An Ignorant Witch by EM Graham

Author:EM Graham [Graham, EM]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781999390846
Publisher: OneEar Press
Published: 2019-07-24T22:00:00+00:00

12

AS I GOT OUT OF ALT and rode down Southside Road back towards Alice’s house, her phone started pinging like crazy.

I didn’t bother checking it. It was either her trying to find me, or someone else looking for Alice in which case I couldn’t help them. I let myself in her back door.

“Where have you been?” She looked up from where she was sitting at her kitchen table, her face even paler than usual. “I expected you an hour ago!”

“I thought I’d see if I could round up some help.”

“Your phone has been going nuts here. I didn’t answer it. Your Dad’s looking for you, and someone called H. Who’s that?”

“No one,” I said, hedging. “Just a friend.”

“I know all your friends,” she said, suspicion tinging her voice. “You’ve got me, and that dumb ghost in your house, and Maundy doesn’t phone.”

“He’s no one, all right?”

“He! You got a boyfriend? You didn’t tell me about a guy!”

I’d never told her about any of the guys I’d been with, because Alice just didn’t understand the allure of sex or things like that, she preferred her books. I knew for a fact she was still a virgin.

“No,” I said. “Look, he’s something to do with my father, okay? I think he’s a friend of Sasha’s. He’s not from here.”

“Euw, I don’t like your sister.”

“Me neither.”

Sasha. She’d changed so much over the past few months, I mean physically, getting even thinner and so gaunt her cheekbones looked like knives. Hanging out with Seth wasn’t good for her, and if I didn’t know her better, I might even worry about her. But she was just an anorexic bitch.

I sighed. I needed Alice’s help for Operation Benjy, seeing as there was just me and the dwarf so far. I hoped she could be counted on to grab the baby when we got into the fairy den and not get swallowed up by the fairy illusion. It was going to be rough, though.

“Alice, we’re going to try to rescue Benjy tomorrow evening. And the baby.”

She didn’t say a word. I could see the battle inside her between her rational scientific side and what she knew to be the truth.

“Who’s we?”

“You, me ... and a guy I met.”

“Is that H?”

“No, but...” Just the three of us, and Alice with no idea of her own powers, it was going to be tough to get both Benjy and the baby away, not to mention the gold for Dirk. Maybe I could make a bargain with Hugh...

“Maybe Hugh, I don’t know,” I amended.

“Not Sasha though?” She screwed up her face.

“No way, not my sister.”

“What are we going to do?”

“I haven’t gotten that far yet,” I admitted. “I’m going to think about that tonight. But you’ll need to be outside the first tunnel door tomorrow at six pm. Under the rock face that sticks out.”

“What, the tunnels on Southside Road? They’re all blocked off, and I’m not going into those tunnels at night!”

“No, we’re not doing that. We’re just meeting there. Can I count on you?”

“I have a lab tomorrow evening.

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