Caroline's Internship by Katherine Kim

Author:Katherine Kim [Kim, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-22T22:00:00+00:00

After they had finished cleaning him up, Caroline had given him some painkillers and a glass of water, and he was asleep even before she put the glass back on the bedside stand. Once Greg was asleep, Darien elaborated on the attack. They had been pulling a car a bit closer to the bank of a flooded stream so it would be easier to get the people out of it to the firm ground. Greg had just shoved the car to wedge it on a rock and was wading around to pull the door open and get the mother out of the passenger seat when the masked wolf crashed into him and took him down.

Darien hadn’t been able to watch the fight much, since he still had to get the family out of the car. Two small children were in the back seat and Greg could handle himself. The family was pulled safely ashore and the police arrived just as Darien was handing the baby to its grateful mother, so he went back to help his partner. The muddy creek made for a fairly significant challenge as it turned out, and before he drove the attacker off, Greg was an exhausted mess and Darien had to half carry him up the bank where he flashed his badge and explained that the situation was well above the patrolman’s pay grade, but thanks anyway for the offer of assistance. He did take the offer of a ride back to the motel though, and made a number of phone calls.

Now in the bright light of the afternoon, the sky was a clear, perfect blue and Caroline was in no mood to appreciate it. “Well it’s pretty clear that someone doesn’t want us here,” she grumbled. “Jerks.”

“I’m just glad that this is as bad as it got. Nobody died,” Darien said. He went very still for a moment before his shoulders slumped. “None of us died, anyway. The direct attack failed in that regard.”

“Yeah. Six dead in storm related incidents, and at least twenty-three in the hospital. Not to mention the property damage, washed out roads, power outages, and all the rest of it.” Greg chipped in from his spot on the bed, much better after getting ten hours of sleep.

“And the whole storm was magic related. How is that even possible?” Caroline asked. “I always thought that weather control wasn’t possible, even with magic.”

“It’s not. Not to that scale, at least. Not that we’ve ever heard of.” Darien frowned. “Minor things like a temporary wind in a small and specific location, sure. That’s why the horn worked. It called a wind that was just big enough to move the ship, but it only called it to an area right around that ship. Probably wasn’t even much bigger than the deck area.”

“Kind of like the cartoons carrying a fan to blow in the sails?” Caroline tipped her head with a grin.

“Yeah, except the Bugs Bunny physics won’t work for real people. Magic makes the whole idea actually functional.

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