Blood Moon Rising by K R Thompson

Author:K R Thompson [Thompson, K R]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Magic Quill Press
Published: 2017-02-14T06:00:00+00:00

TRY AS I might, my crazy dream plagued me all day. Since Adam and I had somewhat ruled out Crow Woman as the killer, my attention stayed on the face that had flashed right before hers.

Wynter.

Granted, I was more than certain that she wasn’t the one responsible for her own sister’s murder, but she very well could be the one who had killed the coyote and the bear. Would a Spriteblood skin her prey? I wondered. I wasn’t sure that Adam would know the answer to that question, so I filed it away in the back of my mind to ask him later—after I did some investigating of my own.

During second period I headed to the library under the guise of checking out some resource books for biology class. I pushed through the ornate wooden doors and found Marianne, Ed’s mom, standing behind the librarian’s desk.

“What are you doing here?” I asked. I’d never seen her outside of the Res, so finding her here had caught me off guard.

She gave me a forced smile. “Mr. Giles called and asked if I’d mind coming in to help. I didn’t know that he meant helping in here. I thought he was asking me to be the substitute teacher for art class again.” Her eyes darted to the bookshelves to her right, as if she expected them to move at any moment. “If I’d known that he meant for me to stay in here and keep up while Wynter was gone, I might have told him no.” She looked as if she was ready to jump out of her skin.

Then she noticed I was watching her and she laughed. “I promise I’m not going to run. At least not yet. What can I help you find in here, Nikki?”

“Actually, I just came in here to see if anything would give me a clue as to where she went,” I told her, not bothering to give her the excuse of resource books. “I thought maybe we might have missed something when we were here last time.”

She nodded. “It wouldn’t be hard to miss something in here. Things keep moving around every time I turn my back. She might not be here, but her magic still is,” she whispered as the doors opened and another student came in.

“If it’s all right, I’m going to wander around a bit and see if I can pick up on anything,” I said as the boy got in line behind me to wait his turn.

“Wander all you’d like and if you need any help, just let me know.” Marianne planted another forced, friendly smile on her face as I left.

I walked slowly down the first aisle, letting down my mental walls and focusing on the magic around me in the same way that I would to hear the Keepers’ thoughts. I ran my fingers along the carved wood of the bookshelves as I walked, waiting for something to move, to show me the secrets the library held. I rounded the corner and went down the next aisle.

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