Death Be Raven by Katie Epstein

Author:Katie Epstein [Epstein, Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-17T04:00:00+00:00

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Patched up by Dolly and her crew who’d arrived at the scene, I’d argued with Kaleb about going to a Healer Hub. Instead, we’d compromised and I’d let him contact Mayra to come and see to me. She’d come without question with her leather bag of potions and, I quote, ‘Patch up Terra Pack’ in her hands. That being her name for it—not mine.

She’d taken me outside to heal me so as not to corrupt the crime scene with her magic, putting a spell-charged salve on beneath my bandages. Now I was seated on a tree stump as she painstakingly tried to pick glass out of my hair.

There was no one else around as we sat behind the crime scene tape that the Enforcer Bio Agents had tied around the area; not after I’d threatened a few onlookers with obstruction of justice if they hovered, anyway.

Kaleb had taken to questioning the neighbors while Bernard had stayed with Dolly to assess the clues at the scene. Bernard had also done me a solid by making sure Cole was kept busy and out of my way while I got myself sorted out. Cole wasn’t impressed that he’d received such a call and had turned up demanding what was going on. But I was grateful he’d been preoccupied with liaising with the Enforcer Bio Agents at the crime scene to bother with me as of yet.

Kaleb and Bernard had both gone on the chase, but Lauz and Raven were nowhere to be seen. Their trail had died out about half a mile from the property and so my two friends had headed back to lecture me instead. Closing my eyes to drown them out, my pretense of sleep hadn’t lasted long when Bernard had been about to carry me to a Healer Hub. My arguing with them had bided enough time for the Enforcer Bio Agents to turn up and distract them, giving me the chance to negotiate the point of Mayra coming to heal me after Dolly had stopped the bleeding. It was a compromise they were happy with.

“Sorry for asking you to come out so late,” I said to Mayra as she dropped the glass into a cardboard box beside me. The glass was to go in for evidence. So were the photos that the Enforcer Bio Agents had taken of me earlier. But now everyone had either left or headed back to the crime scene, so it was just us out here in the darkness of the coming dawn.

“There’s no need to be sorry.” Another piece of glass clunked as it hit its shiny friends. “I take it this special case of yours is escalating?”

“You could say that.”

“I know what happened in Darkwood. The others updated me but I haven’t had a chance to speak with you. Anything you want to talk about?”

“Not out here,” I told her, never knowing who was prying with the capabilities of the people who lived around this part of town.

“Give me a minute.” I heard Mayra whisper something and then a warmth filled me.

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