Intermittent Casting by Rebecca Regnier

Author:Rebecca Regnier [Regnier, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Marzie

The meeting was absolutely packed. Standing Crone Only type deal.

It was late, very late. But there wasn’t a calm or weary witch in the bunch. Everyone was riled up and ready to fight.

My Aunt Dorothy and Maxine were not in attendance. I had promised them I would visit tomorrow and fill them in. At their ages, whatever their ages actually were, well, going out this late to your one-millionth DLC meeting did not seem necessary.

“You heard Ridge and most of the town. They are fed up with the shifters. And by extension, they are fed up with us!” Carrie Heisenberg was the most riled of us all. She also had a way of taking over every discussion.

“To be fair, not all the town,” Candy countered. Candy had her place at the head of the meeting; it was not that different from the town hall. Except there usually wasn’t much dissension in the ranks for our DLC meetings.

The tenor of the room was different to any DLC meeting I’d ever attended. There was a fear among the witches I’d never experienced before. Even when we were under full attack from the vampire Pedro Alvarado, we were united. We were decidedly not united now.

“The town loves us, I thought?” Pam Ulmer said, but there was a question mark at the end of the statement.

“Our support of Candy and the festivals, that’s what they owe this boom too,” Pauline added, shoring up Pam’s argument.

There was a lot of side conversation and then the doors burst open.

All of the witches save Fawn, and the OG DLC, were here. We did not need interruption just now.

“The store’s closed—” Georgianne started to say.

But it was Giles Faa. The very same one who’d recently been on the receiving end of a slam piece by Yooper Man.

“Oh, Faa, it’s you. We’re in a meeting right now, as you can see,” Candy said. Her voice was hoarse from all the talking she’d had to do today.

“Ladies,” Faa addressed the group of us. He may be a rogue, a thief, and a man whose loyalties only went as deep as his pockets, but he easily charmed most of the witches in town, including me, I had to admit.

“What are you doing here, Faa?” I asked him. We didn’t have time for his theatrics.

“I’m here to let you know which way the wind is blowing.”

“Excuse me?”

“It’s wicked, and from the west,” Maggie quipped, and the cackles ensued.

“Clever witches, always so clever. And beautiful, I might add.”

“Get to it?” I raised an eyebrow at him, and he shrugged.

“I am letting you know that Ridge and his squad of pitchfork carrying bores are coming after the Travelers, persecuting us, discriminating against us, merely because he sees us as part of the problem. As such, we’re going to travel out for a while.”

“You have every right to be on that land and I thought you were on his payroll.”

“It was a one-time deal, you know that, Ms. Marzenna.”

“Hmmph,” was my witty retort.

“I came to tell you that they’re running us out, and then the wolves, and then you.

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