An Ordinary Fairy by Osborne John

Author:Osborne, John [Osborne, John]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Photographers, Fairies, Contemporary, General, Fantasy, Suspense, Fiction
ISBN: 9781451587890
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2010-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

Once changed, Noah started the movie, turned up the volume and shut off all the lights so the television glow illuminated the room. He retrieved his coat and put on his gloves. Willow pulled rubber gloves from her pocket, put them on and covered them with regular gloves. Last, they pulled on stocking caps.

A small window in the bathroom opened to the dark, backside of the motel. Noah opened it and popped the screen, then climbed out and dropped to the ground. Willow followed suit, except she winked out of sight before coming out the window.

Clear sky and a late-rising moon promised concealment. They walked along the edge of the fields and passed behind an abandoned factory building, and then turned east toward downtown. They waited for a break in the traffic on Route 1, ran across to McFerren Park and jumped the fence. Noah set a good pace across the park, angling north toward downtown, and they soon passed through the stone arch over the park entrance.

“Willow, where are you?” Noah whispered in no particular direction.

“Right here,” she whispered back. “I mean beside you on your right.”

Don’t look that direction, Noah.

He could just make out the patter of Willow’s little feet on the pavement.

“This blinking thing you do is weird,” Noah said.

“It’s winking, not blinking.”

“Right. How long can you stay … winked?”

“About half an hour. It takes a lot of energy, but I’ll be okay. We should be to Chester’s in ten minutes or so. Cut north one block and take the next alley east. We’ll go past the village hall and make sure his car is there.”

Noah worked at walking the right speed. He wanted to appear to be out for exercise, though most people out at night for exercise wore bright colors, not dark. In less than five minutes, they passed the village hall and Willow confirmed Jones’s car was in the parking lot. They walked one block south and turned east into the alley that passed behind Jones’s house. Three more blocks brought them to the back of Jones’s property, bordered along the alley by a six-foot high privacy fence with a locked gate.

Noah slipped into the shadow of the fence and stood with his back against it, glad that no streetlights illuminated the back of the house. He heard a zipper and some shuffling as Willow removed her jacket and, he presumed, tied it around her waist. A low buzz let him track her position as she floated over the fence and landed inside. The latch moved and the gate swung open.

Neat. Weird, but neat.

After he went through, the gate closed and latched itself. Soon an invisible little hand took his and pulled him toward the house.

“So far, so good,” Noah whispered. “How do we get in?” Willow didn’t answer for a moment.

“I’m going to reconnoiter,” she said and released his hand. “I’ll try the widow’s walk first. I doubt it’s locked, or has a lock, and you’d be surprised how many people don’t bother to lock their second floor windows.

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