Heavy Meddle Magic (The Owl Star Witch Mysteries Book 4) by Leanne Leeds

Author:Leanne Leeds [Leeds, Leanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Badchen Publishing
Published: 2021-10-27T16:00:00+00:00

I was impressed my mother ceded leading the discussion (if not her place at the head of the circle) long enough for us to make some progress with Captain Harmon.

“Maybe I should have thought more before I went to the jewelry store,” Harmon began, his shoulders tight as he sat on the floor. “But I knew Cassandra was important to Lil, and I wanted to get the ring from the official Cassandran jeweler to show her that I respected her beliefs, her—”

“I’m sorry to interrupt so soon after you started, Captain, but did you get the ring at Aurora Vibrations?” Jason asked, referencing the only fine jewelry shop in Cassandra.

“I did, son; why?”

Immediately, Jason tensed up slightly. “As much as I respect your relationship with my mother, Mr. Harmon, I’d appreciate it if you didn’t call me son.”

“Of course,” Harmon said. “Sorry about that. I meant no offense,” he added, sympathetic to Jason’s obvious discomfort.

“No offense taken. I’d just prefer not to be called that.”

Harmon nodded. “As I said, I was getting the ring from the official Cassandran jeweler, but I decided to buy another trinket for her at Aurora Vibrations. It just hit me, you know? That I should get her something else. I decided to go for a small silver pendant with a small dolomite stone.” He smiled. “Lil loves pink. It was a three-dimensional hexagon. It seemed perfect.”

My mother frowned. “Hexagons are as close to magic as science gets.”

Harmon looked at her. “What do you mean?”

“If you spin a bucket of water fast enough? It turns into a hexagon. Science has never been able to explain why. Well,” she smiled. “At least not yet. In California, there’s the Devils Postpile—basalt columns left by a lava flow, all hexagonal in shape. Then, of course, there’s a bee’s honeycomb. What most people aren’t aware of?” My mother sighed almost lovingly. “The hexagon is encoded into their very eyes.”

Captain Harmon stared at her like she was off her rocker.

Emma cleared her throat. “You know, I knew all that—but somehow, when you say it, it seems super spooky and weird and significant,” she told my mother.

Mom smiled. “It is believed that bees use hexagons because the hexagons tessellate.” We must have all looked confused. “Hexagons can be repeated again and over again without creating gaps or overlapping. Understand?”

We all nodded, even though I’m sure at least half of us had absolutely no clue what the crazy hippie woman was getting at.

“Consequently, it is the most effective method of packing a space with the least possible quantity of material holding it,” my mother told Emma. “Triangles and squares tessellate; circles and pentagons do not. Hexagons, which are themselves composed of tessellated triangles, do.”

Uh-huh.

I nodded again.

I still had no idea what the crazy hippie lady was getting at.

“I don’t see what this has to do with the necklace I bought,” Harmon pointed out.

I was glad he said it.

“Bees don’t create hexagons,” my mother told him.

“But you just said—”

“I know what I said,” she smiled at him.

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