Dark Divide: A Cormac and Amelia Story by Carrie Vaughn

Author:Carrie Vaughn [Vaughn, Carrie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carrie Vaughn, LLC
Published: 2019-10-09T18:30:00+00:00

The next morning Cormac called the hospital and a couple of local clinics to find out if there’d been any illnesses related to starvation or malnourishment. Since he wasn’t asking about specific patients—he didn’t bring up Weber’s death—he hoped officials could tell him about broad trends. But no, the couple of administrators he managed to get on the line didn’t think such a thing was possible. Eating disorders didn’t generally come in waves, like he was suggesting. He couldn’t get them to understand that he wasn’t talking about eating disorders—this was something else. But didn’t that generally happen, trying to talk about the supernatural? It didn’t fit in the regular categories, so people didn’t know what to think. They didn’t have a paradigm to follow, and so what he described didn’t—couldn’t—exist.

I have heard of starvation magic being used in battle, Amelia offered. A siege tactic, to hasten the suffering within a holding under attack. But spells of that type are usually directed at the food and water supplies—foul the wells, rot the food, the people will starve as a result. That isn’t what happened here.

So much magic worked slantwise—not directly at a thing, but near it. Sympathetic relations. That Weber just starved, within reach of food, for no medically obvious reason, was throwing them off.

Their next stop was back to Weber’s cabin, to place Amelia’s warning system. In the parking lot on the way to the Jeep, Cormac slowed, listened. Trina was standing outside the office, talking loudly on her phone. Her back was to him; he stayed hidden by the wall of the office.

“. . .yeah, right. I don’t know why he’s here, he’s asking a lot of questions. . . . Of course I’m keeping an eye on him! Well I don’t know. I asked Mag at the diner and she said she talked to Mary over at the park, and Mary says Annie Domingo hired him for something. You think it has something to do with Arty? Between this guy asking questions and the Hollywood people it’s like someone rigged this whole thing up as a publicity stunt. . .right? And it wouldn’t even bother me that much except, you know, what actually happened? It’s some sick joke, I’m telling you. Do I think this guy has something to do with it? Well, I don’t know. . . . Yeah, he’s cute—”

Cormac sidled away without a word, however fun it might be to tap her on the shoulder and watch her squirm. The Jeep was waiting at the other end of the parking lot.

Well, you are.

“What?”

Never mind.

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