Star of the Party by Cate Lawley

Author:Cate Lawley [Lawley, Cate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cate Lawley

8

Tick Tock, or Projectile Vomiting Foreshadowed

CeeCee's eyes widened. “It wasn’t me.”

“Me either.” Bernard lifted his hands in surrender.

It took me a second to scan the room for any signs of magic, but again I came up empty. “I know. It’s the flipping ghost. He won’t stop hassling me.”

“Humph. No way,” Annalise said. “Margery would have chased the pest away with a cleansing if there were one. And what ghost moves in with a witch? They’d be asking to get bounced out.”

“And yet…” I gestured to the sangria that Bernard was now mopping up with a tea towel.

“Telekinesis.” Annalise eyed Bernard suspiciously. “It was you, wasn’t it?”

Bernard shot her an incredulous look. “Please. I’m a spell guy. Did you hear me muttering any incantations?” He didn’t wait for a response, just continued to sop up the mess.

Because he was right: we’d have heard him. That was one of the rules of witch magic. To use a spell, you have to speak it aloud.

Potions had to come in contact with their target—touch, ingestion, inhalation—and spells had to be spoken. There wasn’t any getting around that.

Annalise turned to CeeCee, who pointed to her potion. “I’m all about brewing. No telekinesis here.” CeeCee looked at me. “Why in the world would Margery not get rid of it? Even if it likes the house enough to return and get bounced out again, she could have done a cleansing right before the party.”

Bernard shook out the tea towel in the trash can, the shards of glass tinkling as they fell. He gave the sangria-soaked towel a disgusted look and then chucked it in as well. “Anyone consider that Margery’s house is an especially odd choice?” He looked at me expectantly—but I didn’t know and shook my head. He said, “All Hallows’ Eve, the one night of the year that a ghost can become fully corporeal.”

“Ugh, I forgot about the location component.” Yet more evidence that my studies were sadly neglected. “A ghost can only become fully corporeal at very specific locations on All Hallows’ Eve, and ours is still flitting between the planes.”

Bernard pointed a sticky finger at me. “Exactly. What are the locations again?”

“If you two would study more…” CeeCee huffed. “Place of death, home of a loved one, and any physical space with a significant, emotionally charged connection to the ghost. But you’re right, Bernard, why specifically the home of a witch? He or she has to know a witch would bounce them out with a cleansing.”

“I’ll have to ask Margery.” Because I had a strong hunch that Margery knew more than she’d said about her unwelcome visitor. I’d bet that she might even know the identity of her resident ghost.

“Good luck with that.” Bernard raised his eyebrows at me.

He didn’t offer to accompany me. Shocker.

Annalise let out a put-upon sigh. “Should I go with you? It’s not like he’s any kind of backup.” She gave Ben a baleful look.

I was a little touched. Annalise was no more a match for Margery than I was.

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