Blood of Egypt: Kallen's Tale by Lamer Bonnie

Author:Lamer, Bonnie [Lamer, Bonnie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Paranormal & Urban, Paranormal, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Published: 2014-06-04T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

One hour and five minutes later there is a knock on the door. Agent Amman has spent the last five minutes pacing the floor and has a withering look on his face when he pulls the door open and confronts the person who dared to be five minutes late. A woman in her late fifties or early sixties breezes into the room as if he had given her the brightest smile. She has gray hair pulled back into a loose bun, a rather pear-shaped body yet still quite thin, and is wearing a dull gray jacket and skirt that hangs loosely on her frame. She is carrying two cloth shopping bags which she brings into the living room and sets on the low table between the couches.

“I had to run here and there across the city,” the woman says in heavily accented English. “Why do you need such items?”

To my great surprise, he tells her the truth. “They are for a locator spell.” Great, one more person who knows. Xandra and I need to get out of this realm before every Cowan in it discovers magic really exists. It will be chaos.

“Ah.” That is all the woman says. Then she sits in a chair by the fireplace and places her hands in her lap with no intention of leaving.

“Your services are no longer needed, Jacqueline,” Agent Amman says rather tersely.

“I am not running around like a crazy woman and then not witness the reason for my insanity,” Jacqueline says, just as tersely. I suspect these two often have conversations like this.

Xandra gives me a questioning look. It is too late now, the woman already knows. What does it matter if she stays or not. So, I nod in acquiescence.

“Where should we do this?” Eliana asks.

“Outside is best,” Xandra says, again getting nervous about doing a spell.

“There’s a gazebo out back in the garden,” Josh says.

I nod. “That will work fine.”

Without another word, Agent Amman picks up the cloth bags and follows Eliana and Josh to the back of the house and out through a sliding glass door that leads to the garden. Xandra and I follow with Jacqueline right behind us.

I take the bags from the agent and begin arranging their contents in the gazebo. I place blue candles so they are positioned in the North, East, South and West directions. I place a gold candle next to the bowl Eliana put in the center of the gazebo. I surround the bowl with blue orris, ground corn, willow tree leaves, St. John’s wort, garlic, a pinecone from a larch tree, an Aspen leaf and pansy petals. I study the ingredients to be certain I remembered everything correctly. I understand now why Grandmother insisted I become well versed in Witch magic. She knew I would need to teach Xandra these things. Despite my aversion to most Witches I’ve met, I did very well in my studies of their magic.

Xandra reads the spell over before beginning. Eliana assists in lighting fires for the candles as needed so Xandra does not burn the gazebo down.

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