Grounded for All Eternity by Darcy Marks

Author:Darcy Marks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: 2022-07-26T00:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-FOUR

The point of Sean’s dagger forced my chin up, which coincidentally gave me a perfect view of Charity’s glowing hands. Huh, Charity was a magic user. Which made a lot of sense now that I thought about it. The things I should have found in the Witch House were in Sean’s and Charity’s houses instead.

A sharp pinch underneath my chin reminded me that I still hadn’t answered Sean’s question. Charity’s magic was making the room smell like ozone.

Lilith had already shifted her weight like she was going to pounce. I knew if we still had our wings, hers would have been arched high over her head. In fact, I could almost see the shadow they would cast. Crowley was desperately trying to kick-start his magic, if the sparks around his palms were any indication.

My friends’ eyes were just about to glow, and I didn’t think that was going to help matters.

“Wait, wait!” I said. “When I said we weren’t locals, I didn’t just mean from Salem.”

“Yeah, me neither,” said Sean. “But that’s not what I asked you. What are you?”

Lilith bit her lip in that way I always liked. Not the time, brain, not the time. Crowley laughed wickedly. But despite their reactions, they stayed at the ready, and my heart warmed. If things went bad, I knew I could count on them, wings and magic or not.

“We’re from a different dimension,” I said slowly.

“Okay…,” Sean said. The dagger didn’t move, but he did turn his head to look at Charity. Her hands stopped glowing, and she shrugged.

“The amulet could react to something like that,” Charity said, picking up a brightly glowing talisman that had fallen out of the box. “It’s really keyed to ‘other’ more than anything else. That normally means vampire, werewolf, and all that jazz, but I suppose if someone was from another dimension, that would be ‘other’ enough to trigger it to glow too.”

Sean didn’t look completely convinced. His eyes narrowed as they swept my face. Please, eyes, stay boring.

“You’re not monsters?” he asked.

“Define ‘monsters,’ ” I said, bristling at the implication, but Sean pressed the dagger a little harder. “No, definitely not.”

“Why are you here?” Sean continued. He lowered the dagger, but he didn’t put it away.

“We’re on vacation?” I said, which was technically true.

“You decided on a vacation to Earth?” asked Charity. “Do they make brochures? What do they say about us?”

“It was kind of an accident,” said Lilith. “We didn’t actually choose Earth.”

“Then why don’t you go home?” snapped Sean. “Why get involved in all this Parris nonsense, if this isn’t even your dimension?”

My feelings probably shouldn’t have been as hurt as they were.

“Parris is causing problems here,” I said, before smirking and throwing back Sean’s own words: “Helping is kinda what we do.”

He didn’t smile, but his face smoothed out a little, and he hadn’t stabbed me yet, so yay for charm!

“Besides, the opening isn’t there anymore,” Crowley said.

I didn’t face-palm, but it was a close thing.

“Which really has very little to do with anything,” I said, with a glare at Crowley.

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