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- Develop the structure and oversee process for identifying quality measure workgroup panels.Serve as staff liaison for the Advisory Council on Quality (ACQ) and the Quality Measures Task Force (QMTF).
- Serve as primary liaison to performance measures agencies (e.g. CMS Physician Quality Measurement Management (PQMM), AMA Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (PCPI), National Quality Measures Clearinghouse, [NQMC], etc.
- Monitor and assess the AAO-HNSF quality measure development process to ensure we are meeting the most current standards (NQMC, CMS, NQF, PQRS, etc.).
- Collaborate with Education BU on identifying and developing appropriate quality measure products for lifelong learning efforts.
- Work together with Senior Director and Senior Manager on assessing plan for performance measure development.
Senior Manager, Quality & Performance Measurement
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required. Minimum of five years experience in healthcare or related environment; or two to three years of experience and a related Masters Degree. Familiarity with quality measure development and stewardship, data management, statistical analysis, and fundamentals of research methodology preferred. Understanding and knowledge of
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successfully multi-task competing priorities. Working knowledge of quality measurement, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and National Quality Forum(NQF) processes a plus. Some travel required.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the development of quality measures for otolaryngology.
- Support submission of applications for topic nominations for national calls for measures—NQF, CMS, and Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance (AQA).
- Work with Director to form measure development panels; support panels in staff liaison role including identifying panel members, communicating with panels through conference call and email, setting up panel meetings, maintaining all records of measure development meetings.
- Participate in and provide information to the CMS Physician Quality Measurement Management (PQMM) calls for measures and biweekly conference calls
- Develop, maintain, and update technical specifications for measures, documentation for data collection and reporting measures.
- Track performance measurement sets and individual measures endorsement status of AAO-HNS measures in Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), AQA, NQF, health plan initiatives, and registries and measures developed by other relevant stakeholders. Maintain a database of all relevant measures for otolaryngologists.
- Responsible for managing implementation of AAO-HNSF measures into national reporting programs such as Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS).
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``While women in flats face eviction, women on the streets face violence and discrimination,'' Niki Adams, a spokeswoman for the Collective, told Reuters.
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|Nahor, son of Serug
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Nahor, Nachor, or Naghor (Heb. נָחֹור ISO 259-3 Naḥor) may refer to three different names in the Hebrew Bible: two biblical people, who were both descendants of Shem, and one biblical place named after one of these descendants.
|Nahor, son of Serug
Nahor, from "Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum"
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|Terah, and other sons and daughters
In Genesis Chapter 11, Nahor is listed as the son of Serug.[v.22] He was born and raised in the Sumerian city-state of Ur on the Euphrates River of lower Mesopotamia, about four Millennia ago.[1] He lived to be 148 years old [v.24,25] and had a son, Terah at the age of 29.[v.24] He was also the grandfather of Abraham, Nahor II and Haran, all descendants of Shem.[v.10,25-27][2]
In Jubilees, Nahor's mother was Milcah daughter of Kaber. Nahor also married 'Iyoska, daughter of Nesteg of the kin of Ur Kasdim, a son of Arpachshad for whom Ur was named.
In the account of Terah's family, mentioned in Gen.11:26-32, Nahor II is listed as the son of Terah, amongst two other brothers, Abram and Haran.[v.26,27] His grandfather was Nahor I, son of Serug. Nahor married the daughter of his brother Haran, Milcah, his niece.[v.29] They were all born and raised in the city of Ur.[citation needed] When Abram, had an encounter with God,[3] this brother directed his family to leave their native land and go to the land of Canaan. Terah, their father, coordinated the gathering of his family to journey west to their destination.[v.31] They followed the Euphrates River, with their herds, to the Padan-aram region. This was about halfway along the Fertile Crescent between Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean, in what is now southeastern Turkey.[4] In this region, Nahor and his family settled except for his brother Haran, who had died sometime ago back in Ur.[V.28] The city where they settled, Harran, is the place that Nahor's father eventually died.[V.32]
Nahor II continued his own travels and settled in the region of Aram Naharaim where he founded the town, Nahor.[Gen.24:10] Here, he had eight sons to Milcah:[Gen.22:19-23]
To his concubine, Reumah, Nahor had these sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maacah.[Gen.22:24]


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Messages of support, stress and alarm flooded Facebook, Twitter, texts and phone conversations as the community collectively held its breath, waiting for news about the girl's welfare.
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Neither the girl, nor her parents, are to blame for her abduction. The blame lies solely on her abductor.
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A jury is set to hear a former Struthers police officer's OVI case
Jury trial is set for Struthers ex-cop
A former Struthers police officer who lost his job over an OVI charge is set to have a jury trial in October.
Daniel Lamping, 34, was a seven-year member of the Struthers police force when an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper stopped him July 16, 2012, on South Avenue in Boardman. He was driving without headlights, and the trooper smelled alcohol, say documents in Mahoning County Court in Boardman.
The city fired him July 27, 2012. Lamping appealed the firing through his police union to a state arbitrator, but that appeal was denied in January.
Lamping, who pleaded innocent at his arraignment last year, lost a motion to suppress evidence in the criminal case in October.
Because he refused a breath test the night of his arrest, he received an automatic license suspension of one year.
In an unusual move, the court postponed that suspension at his arraignment when he appealed a routine hearing that would have taken place there.
The assistant prosecutor on the case was expecting the automatic license suspension hearing to take place then at the October hearing, but when he asked Judge Joseph Houser to have it, Lamping's attorney objected. Judge Houser sustained the objection.
The Boardman court said it has no record of the ALS ever taking place, and if one had, it would be in the court's file.
Martin Hume, the assistant prosecutor in the case, could not be reached for comment.
The court said the trial will be at the end of October, but no specific date is set.
Really?!?! Hats off to the excellent report writing from the vindy! Good job ladies (Jean Starmack) and gentleman (EW) keep up the good work!
And this is 'news.'?!? If only the vindy would apply their resources to things that mattered... they might not be a total joke.
I can't believe that this is all they want to talk about when it's been over a year!!! Get a life starmack!! Maybe we should turn focus on your "relations" with the SPD, I bet that would get more ppl interested!
@dumbdem, yes I will stick up for him, all because the jack hole mayor doesn't like him and has made it known to not only a few ppl, but to many ppl! Maybe society should worry about their own problems and stop worrying and harassing others... Your name says it all too!! Dumbdem!!!
Dumbdem, good thing you are perfect and have no problem with reading agenda driven bs. This has nothing to do with his job status, which was resolved. This is now a private citizen going through due process... Not news. Celebrating someone losing their job shows enough about your character.
Please inform us of the other issues he had at SPD since starmack hasn't found any.
Some jobs carry more responsibility and liability. And on top of that some jobs like these are political to boot. I know a beaver township cop who only keeps his job because of his bosses. He's one of the most racist, boozers I know and there's no way his people don't know this. People who know him say he get hammered and routinely gets behind the wheel of a car. But Struthers PD is in a quandary because here you have a cop who can't drive for a year. What do you do with him? If they can't drive they are of little use.
@gdog4766, I understand about liability and responsibilities, he has already gone through enough, we get it! He lost his job so like LRG said he his now a citizen going through due process..as far as for what SPD could've done, why not do what they did with other officers that have gotten into similar situations and they could've offered him a desk job...look at how many officers in all cities have DUI's and still have their jobs..there is no evidence of him having a bad jacket or having other issues!! Ppl need to start stepping back and asking themselves, what if this was my son or daughter, brother or sister..it's about time that ppl let this issue go
@gdog4766, this cop was always allowed to drive and had work privleges...get your facts right before you post stuff.
And wow! Ed wildes, the safety service director, and the mayor must have a lot of time on their hands to make sure this vindy had this story written up. Way to take care of the city guys!! The Struthers politicians will always be a joke because of this stuff. Nobody takes them seriously anyway!!
The news article itself states because he refused the PBT that he would lose his license for a year. Look idiot if this relative of yours is in trouble don't attack people over it. Read the fifth paragraph before you shoot your mouth off. And he should have lost his license for a year cop or not!
Starmack is hardly the authority on law in ohio. If she wants to accuse the judge of doing some misconduct, she should have fun with that. I am sure Judge Houser appreciates the veiled allegations in this pile of crap. The only new fact is that a trial date was set. Everything else is rehashing old crap because of her agenda.
So I guess now I challenge (the excellent reporter she is) Starmack to come up with some real news! How about investigating the two senseless, and probably preventable deaths at the waste water treatment plant! I'm sure the families would like an explanation!
The mayor and his cohorts preach accountability, but seem to fall short when accountability may effect them. Sounds like selective accountability to me!
MGG0828 you wrote "Ppl need to start stepping back and asking themselves, what if this was my son or daughter, brother or sister..it's about time that ppl let this issue go"
Mr Lamping chose to drink and drive. We cannot choose to play the "what if" game. If that is the case "what if" he killed your son or daughter, brother or sister" would you be so inclined to say "let the issue go"? I doubt it.
He chose to drink and drive and now has to suffer the consequences. I love how people bring up well so and so did this. Those wrongs do not make his actions right.
Even in the video tape he has to mention that he is a "cop" so he expects special treatment. That doesn't work for anyone else. How can we trust Lamping to protect and serve when he has no regards for the safety of others when he endangered the public with his actions.
@mudduck and dumbdem, if you two think that SPD and other police officers need to be held at a higher standard and they need to be able to serve and protect and be trusted, maybe you two should look into who struthers has on the police force and look at records, a LOT worse then an OVI!!! This will be my last comment on this subject matter because I have better things to do with my life than listen to this bs...
So two wrongs make a right? We are not discussing "other" officers are we. Stay focused. What other proof do you have that others on the force have done "worse". Boy you make no sense. Plus since you live in this "if" world ... what if someone got hurt? what BS are you listening to? People that want police to lead by example. Your BS is just let cops get away with everything. Yea you make sense. Obviously you have better things to do because you can't face the truth or reality. What a sheltered life you live where cops and people aren't held responsible for their actions. Maybe IF you could be rational and have reasoning you could sit down and talk to someone who lost a loved one to a drunk driver and see that it is a SERIOUS offense since you believe it is not...
This is good news!! I am sick and tired of people getting "special" treatment just because they are a cop or a judge, etc. "Oh, he was a good guy that just made a mistake". B.S. They knew better. Better even than the average 20 y.o. that probably gets the book thrown at them because they couldn't get a good attorney that has lunch with the judge every Tuesday. "Oh, but he lost his job...isn't that enough?". NO. It's not. A lot of people lose their job for dui or other offenses and still must face the consequences of their actions. "They could have given him a desk job". NO. If he had taken the breathalyzer and pleaded guilty I might consider looking at his record and giving a guy a second chance. But no, he thinks he is above the law and will fight it, hoping for some kind of technicality to get away with it. Cops like that should never again be allowed to work in L.E. anywhere. Find something else to do.
I thought this would have been over by now, seems like an open and shut case...if you are OVI


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How to Make Delicious Hummus
Hummus is considered as one of the easiest and most delish snacks that you can make. A lot of people have their own style or version when it comes to making Hummus. Hummus is basically a nutritious snack or appetizer that you can consume in many ways. Some people use it as a sandwich spread, while others eat it with pita bread. If you're one of those who really don't have enough time to spend in the kitchen, then let me share with you a very simple Hummus recipe that you can pull off in an instant.
First you need to prepare the following ingredients:
- Garlic (1 clove and 1 clove, chopped)
- 1 can of Garbanzo beans
- Lemon juice (3-4 tbsps.)
- Tahini (2-3tbsps.)
- Salt (1 tsp.)
- Olive oil (2 tbsps.)
- Black pepper
Once you have all the ingredients, you can start making your hummus by simply adding everything together. First, put one clove of garlic straight into a blender. Blend until it gets chopped. After this, add the garbanzo beans. Don't forget to reserve a little amount for the garnishing. And then add on the lemon juice, more chopped garlic, tahini and salt. Just keep on blending until the consistency becomes creamy. Once that's done, place the mixture in a bowl and add the olive oil and the extra beans as garnish. For added taste, you can sprinkle black pepper.
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Hey there! I´m new to this community and not as good as most of the artists I´ve seen here so far... But I´m trying to improve my skills and would be very glad if some of you could give me tips at how to get better!
In the past I didn´t do much realistic drawing... I was stuck on manga -.-;;
But now I want to study media-design so I want to concentrate more on this! (Because manga isn´t very popular among the professors in the univeritys I want to apply at! xD)
So I applied for a drawing course and try to practice as often as I can! (because of work it´s sometimes really hard to do so.. )
But I still make a lot of mistakes
So as for my works I uploaded below, the scans are not that good... My scanner is very small and I´m still trying to figure out how I get the best scans possible... (but fail as you can clearly see... )
so I want to appologize for the bad quality and for my grammar... xD (Also one thing I have to improve in! My English isn´t very good either...)
So that´s it for now! I hope my pictures aren´t that bad and some of you will be kind enough to help me even if my pics aren´t the best! But I promise I will keep on practising!!
Bye Aayana~
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Hey Aayana, Welcome to CA . Your Glasse is really good, I really like those little details. But to be a good artist, there is no secrets : draw, draw, draw, from life, from refs,.... Try to study anything, perspective, values, color/light, anatomy, design and composition, .... Try to see inspiring sketchbooks, like algenpfleger, Mr.Delicious, to know how study things. And always keep it up !!
Welcome Aayana!
This is a nice start! Your characters are lovely. You need to find your own style now, and work at it. And in the same time follow the Walid's advice. Draw the more you can. Always keep a sketchbook with you, and when you see an intersting face, place, light, composition, vegetable? whatever! Draw it!
But don't forget to have fun! Your drawings tell you have, so keep have fun drawing, and you'll make amazing progress!
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i could kick an eggs ass if i wanted to
@Walid: Thank you for your advice!! I looked trough the galleries you recommended and they were really good and make me want to get as good as them (even if I´m far faaaaar away from that quality...but well...I´ll keep on practising!)
@Clochette: Thank youuu!! Yeah I really like drawing but still most of my pictures don´t turn out the way I want them to... but I will keep in mínd what you said and practise, practise, practice and try to find my own style in drawing!
sooo today I just have a small update... yesterday I tried to draw cherries with AdobePhotoshop... it´s a photostudy...but doesn´t look like the real thing...
But it´s my first try to do a photo-study with my computer... it was somehow really diffucult for me... but it was also fun and I think next time I will be able to handle it a little bit better (and I also tried to do portraits with computer...but they turned out to be so bad...I would be really embaressed if someone actually saw them... I would die to know how all those great artists on ca manage to draw such great portraits with computer... I still have to figure out most functions of my programm... ö__Ö; but just so you know...I wasn´t that lazy and just drew the cherries...the other stuff is just....too bad to show... xDD and today I started some snotomystudy with my anatomyfigure...I think I will put them online tomorrow or the day after tomorrow... ._.
Anyway...below is my sad result of the wannabe-cherries...
(and another question...could someone tell me how I can change the link in my signature so that the link is changed to "sketchbook" and when you click it, you get to see it..?? I´m really dumb when it comes to computerthings... would be really nice if someone could tell me... because it doesn´t look nice when you see the whole link instead of just the words "my sketchbook"...)
so that´s it for today! :-)
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=140426 my sketchbook
... didn´t get to practise much these past two days, because of birthdaypreparations... anyways...I try to get better... :-(
Just quick Photostudy of Marilyn Monroe... with two felt pens...
there are a lot of mistakes, but I couldn´t erase it so..
the other two are just some studies with my anatomydoll... (don´t know the right word for it...)
also not very good... but they were also done rather quickly...
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=140426 my sketchbook
Very nice render on the glass, and the cranium. I dig your colored illustrations too. Keep sharing
I found this site from another post in someones sketch book, youll find Andrew Loomis books you can read which i find very helpful. Bridgman is also very good but i didnt find any books of his on the scribd site.
Aayana, your cherries are not bad at all ! be carreful, shadow on cherries are too dark to be real, and you've let a blank area between cherries and their cast shadow !!! And next time, save your painting as a jpeg and not as a gif, okay xD
Keep working on proportions, and when you'll be at ease with that, so start putting values ! Keep it up and have fun
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Shannon Delany
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Chapter One
There life is supremely easy for men.
No snow is there, nor ever heavy winter storm, nor rain.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The darkness of the alley rivaled the intent blackening the hooded woman's words.
As surely as dusk had fallen on Philadelphia, so too did it seem one of the city's great families would also fall.
"Are you most certain?" asked the woman's companion, a man of perhaps forty years. He snatched at his rioting hat as a breeze sliced down the alley, making both watchmen and lantern light shiver in its wake. He cursed the need to meet in such a place—one of the few alleys where the substandard candlelit lanterns were still required. Gas lines were too great (and volatile) a temptation for this neighborhood's inhabitants and too much a hassle elsewhere. And, while stormlight illuminated most of the city, no such technology was wasted
No one of Lord Stevenson's rank wished to be caught dead in the Below. And caught dead was certainly a possibility in this neighborhood considering the turf disputes between the Blood Tubs and Moyamensing Killers. "To storm such an estate on the Hill and be
… And on the night of young Lady Jordan Astraea's seventeenth natal celebration…"
The watchmen shifted at his words, woolen coats rustling as they raised their gazes toward the estate balanced on the mountain above. The Hill was the safest realty in Philadelphia.
When the Wildkin War had pushed the residents of what was briefly called Society Hill up Philadelphia's slopes and away from the hungry lapping of the waters (and the hungrier things swimming within their depths) the Astraeas had been the first family to stake a claim. Now there was no returning to the first properties the great families had owned. The recent influx of immigrants had turned the area's elegant original homes into squalid tenements and boardinghouses. Not that the wealthy would want to return with the water so dangerously close.
The hesitancy of the lord's words ill matched his desires to move against the Astraeas, and the young woman knew it. She had been careful selecting this Council member and contacting him through subtle means. His grudge against the Astraea family was long-standing, though most had forgotten it.
But, even so young, she had a gift for discovering the little things that either pulled men together or divided them. It was a precious and necessary family trait when one held her social standing. "I know this as well as I know my own name," she snapped. Moon-white gloves appeared long enough to tug the deep hood of her Kinsale cloak farther down, swallowing any hint of her face in shadow. A ruby flashed on one finger before her hands disappeared once more into rich folds of velvet.
The Councilman's gaze flicked from the mysterious lady to the fluttering light of the smoke-stained lanterns near the alley's entrance. "One might suppose you, too, are a Witch—the way the wind cries when you are angered…"
suppose," she quipped, the breeze playing with the heavy velvet hem, "that such words would be considered treasonous considering my rank. Go to the Astraea estate this evening. The Witch will be there, as I've said."
Light stuttered across his sharp features and he nodded. Shrinking against a fresh chill, he pulled his tall hat's brim lower over his brow. "And who—?"
She held her hand up, silencing him. "Bring a Tester. He will know the Witch easily enough."
He waited in silence with the watchmen—with no Weather Wraiths currently in Philadelphia proper he had settled for using simple men—until the lady disappeared from the alley and the sounds of a carriage rattling across cobblestones told of her departure.
He did not need her surname to guess her rank. From the noise on the street he knew her carriage was horse-drawn by a single, calm steed, like the carefully tended cavalry's or the privately owned ones barely afforded in the city—not like the wild-eyed and panicky survivors of Merrow attacks. A steed such as hers would have been well protected, stabled, and that took significant money.
She was at least a member of the Fourth of the Nine and that was good enough for him.
Finding another Weather Witch at the Astraea estate meant further lessening old Morgan Astraea's influence by casting doubt on the high-ranking Councilman. He'd do anything to peel one of Astraea's fingers back from the reins he held, anything that would put himself a step closer to achieving his goals.
"We must hurry. Call in the nearest Tester and a Ring of Wraiths. There will be some nearby Gathering. If we are to do this we must do it well and professionally."
A watchman split from their group, jogging to obediently do his duty.
The dying light of sunset streaked across the public's promised clear sky, illuminating the fat-bellied airships hanging overhead as they awaited instructions for their coast into the Eastern Mountain Port. It would be a clear night for docking cargo, with rain scheduled to fall on Tuesdays and alternating Fridays only.
Lord Stevenson reached up to his hatband to adjust a metal and glass contraption nestled there, bringing its system of lenses and scopes over the hat's brim and down to sit on the bridge of his nose. Blinking as he rolled a finger across a small brass gear by one of the two scopes, he flipped through a series of tiny lenses, watching the atmosphere high above him come into sharp focus. Faint and feathery disruptions overhead manifested as wisps of clouds, which slowly edged their way across the evening sky, pulling in from all directions to draw together above Philadelphia's most desirable real estate: the Hill.
And remarkably near the Astraea estate, which sat at the Hill's crest like the king of the stone-faced mountain.
The newspaper folded near Bran's elbow was a distinct temptation with its headline of
Unseasonable Frosts Frustrate Philadelphia
. Bran ran the back of his hand across his forehead and tried to focus on the books lying open before him.
A Genealogy of Witches, Wardens, and Wraiths
was heavy enough reading, but writing the blasted thing? Even worse. He tapped his pen's steel nib to clear it of ink and set it down.
But the only way to track the Weather Witches was through their lineage—family lines meant much as magicking was one of the traits passed to one's offspring. Whereas one might attribute a propensity for headaches to pale blue-eyed people living in very sunny climes, connecting physical traits to witchery was not so simple.
Were brown-eyed brunettes more likely to trigger and demonstrate witchery than green-eyed blondes? Statistically speaking, no. But redheads … gingers … they were fiery in more ways than one.
He blew on the page and tenderly lifted its corner, lingering on the memory of a redheaded girl from his hometown. More trouble than he had ever expected. He grinned, but, catching himself, squashed the expression and refocused on his task.
Gingers and anyone from Galeyn Turell's line seemed particularly prone to witchery. It was as they said: "The apple does not fall far from the tree."
Luckily, all Weather Witches manifested their affinity for magicking before the age of sixteen.
His desk lantern's brilliance ebbed, its glass panes reflecting equal amounts of shadow and light. He leaned forward to inspect it. The glowing double-terminated crystal powering its interior seemed constricted, producing only a soft, wavering glow. He glanced at the lanterns lining his library walls. The fire hazard of candles and brief monopoly of gas had been replaced years ago in most of the country by stormlight and their energy source: stormcells, tiny crystals that held power and eased it out slowly.
But even that technology was not without flaws. It did have a distinctly human origin.
His room still radiated a soft white light, each stormcell bright and steady except for the one on his desk.
The one that mattered most.
He shook his head and picked up the set of bone keys resting on his desk's corner. A Maker should be afforded plenty of light for his work.
He snatched up a smaller journal and opened it, running one finger down a list of names and times. Someone was not doing what they needed to … Ah. His finger stopped on the name of a freshly Made girl.
Age six and recently Gathered from Boston.
Most people would expect little from a child—yes, a sense of decorum and proper etiquette, of course that, but usually they had another year or two before they were thrust into some form of necessary employment. But Witches were different little beasts. Age was of far less importance than proper training.
Witches Burned Out. Best to train them up, Make them, and pull all the power from them as quickly as one could—harness the energy before it dissipated—before they died, leaving only one final stormcell, one specially colored crystal, their
soul stone,
This child was too young—too newly Made—to be Fading. Either she wasn't trying or she wasn't Drawing Down enough.
He pushed his chair back, picked up the lantern, hung the keys on his belt, and grabbed his small journal. Tank Five. Best go and deal with the problem now rather than suffer the consequences of not solving it later.
Out the door and along the narrow hall he went. Down seven flights of stairs. That was the real headache of maintaining rooms in the Eastern Tower's upper apartments—traveling so far up and down just to reach the Holding Tanks. At the eighth floor's landing he peered through the narrow strip of smudged glass at eye level and, steeling himself, opened the heavy wood and iron door. He paused there, nose stinging at the thick scents of chamber pots, old hay, sweating rocks, and perspiring people.
The Tanks were worse than any stable he'd ever been in, especially in the crawling heat of late summer, and the Tanks Witches stayed in before their Reckoning? Not a thought he liked to dwell on. Night only faintly dulled the rankness stabbing his sinuses and left him a little less dizzy than day. Frankly, had there been no problem with any Witch, he would never venture down to the Tanks. But he was the Maker and a Maker's reputation was built on his successes.
Or destroyed through his failures.
But, he had made enough changes in his system since the escape of the Kruse boy.
He raised the nearly dead lantern, its rectangular glass panes shimmering more from other lanterns' lights than its own power. He slipped on a pair of thick gloves hanging by the door with a snap of rubber, feeling them fall into a proper and clinging fit.
Bran tugged out his journal and found the girl's name. He called, "Sybil! Sybil, do you hear me?"
A moan drifted to his ears.
His lantern flickered in response.
He stood before her door in an instant, his hand fumbling through the bone keys. He found the one he needed and popped the door open. In the dark cell the child lay flopped like a rag doll in the straw of her bedding. Moonlight streamed through the bars in the only outside-facing window on Floor Eight and he scrambled forward, reaching a tentative hand toward her forehead.
Fever could spread like western wildfire in the Tanks and wipe clean an entire season of Witches before racing through the compound, murdering the Grounded populace, too. Even through the gloves, the touch of her flesh reassured Bran there was not enough heat to prove fever. He shifted his hand, clamping it more tightly to her brow.
There was barely enough heat to prove life.
Sybil's flesh was cold as the water in the claustrophobic cell's corner bucket. Bran stretched the distance and dragged the sloshing wooden pail to him with a grunt. "You aren't drinking," he muttered, noting the volume of water remaining. "You can't Draw Down if you don't drink. And you can't Light Up if you don't Draw Down. Sit," he demanded, grabbing her arm in an effort to right her.
He dragged her limp form up until she nearly appeared seated normally against the damp stone wall—although her head lolled on her slender neck and her eyes remained unfocused and dull.
The lantern in her Tank was as dead as her expression. She hadn't even managed to keep her personal lantern powered. Or perhaps she no longer cared to.
Bran reached into the bucket, fishing for the awkward thing at its bottom that was both spoon and cup. His fingers towed it up, gloves coming back slick with a rainbow's oily sheen. "Dammit." He kicked the bucket over, water splashing toward the sluggish drain in the room's center, and he stormed out the door, fist curled tight around the empty container's handle.
The watchman at the hall's end raised his head in question.
"When was the last time the Witches had fresh water?"
The man blanched, shrugging his shoulders. "They have
water," Bran demanded. "They cannot Draw Down properly if they don't drink. And they can't drink
." He whipped the bucket out at the man, clipping his chin with the bucket's edge. "Do right by me or your reputation will suffer."
The man rubbed his jaw but nodded.
"As will your face," Bran added. He shoved out the door and jogged down the last flights, coming out onto Holgate's main square.
By night the compound was an eerie sight. Built by a Hessian with a penchant for castles and Old World architecture, it was in stark contrast to almost every other place in the Americas. Which was why it was perfect for Making Witches. Close to a large freshwater lake but far enough inland from the bay to make Merrow attacks difficult (Holgate and Philadelphia being determined not to suffer as Baltimore had), the place provided all he needed. Water to make weather, height to catch air and lightning, and rock so chances were less they'd catch fire and burn.
Chances being
were, of course, far from a guarantee.
The base of what the occupants called Tanks and Tower was broad stacked and mortared rock that shimmered when flecks of mica and pyrite caught the moonlight, making the place ripple at night like some otherworldly locale. Bran shook the thought from his head.
There was no otherworldly
. He was a man of science. His reputation depended on it. The fairy tales and things that still held sway in rustic churches and around fires late at night had been proven to be of
Yes, there were things that stole children from their cribs at night and monsters that ate his fellow men. There were misbegotten and misshapen beasts that haunted deep forests and abandoned houses and there were certainly devils seemingly drawn from man's darkest desires. And magick. Grim, dangerous magick that tore families and empires apart. But none of that magick was here.
Not in the truly civilized parts of the New World.
The Wildkin, including the Merrow, Pooka, Kelpies, Gytrash, Oisin, Wolfkin, Kumiho, and a host of others were as firmly of
world as the other natives that called themselves the People.
And they were just as unwanted.
Magickers were expressly forbidden in the New World. The only ones that had crossed the ocean were the result of Galeyn Turell's bizarre Making when the Merrow—naturally occurring beasts only a few distant cousins beyond the normal human family—attacked the ship the girl had been on after an accident that had killed one of their princes.
If Galeyn hadn't demonstrated her strange weather-wielding powers as the Merrow slithered their way across the boat's blood- and gore-slicked deck the winds would never have kicked up and hurled the Merrow away, and the ship would've never vaulted into the air and made it to the colonies.
And there would be no Wildkin War.
How eagerly since then had foreign authors turned a blind eye to the true nature of the Merrow—Hans Christian Andersen the worst offender, using fiction in an attempt to fashion peace.
Unbidden, Bran's eyes went from the well and pump in the town's square to the descended portcullis, and the lake and bay not far beyond. The Merrow were never more than a heavy flood away from Holgate's lake …
He hooked the bucket onto the heavy faucet's head and, grabbing the pump's handle, filled it in one long stroke. He was back inside and up the stairs nearly as fast as he'd come down, the burden of the water secondary to the fact that a dead Witch would mar his record.
Nearly as much as the escape of a previous Witch had.
The Witches were all he had. For better or worse they were his only go at immortality. His was one of the most important jobs in all of the Americas. His might be a name to continue on along with those of other great men. Like that of presidents or generals, or like his father.
Or he could be forgotten, leaving nothing of note behind.
He could fail.
"Here," he said, scooping the water and pressing the ladle against her thin, pale lips. Water poured across her cheeks and chin, spilling down her throat to soak into the linen shift she wore.
She shivered and choked, but she swallowed. She drank. So he scooped more and poured more and she sputtered, her already large eyes going wider. He slowed the flow of liquid, letting her catch up with a few eager swallows before she shook her head and mumbled something.
Her eyes, now slightly brighter, remained unfocused and her lips fluttered before she had air enough behind her thoughts to form words. She blinked at him, coughed, and tried once more.
Her voice strained and small, she said, "They come. And there is naught to be done for it."
She gasped and the stormcell in his lantern blazed so bright blue he fell backward, blinded. The lantern flew from his hands, glass splintering as the thing burst into pieces, the glaring soul stone tumbling free and into the thick and dusty hay.
By the time it returned to its normal intensity and most of his vision was back, Sybil was the cold of death, the very same cold as wildly running water.
"The stone," Bran hissed, sifting through the wet straw and grime, his fingers blackening with filth as he hunted for the elusive sparkle of a soul stone. "Aaah!" he exclaimed, pulling his hand up to his face, glass sticking out of it like porcupine quills. "Damnnn…" Bleeding and cursing, he pulled the splinters free, and stood to sweep the floor with his booted foot instead, fingers plunged into his mouth and filling it with the taste of iron and dirt.
His stomach dropped when he heard the distinct sound of something scraping across the last bit of a grate before clinking its way into the darkness of the room's single and filthy drain.
The soul stone was as good as gone.
Copyright © 2013 by Shannon Delany
Since she was a child SHANNON DELANY has written stories, beginning writing in earnest when her grandmother fell unexpectedly ill. Previously a teacher and now a farmer raising heritage livestock, Shannon lives and writes in Upstate New York and enjoys traveling to talk to people about most anything.
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