Potions and Commotions by Lori Woods

Author:Lori Woods [Woods, Lori]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Moonstone Press
Published: 2019-03-17T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Once ensuring that the shop was still in one piece after a few repairing spells, Lola went with Dereck towards the springs. Personally, she was looking forward to seeing Nawfar – though she was certain the mermaid would be rather bitter after spending an evening locked in a floating cage, the woman had a tendency to make her feel better whenever her stress reached its peak. There was something about her generally sassy nature that tended to put a smile on Lola’s face.

They touched down right near the pond, and Nawfar started in on them immediately. “It’s about time!” Nawfar yelped. “I thought you were coming first thing in the morning – least that’s what I heard. I’ve been waiting around on you two half the day, and here I am still just bobbling around inside a glorified bird cage!”

“Let it go, Nawfar,” Dereck said, kneeling down beside the pond, his wand held out in front of him. “You know you did it to yourself, don’t you? You didn’t have to take off like that.”

“Merfolk nature,” Nawfar said with a handwave.

“Before I let you out, I need a favor,” he said.

"Oh, perfect – now there are stipulations," she said.

“Nothing like that,” he said, laughing. “I need you to ask around about Cove for me.”

“Oh, is that all?” she asked.

“I can’t exactly dip down into the river or oceans and speak and breathe underwater,” Dereck explained. “I have plenty of witnesses to interview whom I can get in touch with a bit more easily without having to cast some underwater enchantment. I just want you to ask around to your merfolk to see if anyone saw anything suspicious. And… to find out if Cove knew any magic.”

“Magic?” Lola asked, not quite sure what Dereck was getting at.

“Magic?” Nawfar questioned as well. “Do you mean like selkie magic? Singing…”

“No, I mean something closer to what you would see a warlock doing,” Dereck said.

“That’s ridiculous,” Nawfar said.

“Just ask around for me, would you?” Dereck demanded.

“Fine, fine,” Nawfar grumbled. “I’ll ask around about Cove for you.”

Dereck, feeling satisfied, waved his wand and released Nawfar from her imprisonment. She zipped around the pond for a moment before reassuring them she would help and then diving down below the surface, probably to take some time to stretch her fin from the overnight stay. At last, Dereck and Lola mounted their brooms. “I’m headed to meet with Antioch next,” Dereck said. “See if he saw anything. Plus, with the way he was talking about merfolk last night, I can’t say that he doesn’t raise an eyebrow.”

“I’ll go with you,” Lola said, and they both kicked off. Once they were in the air, Lola asked, “Why were you wanting Nawfar to find out if Cove knew any magic? Don’t you think that’s a little silly?”

“Yeah, but Grun’s little tantrum was bothering me a bit,” he said. “Just thought I’d see what she could find out for me. Who knows – maybe that troll knew what he was talking about.

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