(eng) Pauline Creeden - Chronicles of Steele 03 by Raven Episode Three

Author:Raven Episode Three [Three, Raven Episode]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Without tears, weakness cannot leave the body.

Don’t be afraid to let them go—the weakness and the tears.

RAVEN STOOD BEHIND Colton and the witch as they attended to the child. Nurse Raven? How ridiculous a proposition that would be? However, the witch asked her to get a few things for her out of the carpet bag.

“Doctor, this is a pure and simple case of walking pneumonia in my opinion, would you agree?” the woman asked.

Colton nodded his head, his face grave. “Yes. With rest and herbs she should be rid of the cough and congestion in another week or two.”

“I have the antibiotic herbs and some fever reducing spices for them to put into broth.” The witch wiped her hands on her apron and held out her hand for the carpet bag. Raven handed it to her directly.

“You are an excellent herbalist, madam. And with your skills at diagnostics, it’s a wonder that you didn’t go to the university and get a medical degree.”

The old woman blushed and pushed on his shoulder like a school girl. She batted her eyelashes at him. “Go on, young man. You certainly know how to flatter a woman.”

Between the two of them, they finished administering the medications and started a boiler in the room with some menthol herbs. Afterward, they all stepped out into the hallway. Raven could remain silent no longer. “Madam, do you happen to know the whereabouts of the official Wood Witch? She has kidnapped a child that was in my care, and I am desperate for his return.”

The woman’s face fell into a frown. She scratched a mole on her chin while her cold blue eyes assessed Raven again. “If the Wood Witch has your child, it is a grave matter, indeed. As I said, the witch uses the darkest of alchemy and will be performing the process of taking the child’s power. Was he a special child?”

Raven’s imagination drew outlandish conclusions, and she couldn’t speak for a moment with her heart in her throat.

Colton answered for her. “Yes, he has been diagnosed by a priest as having a demon. The demon causes the child to have seizures and electrical items around him go quite haywire.”

The witch cackled. “Oh my. A demon?” She laughed harder.

Raven frowned at the woman who laughed so hard she literally slapped her knee. Shaking her head and wiping a tear from her eye, the witch finally got hold of herself. “That child has no demon. He has a rare gift. Electromagnetic manipulation. The child just has no control over it.”

Raven blinked hard.

Colton stammered. “Electromagnetic manipulation? You believe he has control over machines with his mind?”

The old woman tapped Colton on the nose with the tip of her finger and batted her eyelashes again. “Exactly. You’re a smart one, too.”

Raven shook her head at the flirting old woman. “So if we don’t find Darius soon, you are saying the witch will eat his heart to gain the power of electro…whatever you call it?”

The woman rolled her eyes and nodded.

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