Chasing Shadows (Saving Galerance, Book 1) by Reid Natalie

Author:Reid, Natalie [Reid, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-03-15T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

That morning, when Norabel went to the Amias Gift left at her doorstep, she was actually looking forward to the little bits of food she might find inside. Fletcher had cleaned out most of the food in her house, and she wouldn’t have time to go buy more before work.

Opening up the small, woven basket, she was surprised to find only one object inside. A single silver box. It looked like the kind of boxes that Snapper was usually stored inside. Taking it carefully in her hands, she lifted the lid and found a stash of blue powder inside. That was certainly not Snapper, but she had heard of other powders out there that people used for different purposes. Some were harmless enough, but most of them were bad news. Looking at the blue powder in this box, Norabel had a sinking feeling that this would prove to be trouble as well. Going back inside, she left the silver box on her kitchen table and then turned to leave for work.

Across the street, Iris was bending over her family’s Amias Gift, and promptly picked up the silver box inside. She looked at it inquisitively for a moment before pinching some of the powder between her fingers.

“Iris! Put that down!” Norabel yelled out.

Iris froze. She looked to Norabel curiously as she ran over to her.

“What is it?” Iris asked, letting the powder in her fingers fall back into the box.

“I don’t know, sweetie,” she said, gingerly taking the box from her and setting it back down in the basket. “But it’s dangerous to play with things when we don’t know what they do. Especially colored powders.”

“Iris?” her father’s voice called from inside. “Are you out here?”

A moment later, Keaton appeared at the door. When he saw that Norabel was there with his daughter, he gave her a nod.

“Norabel. Thank you for…for what you did yesterday,” he said, referencing to his encounter with Fletcher.

“I’m sorry I wasn’t able to stop him.”

He looked down to his daughter and took her hand, saying, “Go on inside. Your mother’s got breakfast ready.”

Norabel watched Iris happily skip inside, and then looked back to Keaton.

“How are you doing?” she asked. Then, glancing down at her hands, she added, “I mean, with…”

“We can manage,” Keaton answered, nodding his head. Then he sighed, admitting, “I don’t know for how long though.”

She twisted her fingers together, wondering how to word the things she was thinking, before saying, “You know. I don’t…I don’t need all the money I make. I just have to look out for myself, and I don’t need to eat as much as most people do.”

“Oh, Norabel,” he said, waving his hand. “No, we can’t…”

“You can,” she said, suddenly thrusting her purse of coins in front of him. “Either you take it now, or I’ll give it to Iris, and she might end up spending it all on candied fruit or something.”

“I…” Keaton stuttered. Slowly he raised up his palm, and she gingerly dropped it inside. “Thank you,” he said, looking her sincerely in the eyes.

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