Magick Noir by Edward Teach

Author:Edward Teach [Teach, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-09T18:30:00+00:00

11

Fiona was shocked that her feet hadn’t yet worn a path through the floor. The ache in her left ankle and the flipped up edge of an earth-toned rug were the only evidence that she had been at it for what felt like a solid hour, but was more than likely less than half that. She glanced at the clock hanging above the register for confirmation, and sighed at her overreaction as she walked to the shelves. She knew where everything lay, no matter how times Erin mixed up the inventory.

Her slender hands closed over a bronze vessel, which she placed with care on the central table, where most of such work was done. The same one she’d sat around earlier with the other members of her coven before the news had come. Another one, and for it to be Laura. She didn’t know the girl well, but she had ambled into the shop before with Becks, asking questions about every book on the shelf. This was too close to home. Much too close.

The vase she grasped next was clear, patterned with crystals along the bottom edge. She poured the water from there into the vessel, nearly to the brim. The bronze, with the water rippling, looked like liquid gold in the low light. She put the vessel down and leaned in close, pursed her lips, and gently blew out one cold breath across the surface. Straightening her spine, she held her hand palm down over the water, as close to the surface as she could get without dipping the pads of her fingers in. She held her breath, the silence seeming like something huge and growing. A living thing. She breathed out, counted the seconds stretching forward in front of her. As it always did, just when she started to think it wasn’t coming, that the effort she’d put forth was yielding nothing, the surface of the water rippled again. The tiny waves moving outward from the middle.

She nodded, satisfied for the moment, and stepped back to wait.

Her eyes were settling on the counter intermittently, in anticipation. It wasn’t long after the second set of ripples that the phone rang. She walked around the counter, pulled the phone from where it hung on the receiver, and ran one hand over the curling cord. “I have to see him.”

The phone slotted back into place. Fiona stepped away from the counter, and went to find her coat.

The night was cold around her shoulders. The chill was worse than it should have been this early in fall, biting at the skin of her neck as she locked up the store behind her and headed up the steps into the street. The driver of the waiting motorcycle looked bulky, broad through the shoulders, even without accounting for the thick jacket that covered his torso. A Marauder. She didn’t know their names, thought of them as an entity of sorts, a hive-mind. It made things less complicated.

She crossed in front of the bike, and met his eyes for long enough to know that they were the darkest brown she’d ever seen.

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