Party Ghoul by Sarina Dorie

Author:Sarina Dorie [Dorie, Sarina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amazon.com
Published: 2021-01-06T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Go Big or Go Gnome

Vega tried not to think about that mouthwatering corpse in the purse. Good Witchkin who abided by the rules and kept their jobs didn’t fantasize about sinking their teeth into rotting flesh that smelled like cherry pie.

That corpse in the purse was none of her business. When she handed over the purse and the body, she would let them know about the arsenic poisoning. It would soon be out of her hands. She couldn’t be accused of starting a scandal at her present school if she didn’t stick her nose where it didn’t belong.

As she had done in the past.

It would be one less thing her current principal would hate her for. She wanted to show the principal how much she had changed. She was most certainly not a corpse magnet.

As Vega was flying back to the front entrance of the school, she spotted holes in the wards at the statue of the Lady of the Lake. She chased off gnomes with pickaxes and constructed more wards. One of them carried a piece of white marble. Vega conjured a sphere of ice as quickly and easily as she had in high school when she’d played air pelota. She hurled it at the gnome.

He shrieked and dropped the piece of statue. Vega swooped down and picked up the piece of stone. It was a toe as large as her hand.

She circled back to the statue. The little demons had managed to crack the foot of the statue. She tried to fit the toe back into place but pressed too hard, and the rest of the toes dropped to the side.

The statue was solid marble—or it should have been. But underneath the toes was a hole the size of her finger. It looked like it opened to a dark void.

That was curious. She hoped the gnomes hadn’t damaged the statue from below. It would be at risk of falling on people if they had.

She projected a light into the void. It was cavernous below. She brought her eye to the hole, observing the stone walls. It didn’t look like what she imagined tunnels created by gnomes would look like. They appeared to have been created from stones and mortar.

A heady aroma wafted out of the hole. The scent was unlike anything she had ever smelled before, cinnamon, spice, and everything death. Even when inspecting ancient artifacts from Egypt with Kenji’s father, she had never scented a corpse like this one. It was buttery and as sweet as honey, like fresh baklava.

Her mouth watered.

She gazed up at the statue, feeling as much awe as she had the first time she’d come upon the towering woman. Could this be the tomb of Lady of the Lake? There was a grave in the forest just far enough from the cemetery to make people wonder why it wasn’t with the rest. In school, she had been taught it was the grave of Lady of the Lake, though some thought she was entombed in the crypt below the school.

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