About Thyme (Isabella Proctor Cozy Paranormal Mysteries Book 8) by Lisa Bouchard

Author:Lisa Bouchard [Bouchard, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-08-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

I wasn’t looking forward to being a spider again, but no other small animal would work as well. Mice were too large, flying insects tended to get swatted at, and the spiders Jameson and I would be mimicking were exceptionally fast.

We cast our cloaking spell and teleported ourselves to the side door of Chandler House. After Grandma released my hand, she disabled the alarms and cast a spell to open the lock. She held the door open for us, and we slipped in. I dropped my cloaking spell, shrank myself down, and cast a spider glamour on myself. Jameson did the same, and we made our way through the silent building.

Jameson stopped for a minute. I waited next to him, hoping he’d tell me what was going on. “Most of the wards on the house have been lifted. We can probably do whatever magic we want and not alert anyone.”

“Why would they do that?” I asked as we continued to walk. It didn’t make sense to remove protections, especially now that they knew we could attack them in their stronghold.

The first floor looked abandoned. Moldy, smelly dishes sat in the sink and on the kitchen table. The fraternity must have left them when they thought the house was burning down. There was evidence they’d come back, though, because the first floor museum had almost nothing left in its cases. “What do you make of this?” I asked Jameson as we made our way through the empty exhibits.

He climbed up on the tallest exhibit case to look around. “They took everything that had even a tiny bit of magic. I can see faint residue from displays that hadn’t been touched for decades, but nothing left in the room has any magic.”

I shook my head at the way he dropped his enormous powers into conversation. “You can feel when an object is magic? Or when a magical item has been in a spot? How?”

He scurried down the case to the floor. “Practice. You’ll be able to do it when you’re older too. If you keep up with your lessons.”

I didn’t like the judgmental tone in his voice. “I’ve been practicing. Dead leaves don’t crumble apart when I teleport them anymore. Mostly, anyway.” I followed him as he started walking up the stairs to the second floor. It was much easier for me to keep up with him this time, now that I had experience being a spider.

“So, you’re making progress. Good. Next I want you to start teleporting eggs. Eggs are almost as delicate as dead leaves, and you need to start working with items that are three-dimensional. Teleporting and holding an egg in an upright position is much more difficult. And might I suggest moving them from one container to another.”

We reached the top of the stairs and began to look around at the abandoned offices. “Why use containers?” I asked.

He turned back to look at me. “Because you’re going to make a horrible mess when you first start. And if you contain the broken eggs in a bowl, we can have omelets.

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