A Right Proper Murder (The Infiniti in the Gaslamp Mysteries. A Historical Fantasy Book 1) by Pearl Goodfellow

Author:Pearl Goodfellow [Goodfellow, Pearl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pearl Goodfellow
Published: 2019-03-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

“You can’t go to sleep, lady,” Gloom said, tapping Clara Bennett’s forehead with an irate paw. “We need to make a phone call, remember?” The woman, having only just moments ago flopped backward, fully dressed, onto her bed, sat bolt upright. “Why must you keep speaking of this call? What call?” Clara flopped back onto the bed again. “Cell phones and webdams,” she muttered under her breath. “What nonsense.”

“Hello!” Gloom said, rapping her paw on the young woman’s skull, now. “Earth to …. Medieval woman.” Clara opened one eye and turned her head. “Urth?” She said, looking closely at Gloom. “Is that your name, kitty?”

From the bottom of the bed Fraidy broke into a bloodcurdling wail. “I knew it!” He screamed, leaping from the bed, and running in all directions across the bedroom floor. “We’re in another dimension!” Fraidy stopped in his tracks, and looked at Clara. “Say we’re not in Vera. Say it. Say this place isn’t called Vera.”

Clara rolled onto her side and propped herself up on an elbow. “Vera? Well, I suppose if one suffered from a speech impediment one might call it such a name, but, no, silly cat, this planet is called Thera. You must know this, surely. Being as life, as far as science tells us, is only supported on one planet. And this is it. Thera.”

“Nope, nope, nope,” Jet said, also leaping to the floor. He paused briefly by the bed, and pushed his peacock feather under the furniture out of harm's way. He then bolted, and ran in zig-zags across the room, barely missing his careening brother.

“Jet! Fraidy!” Onyx commanded. “Enough! Calm yourselves immediately.” Fraidy and Jet came to a stop and looked pleadingly at their leader. “But, Thera, O,” Fraidy begged. “It sounds like Vera, and Hinrika wasn’t really sure what the correct name of the world was, remember?”

“What, prey tell, is going on?” Clara said, pushing herself up and staring at the cats with a concerned brow. “We’re from Earth, lady. A planet called Earth. That’s E.A.R.T.H. And that’s where we should B.E.” Gloom’s tail quivered as she spoke.

“But you understand us,” Carbon objected. He took a seat next to Clara on the rose-covered counterpane. “We thought we were close to our home being that this is a magical place and all. And how come you and everyone else understands us if you’re not from the Coven Isles?”

Midnight, who had been sat next to Clara’s head, began pawing at the young woman’s reticule. The night-loving cat chewed on a brocade drawstring and forced a paw inside the purse. Clara felt the struggle behind her, and turned. “What in heaven’s name are you doing, cat?” She lunged for the purse, but Midnight was too quick. He batted out the amber bauble, and it flew in a slow-arc spin through the air toward the other side of the room. Midnight tore off the bed, retrieved the fallen gem in his mouth and hopped back onto the bed, spitting the amber blob out next to Clara’s hand.

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