Night and Fae (Bureau of Whispers Book 1) by S.W. Clarke

Author:S.W. Clarke [Clarke, S.W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-08-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Fifteen

Fauna. Fauna Frostwind was to accompany me to the Biscuit Barn to meet with the vampire liaison—or whomever they might send. Once Della had decided on that course, she’d been intractable. It was either Fauna accompanied me, or I wouldn’t go at all. The bureau had no other agents to spare, given Edinburgh’s impending lockdown. And she refused to send me alone.

Apparently Mina couldn’t be spared, only Fauna. Mina’s knowledge of warding made her crucial to the warding mission.

“Why?” I said, the length of the conference room I’d dragged Mina into. It was just her, me, a long table, and nine empty chairs. Mina occupied the tenth. “Fauna’s a desk jockey. She doesn’t work in the field.”

The conference rooms were supposed to be confidential. No Whisperers were present, but it was possible the bureau had a listening device in here—probable, even—but a fae talking shit about her coworker wasn’t exactly something their IT department was likely to care about. Especially not after the leyline incident.

“She’s been on a few missions,” Mina said, as patient as one could be having been dragged away from their desk. “Two that I know of, at least. Neither of which failed.”

“Which missions? The Manila Operation and the Nespresso Expedition?”

Mina half-smiled. “I get it. Nobody wants a babysitter.”

I spun on her, feeling petty as hell. “You called her a backup.”

She made a semi-embarrassed face. “Did I say that? Anyway, I don’t deal with vampires, Eva. Not like you. You should consider this a compliment.”

“And why’s that?”

“Amidst everything, Della’s taking this seriously enough to send a team. She wants to protect you.”

Fair. Though I wouldn’t admit it. “We’re not a team. You can’t be on a team with Fauna. It’s impossible.”

Her head tilted, pink curls shifting. “How about an uneasy truce?”

I gestured toward the back of Fauna’s blue head, visible from where we both sat; she’d returned to her desk and was bobbing away on a yoga ball that she’d at some point replaced her desk chair with. “Should I wait until after she stops bobbing, or during?”

We both took a moment to observe Fauna swaying on her yoga ball.

“She has to use her wings to maintain her balance,” Mina said, sounding sad.

There was nothing else really to say about that. Mina had said it all.

She turned back to me. “What’s this mission, anyway?”

I’d only told Mina about this in the broadest strokes. I leaned forward, hands on the back of a chair. “It’s a lead on Noctis. But I think it’s a lot more than that. By the way, can’t wait for our next pub night.” That was code for, Let’s talk about this more over at the pub, when we can be sure no one’s listening.

Mina got the message. “And what will Fauna’s role be?”

“Well—”

A knock came on the glass door, and we both stilled. It was unspoken office protocol that you didn’t interrupt your coworkers while they were in a conference room.

Mina turned, and my eyes lifted.

Fauna stood on the other side, a manila envelope in her grip.

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