Sound's Familiar by Dana Marie Bell

Author:Dana Marie Bell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: shifter, wolf, familiar, magic
Publisher: Dana Marie Bell
Published: 2019-09-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Jonah took a huge bite out of his burger and moaned. “Jesus, that’s good.”

“Mm.” Paul swallowed his own bite and turned to stare at the crowds in the mall. They’d chosen this restaurant because they could meet up with the women once they were done shopping. The girls had told them they’d grab a bite to eat in the food court, not wanting to waste much time on food when there was money to be spent and clothing to be tried on.

Jonah smiled. Carol had been so excited on the way to the mall she’d been bouncing in her seat. She’d run up to Debbie the moment she caught sight of her, chattering away a mile a minute. If he didn’t know better, he’d think her a chipmunk instead of a wolf. “Carol was looking forward to this all day.”

“So was Debbie.” Paul put his burger down. “By the way, do me a favor and write your complaints about my secretary down so I can fire her ass and not get sued for it, okay?”

“Huh?” Jonah shook his head, amused. “Is that what Carol was talking to you about?”

“Yup.” Paul took a bite of his burger. “Om, beh da muay—”

“Hold it right there.” Jonah shuddered in disgust. “Eat, then speak, you ass.”

Paul swallowed. “Yeah, whatever. Listen, the magical signature we found in those runes. I can’t get it out of my head. I get the feeling there’s something significant to it, more than what we originally thought.”

“Oh?” Jonah pulled out his tablet, scrolling through images until he came to the one with the signature. “What about it caught your attention?”

Paul wiped his hands before handing over his own tablet. “Take a look at the enhanced picture.”

Jonah stared at the runes. They’d been magically enhanced and enlarged. “There’s runes within the runes, not just the signature Carol thought she saw.” He blinked, the image dancing before his eyes. The way it had been done was dizzying, but if he focused, he could ignore the sensation of being off-balance enough to understand what it was he was examining.

“Yeah. Whoever did this is a master, Jonah. I’m going to be checking Reeves’s body for the same thing just in case we missed them.”

“Meaning Carol could be wrong about the Eat at Joe’s thing.” Jonah sat back, thinking hard. He munched on a french fry while his mind raced. “Like I said, I’m not a rune expert, but this is significant. It seems that the runes are different from the ones used to hide them.”

“Using non-magical language to hide magical language,” Paul concluded. “I’m having my expert double-check Ms. Miller’s photos as well. It’s possible there’s more than one hidden message that we’ve missed.”

“Check for Egyptian magic specifically.” Jonah sat forward and picked his burger up again. “Since we’re dealing with Apep, it’s likely we’ll find Egyptian hieroglyphs or hieratic script.”

“Good point. If we do, I’ll send them to your Egyptologist contact and get them interpreted.” Paul glanced out the window again. “We might need to sit down with her and ask some questions.

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