Between Time by Bond Carolyn

Author:Bond, Carolyn [Bond, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Timepiece Books
Published: 2016-02-11T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17 – HESTER

Ben and Jacob were sitting on the couch at Allen’s dorm watching him eat take out from the Europa Café. Marie, Tom, and Henry appeared in the middle of the room. They’d gone back the Gathering to talk and agreed with Marie that Hester would likely be watching Allen to find Marie. It was evening when they got there.

“Hi Ben! Hey Jacob!” said Marie. “How’s it going here?”

Ben looked up and smiled. “Pretty quiet. He’s been depressed for a while now.”

Henry stepped forward, “Have you seen anything strange with the Shadows?”

Ben looked at Jacob, who then answered, “Not that you could put your finger on. There has been a definite uptick in incidents. Just Shadows tailing him all the time. It’s like they won’t leave him alone

“That’s what we came to talk to you about,” Henry said. “We have a couple of ideas about what might be going on. From what we have figured out, there is a common thread. There seems to be some woman named Hester Farr that was in Tom and Jenny’s past that may be the root of this. From what Jenny said, she was not a very friendly person and may have it out for them but they don’t really know why. Have you ever seen a woman with long curly red hair, a little scary looking, around Allen or Marie?”

Ben thought for a minute, “Yeah, actually, right after the drowning in reservoir, when we were back here, a woman materialized near Marie and was taunting me. She matched that description.”

Marie felt a shiver run down her spine. She wondered about the person she saw at the bottom of the reservoir. Could that have been Hester even then? She realized this person was definitely persistent.

“She said I was legendary among the Shadows. Why would she say that? What would make me any different,” Marie asked.

“Well,” said Henry, “In my work, I usually track souls like Hester. They are an interesting breed. They usually have an ax to grind and they are attracted to something they want.”

“Okay. So what do I have that she wants?”

“I can think of one thing,” said Tom, “For as long as I can remember, you have had an incredible ability to shake off suggestions by the shadows. You’re like Teflon to them. It has made it incredibly easy to be your Protector. Usually I just keep you from falling out of 3rd story windows when you hang out of them. You’re more a danger to yourself than they are to you. Most souls that end up being Shadows in the ‘other’ world seem to be bad luck magnets. Besides being accident prone, they are very easily led around by the Shadows around them.

If Hester sees that you have some ability for ‘good luck”, never putting two and two together that avoiding suggestions by the Shadows may be what helps you, she may very well be curious.”

“Curious, I could understand, but she seems bent on getting Marie. It doesn’t add up,” said Henry as he pondered this thought.

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