Spells & Shelves (A Library Witch Mystery Book 1) by Elle Adams

Author:Elle Adams [Adams, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-25T22:00:00+00:00

The rest of the day passed quickly. Estelle and I helped customers find books in the library’s most popular areas, giving me the chance to learn the ground floor better. I tried to rein in my questions about the various locked doors and oddities scattered among the shelves, but I suspected it’d take a lifetime to unravel all the library’s secrets.

After the library closed up for the night, I returned to my room to find my newly acquired crow familiar sitting on the bed. “Oh, there you are,” I said. “I wondered where you’d gone. I haven’t told my aunts about you yet…”

Aunt Adelaide had spent the day running around dealing with the patrons’ various demands or sending Estelle or me to deal with them. Cass had pulled another disappearing act after her stint at the front desk, while Aunt Candace had made one last valiant attempt to crack open the cursed book and caused all the lights to turn off instead.

The crow fluffed his feathers. According to the familiar guidebook Alice had given me, he couldn’t actually talk to me, but we were supposed to innately understand one another.

“You want to come and meet the family?” I asked. “I’m guessing you’ve probably run—or flown—into Sylvester.”

Cass seemed to be the owl’s favourite. Then again, I’d been with Estelle most of the time, so I’d had minimal opportunities to fall through missing steps or floors.

Jet hopped onto my shoulder. “You’re sure you want to be my familiar?”

The crow made a chirping noise.

“At least you found my room,” I went on. “The library’s probably less confusing to navigate when you have wings, but I’ll give you the tour on the way down to dinner.”

To my relief, the corridor looked the way it was supposed to when I left my room with Jet perched on my shoulder. I took Jet with me to the ground floor of the library and pointed out all the areas I’d learned about today.

“And that’s the Reading Corner—"

“Who in the world are you talking to?” Cass asked from behind me.

Jet peered curiously at Cass, then flew over to her. She caught the crow on her outstretched hand. “Oh. It’s your familiar.”

“I guess he likes you,” I said, feeling inexplicably annoyed that he’d approached her so readily. Maybe he just liked people in general and hadn’t singled me out after all.

“All animals like me,” Cass said, lifting her hand to look more closely at the crow. “He’s a little small for a familiar. What skills has he demonstrated?”

“Er…” I was stumped. “He seems intelligent.”

“More than you? That’s not saying a lot.”

“Cass,” Estelle said, climbing downstairs behind me. Jet’s head snapped up at the new arrival and he flew over to her, landing on her shoulder.

“See, he likes everyone,” I said, taking the lead and going into the dining room. Aunt Adelaide was in the process of levitating plates onto the table, while Aunt Candace sat at the far end, scribbling into a notebook.

Jet took flight again and landed on Aunt Candace’s scribbling hand.

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