6 - The Lawyer & the Leprechaun: The Arcana Glen Major Arcana by Tara Maya

Author:Tara Maya [Maya, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Arcana Glen Major Arcana#6
Publisher: Misque Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

June 8, Wednesday evening

By now it was evening, and the air felt nippy. Mosquitoes buzzed around Eleni as she followed Owen across a gravel parking lot outside the Rock Amphitheater. The smell of hotdogs, hamburgers and popcorn, wafting from the concession stands, made Eleni’s stomach growl. Apparently Naeve was a dancer and her group would be performing here tonight.

The Rock Amphitheater was an outdoor arena carved directly from the rocks of the surrounding hillside. At the stage of the Rock Amphitheater, a tunnel led down a steep set of steps, past a cement wall signed with the names of all the artists who had performed at the amphitheater over the years, and brought them to a series of dressing rooms, storage rooms and offices.

The rooms were small, the walls bare cement, although Owen informed Eleni that they were full of signatures, painted or signed by every singer, band member, actor, comedian, dancer or other entertainer who had performed there. The pipes were exposed on the ceiling. And the entire area was thickly crowded with nervous people, arcanes and a few humans who obviously could see magic bustling down the halls. Everyone looked anxious and impatient. They were shouting at each other to hurry to do this or that. (Half of them were in costume, the other half were crew dressed in black slacks and turtlenecks, despite the June heat.)

The energy that buzzed off of the cast and staff like static electricity was actually magic. And despite angry shouting and arguments everywhere in the hallways, Eleni could see from the patterns of their thermal heat maps that most of the people were extremely happy. Excited. Normally people showed most of their energy only in the top portion of their torsos. But when they were extremely happy or engaging in strenuous physical activity, their entire bodies glowed from head to toe from shoulder to fingertips and thigh to ankle. In her vision she could also clearly distinguish the stage performers from the backstage crew. The stage performers were lit up incandescently in anticipation of their upcoming performance. The crew however were more phlegmatic, red along the core and head but dark along their legs and limbs.

“I think we’ve arrived at a bad time,” Eleni said. She had not forgotten or forgiven him for his involvement with imprisoning her sister. But now she was all business again, intending to get this case over with as soon as possible, just as she would with any distasteful element of her ordinary work.

“It’s always like this with these theater people,” he said. “The circus was just as bad.”

“But they look like they’re about to start a performance. The amphitheater is already full, and everyone is primed to go on stage.”

“Perfect. If they’re distracted, they’re more likely to answer our questions.”

“They? I thought we were here to see your ex-girlfriend. Ex-fiancé.”

“We are. But Naeve married her rebound, some wanker named Oliver. A fecking piper. He doesn’t like me either.”

“Hard to imagine.”

The Leprechaun found the dressing room he was looking for and burst right in without knocking.

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