Gobbelino London & a Worry of Weres by Kim M. Watt

Author:Kim M. Watt
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780473629779
Publisher: Kim M. Watt

15

PEROXIDE FIXES EVERYTHING

Ifan watched us leave, opening the gate with some magician fanciness to let us out. None of us spoke until we were on the road outside, pulling into the broad, quietly posh streets and rumbling off in a direction that likely had weres at the end of it. Or necromancers.

Then I said, “It was his fireball.”

“What?” Callum asked, and Green Snake lifted his head out of Callum’s pocket to give me a pleased little head tilt. Or possibly a well, finally one. Nuance is tricky when your sole method of communication is a head tilt.

“It was on his fingers. I smelt it.” Green Snake stared at me, and I sighed. “Gummy Snake here must’ve picked it up when Ifan gave him a grape. So he gave me the grape, and I got the scent.”

“Are you sure?” Callum asked. He was chewing his thumbnail again, his shoulders hunched and tight. “It wasn’t just from that flame thing he does?”

I wished I could say I wasn’t sure. Ifan was a shady bloody parsnip, but Callum had already lost him once, when we’d thought he was dead (or possibly zombified, but that still counted as a loss). It seemed unfair to ask anyone to lose a friend twice. “I’m sure,” I said, and Callum sighed.

“So he doesn’t want us going to were clubs, and also wanted to make sure we couldn’t talk to necromancers.”

“You don’t think he was after us with that firebomb?”

“I don’t think it matters much either way. If he wanted us dead, we’d never have made it out of the house. So he’s just trying to stop us finding Ms Jones.”

I shivered, thinking of the taxidermied animals that lined the big entrance hall of the magician’s house, staring down at visitors with glassy eyes and bared teeth. They’d almost had us once already. “Just.”

Callum smiled faintly and took his cigarettes from his pocket. Green Snake didn’t even try to stop him. “It’s better than having a magician actively trying to kill us.”

“True. Things are looking up.”

“Positively sunny,” he agreed, and lit a cigarette. I didn’t miss the fact that his knuckles were white on the lighter.

“I’m rethinking my use of eccentric for you two,” Pru said. “What’s the next step on from that?”

“Heroic and dashing,” I suggested, and Tam snorted so hard that it turned into a sneeze.

“No,” Pru said. “Pretty sure that’s not it.”

Callum flicked ash into the cup between the seats and said, “Were club tonight, then.”

“Is that a good idea?” I asked. “What if Ifan’s warned them to be looking for us?”

“Do you have any better ideas? Yasmin won’t help us. Gerry can’t. The last signs we have of Walker are with weres. And if Ifan’s involved at all – which he seems to be – then we need to find Walker before he moves him, or … something.”

Or something. I shivered, seeing my abandoned body lying on the floor of the dentist’s hallway again. “Hairballs. Why couldn’t it be a bunny club or something?”

Callum snorted.

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