Magic to the Bone by Annie Bellet

Author:Annie Bellet
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2016-03-18T19:00:00+00:00

Deep winter in Wylde was never a crazy busy time. The students at Juniper College were gone, and most people were at the ski places or staying in more hunting-friendly counties for the holidays. By the time we escaped the woods, slowed down by me being on foot, and went to where Levi had hidden his Jeep, it was later than I liked. Moonrise would come just near sunset, and this deep in winter sunset came damned early. We drove into town, ready for anything.

Quiet greeted us. Eerie emptiness. I wasn’t sure what day it was, but everything looked nearly deserted. The courthouse had no cars in front of it, not even one of the deputy or sheriff’s vehicles. The road had been plowed since the last snowfall, but no one was driving. The lights were on at the gas station and I thought I saw someone moving inside the small convenience store attached, but nobody was filling up.

“Where to?” Levi asked me, his dark eyes flicking to mine in the rearview mirror.

“Vivian’s,” I said. Nobody was trying to stop us from driving through town, so I figured we might as well start with the vet. She would know what was happening, if anything was.

I failed my will save and ended up staring as we drove past my burned out comic store. Pwned looked even more dead and forlorn after a few weeks of snow fall. The snow couldn’t entirely cover the blackened beams and caved-in walls. The building looked like a monster that had been slain, robbed for parts, and left to rot. Alek’s arm tightened around my shoulders as we drove by. Someone had put up caution tape and a plastic fence, but the snow had nearly covered it, rendering it useless. No repairs had been started on the partially burned buildings to either side. Their windows were dark, closed signs prominent.

Wylde, Idaho had become a ghost town in the short time I’d been gone.

“Where are the cops? Why isn’t anyone repairing things? Why isn’t anyone even out on the road?” I wondered aloud.

“Everyone is terrified because of the murders. We were getting press, there were talks of the FBI getting involved, and then it just stopped. Nobody is covering it anymore. It’s like Area 51 or something.” Harper peered out the window, her breath fogging the glass as she spoke.

Remembering what Detective Wise and Agent Salazar had said about not wanting to be involved in sorcerer stuff, plus knowing that our own government had hired Samir to build them a magical prison, I had a feeling it was more like the government had shut down all word getting out and decided to let Wylde and her supernatural beings handle their own mess. Easier to let a bunch of nonhumans disappear or die than explain to the world that hey, by the way, magic is real and there’s a lot of people who can turn into giant scary animals.

Nothing sent the message that we were truly on our own with Samir louder and clearer than the dead silence of the empty town.

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