7 - Death & the Detective: he Arcana Glen Sweet Paranormal Romance - Major Arcana Series Book 7 by Tara Maya

Author:Tara Maya [Maya, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Arcana Glen Major Arcana#7
Publisher: Misque Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

July 10, Sunday

“It’s not a date,” said Mercy. “I understand that you probably don’t want to start a new relationship right when you’re dealing with all of this. But you asked me about where you could learn more, and this is the perfect place.

“Okay, you can open your eyes now.”

They had agreed to meet for a non-date on Main Street. Mercy had ridden her bike and Miles had driven his car and parked a few blocks away. She had made him close his eyes while she dragged him down the sidewalk to whatever surprise she had waiting.

He opened his eyes. “Oh. Yeah, I‘ve passed this store dozens of times. I never even thought about going inside. I drink coffee.”

The pretty little shop was called Tea & Tarot. Generally, Miles tried to avoid shops that had overly cute names and catered to mystical pretensions. This shop did both.

“The shop owner is a very nice Elf named Bella,” said Mercy, “Although, lately, her daughter Tia or another young woman is usually the one working. There’s even a shop girl who works here who is like you in some ways. She was born completely human but called to magic as an adult. I’m not sure exactly what her power is, only that her Hourglass changed after she developed magic. Her lifespan dramatically increased. So, there’s that advantage of becoming an arcane. Although, in your case I don’t know how that would apply, since I can’t even tell if you have a lifespan in the usual sense of the term.”

As they entered the shop, a bell over the door rang. A cheerful young woman in her twenties called to them from the counter. “Good morning! I’m Tia. Let me know if I can help you find anything.”

Miles shrugged and went over to the counter. “Actually, yes. I am looking for books on a kind of magic ball.”

“Magic ball?” Tia crinkled her nose in puzzlement.

The shop girl looked at Mercy, but Mercy only shrugged. “It’s not my field. From what he described to me; it sounds like some kind of alchemical thing. Symbols used by mages.”

“Oh.” From Tia’s expression, it was clear this did not narrow things down.

“Spinning balls of light with different designs on them, geometrical shapes, maybe numbers, in a row down the spine, starting with white and going in rainbow order to red.” Miles demonstrated on his own torso, drawing an imaginary line from just above his head down to his jeans.

“Do you mean chakras?” asked Tia. “By the Light, we have a whole section on that!”

Miles followed her to a portion of the bookstore where he saw book after book with illustrations that were obviously trying to capture the same images he had seen. The cartoon images were not quite as three-dimensional as the real-life version, of course. They didn’t quite capture the amazing way the lights seem to pour out from within a person’s soul, shining through their body like a light through a piece of paper. But he got the idea, and he knew this was exactly what he had seen.

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