Demeter West and the Ghost Town Glitch by Marta Ferguson

Author:Marta Ferguson [Ferguson, Marta]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eyrie Editions, Ltd.
Published: 2018-06-20T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Demeter sat quietly across from Darrin, mirroring his cross-legged posture, their knees touching. Without speaking further or making any sudden moves, she reached into her purse for the hematite she’d been carrying around lately and placed a few of the shiny black-silver stones on the cold cement floor. She gently guided Darrin’s hands to them. He didn’t resist.

“Randall?” she asked, keeping her voice low and steady, her movements slow and small. Darrin nodded again. “Randall, you asked us to find a medium. Is Darrin a medium?”

The beginnings of a smile covered Darrin’s face, though he was otherwise motionless. “Yes, though he seems inexperienced, confused. I don’t think we should speak for long.”

“That’s true,” she said, thinking it was the greatest understatement she’d ever heard. Darrin’s rigidly Catholic mother was eternally stamping out rumors that any of her relatives had ever had anything to do with divination or fortune-telling, but Casper still had the occasional old-timer who insisted she had the blood. Perhaps it was reasserting itself in her quiet middle son.

“If you’re ready to speak, I’m ready to listen,” Demeter said, blessing her decision to bring a pen and notepad with her. She could work by hand faster than she could type into her phone. She poised the pen over the notepad and waited.

Darrin, or Randall in possession of Darrin, nodded and began to speak in a voice urgent but deliberate, its timbre Darrin’s but its cadence entirely different. “I need to warn the child of my sister Lobelia’s line that she is in danger. Lobelia’s husband was killed in battle, so I’ve cared for her and her child. Years ago, a woman named Circe came to Lobelia and me, warned us to hide Lobelia and her daughter, said that they were in danger. We changed their names, changed their looks as well as we could and set them up with a shop in the next county. Circe looked and spoke like no one I’ve ever known, said she was my niece, after a fashion. She vanished, but not before she had taught us about worlds we never thought to imagine. Taught us that spirit visitations could be explained by science, an overlapping of different realities, not a crossing of past and future. This woman, Circe, has warned countless other versions of Lobelia and her children in various worlds of the danger they face. But your universe seems uniquely well sealed. Communication is difficult. Circe had not fully succeeded in breaking through to you, but she recognized that I have the gift of projection, so I have been attempting to reach you for years, months I believe, in your time. Circe says mediums are the most typical way to communicate between realities, but she says there are comparatively few in your world. Casper is a thin place, which is why Circe was able to come to my world’s Casper, and it’s why I can reach you in yours. But I’m afraid I’ve caused some injury, attempting to possess others who have come here who seem to have something of the gift.

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