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CLAIM DENIED
963 words · 2 chapters · 1 mob contributor
Milo Vance investigates claims for Hayclon Mutual, a company that has insured wizards, witches and the occasional very strange ordinary person since 1642. His job is to determine whether the thing that ate your kitchen is covered. Poltergeist: yes; poltergeist you summoned: no; poltergeist you summoned by accident while attempting to summon a different poltergeist: see clause 14(b). Milo is a wizard, technically. He can light a candle from across a room and that is roughly the extent of it, which is how a man ends up in insurance. But it takes a wizard to audit a wizard, and Milo has two things the talented ones don't: an aversion to danger and hard work. Incidentally, Milo is 28 with no girlfriend and lives in a broken-down micro-studio in Seattle but that’s all about to change. When a seemingly routine claim unravels into a massive, city-wide magical conspiracy, Milo’s carefully cultivated life of mediocrity is violently interrupted. Specifically, it is interrupted when Milo is killed. But instead of the abyss, Milo wakes up exactly one hour earlier. Can he save himself or will he just die again?