Dancing Days by Val St. Crowe

Author:Val St. Crowe [St. Crowe, Val]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Punk Rawk Books
Published: 2013-12-17T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Over the next week or so, the three were consumed with preparations for May Day. In the mornings, they practiced the Maypole dance. Then Sawyer went off to sew dresses and was gone for the rest of the day. Maddie did more work in the dance enclave. Nora spent her afternoons working in the engineering enclave on a tracker for Catling, in case another portal happened and Catling knew about it before they did. Coeus was helping her. The committee that had been formed would be able to use the tracker as well, so Nora felt like she was doing her best to help Helicon out.

She went to visit Mack one day and spent some time with the chimeras. She asked Mack if any of the other animals seemed to sense when the portals were opening. He said he hadn’t noticed, but now that she mentioned it, they had all gotten a little excitable before each incident. None of them had struck out on their own like Catling, trying to find the portal, however. Mack said that made sense, though. He told her that Catling was always the most independent of the cat-ducks. She’d gone after Nora, hadn’t she? Catling was fearless, according to Mack.

Dionysus stayed in Helicon, in the wine and spirits enclave, and there were some muses who were there every night, drinking with him. If Dionysus knew that the muses suspected him of ripping holes in the fabric of Helicon, he certainly didn’t seem to mind. In fact, he seemed quite oblivious to anything that didn’t have to do with himself. The only time he spoke to Nora, he’d forgotten her name and didn’t seem the least bit apologetic about it.

She and Owen didn’t discuss the topic of his father again. Owen was helping Alexander with the committee, and he seemed preoccupied. He did tell Nora that he’d suggested they begin interrogating all the muses. “You know, act like real police?” he’d said. However, his idea had been shut down as too invasive and rude. “I’ve asked some of the others in the security enclave what they think, though, and they agree with me. This is serious and dangerous, and we’ve got to do what we can to find the culprit.”

Nora didn’t have the heart to tell him that a lot of people still suspected him. She especially didn’t want to say that she’d even considered it herself for a few moments. But listening to him talk, she was convinced that there was no way Owen was making the tears in Helicon. She did ask him if he thought Phoebe was behaving strangely, though. She didn’t really think that Phoebe could be responsible, but she had noticed that Phoebe seemed annoyed at the council meetings. Maybe the stress of the position was getting to her.

Owen didn’t have much to offer on that front. He hadn’t seen or talked to Phoebe recently. And, in fact, Nora didn’t see much of Phoebe either. While she was working with Coeus on the tracker one afternoon, she decided to get up her courage enough to ask Coeus about it.

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