded angrily as she jumped at the apparition he made. “It borders pretentious. Just because you are the high and mighty Lord Ezra does not mean you should behave so obnoxious.” Sometimes her father-in-law was annoying and terrifying.
“Although the doors are much easier to use, someti
