A Devil in Every Dark Corner by Amanda Braun Boe

Author:Amanda Braun Boe [Boe, Amanda Braun]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-10-22T00:00:00+00:00

We walked down the snow-packed gravel road, headed toward the car. We all felt too tired and spellbound to talk. I stared at my feet, wondering what the answer to all of this was. We had fought a lot of magical creatures, but their magic was usually as pathetic as ours. I didn’t want to admit that Chace was right, but I also didn’t know what we were going to do. What could you say about a witch who could wallop you without even lifting a finger?

As my mind drifted, my eyes focused on something dotting the cold, white road. As we walked, the copper drops gave way to a thin stream stained on the hardened snow. Then we ran. As we came up to the car, Carmen pointed into the trees. But I had already seen them. It was hard not to. When Lulu spotted them, she looked away. It was a family, hanging in the tall oaks. To put it mildly, they were not whole.

Carmen held Lulu around the shoulders, comforting her in that way that only Carmen could. They didn’t look at the trees. In fact, they both tried hard not to look at the trees, like any normal person would. But not me. I stared, thinking of what the Thistle Witch had done to her own parents, to the doctor and assistant, to the relatives of Mary Smith, to her own siblings, and to my friends. I stared until the bodies seemed to flicker, and then suddenly they were gone, along with the blood on the road.

“What does it mean?” asked Lulu.

“The Thistle Witch has killed again,” said Carmen, quietly.

She took Horatio out of her pocket and nestled him. Lulu and Carmen stood there, staring at me. They stared at me while I stared at the empty trees that swayed in the wind, shaking their branches in the cold air, like they were still trying to free themselves from the remnants of a dirty spell.

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