Tea & Croakies by Sam Cheever

Author:Sam Cheever [Cheever, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: cThriller, humorous, amazon, onka
ISBN: 9781950331109
Google: nO2lDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B07SJFVK48
Publisher: Electric Prose Publications
Published: 2019-07-30T14:54:54.747000+00:00

I barely had time to register the fact that the Quillerans had my assist…no, my friend. I had to admit that to myself. Sebille was my friend. Though a very annoying one.

No sooner had I settled that fact in my mind than I heard the jangle of the bell downstairs. I swore softly, realizing I’d left the book shop unlocked.

“Naida? Are you up there?”

I closed my eyes with relief when I heard Lea’s voice. “Yes. Hold on. I’m coming down.”

I stood and headed toward the door, SB disappearing through the door ahead of me in a shower of brightly colored feathers.

I grimaced as bright red and blue feathers hit my carpet and wondered if the undead parrot was molting due to too many years in magical limbo.

I clutched Sebille’s silky hair in my fist and brushed at tears as I bounded down the stairs, entering the bookstore to find Lea standing stock-still in the center of the room, twisting her fingers together.

“What’s wrong?” I asked my friend, my own bad news dying on my lips at the obvious evidence of hers.

Lea stopped pacing and reached for my hands, squeezing them hard. “Where’s Sebille?”

I felt my face folding into sadness. “She’s…” I took a deep breath and forced the word past my lips. “I think the Quillerans have her.”

Tears filled Lea’s eyes. She pulled me into an unexpected hug. “Oh, Naida. I’m so sorry.”

I held up the silky strand of hair and gave Lea the brief rundown of our failed exploration of the Quilleran home and my adventure upstairs.

A vibrant rainbow flapped past overhead, feathers raining down to get stuck in my and Lea’s hair. SB landed on the uppermost shelf and twitched his wings, dancing from foot to foot. “Blast ye blackguards straight to bleep…Ye’re the devil’s bleep and I’ll see ye boiling in a pot of yer own bleepety bleep blood!”

Lea’s eyebrows lifted at the Parrot’s unconventional contribution to the conversation. “Is that parrot being magically bleeped?”

I nodded, feeling bereft and sad. “I think the previous KoA developed the spell because she got tired of hearing him curse like a sailor.”

Lea nodded. “Remind me to look into that. I have an acquaintance who deserves to be bleeped.”

I nodded. “You came here to tell me something?”

She rubbed a hand over her forehead, shoving tawny hair aside. “I intercepted a message in my scrying globe a little while ago. Someone’s trying to get hold of Sebille. I came over to tell her to check the mirror.”

My stomach twisted. “Do you know what it’s about?”

Lea sighed, holding an arm across her belly as if she were about to be sick. “I’m afraid so. It looks like Sebille and Rustin aren’t the only ones who are suffering the Quillerans’ rage. Apparently, they paid a visit to the Enchanted Forest.” Lea swallowed hard, fresh tears filling her eyes. “Naida, the Quillerans razed Toadstool City with devastation magic. It’s gone. Burned to the ground. All of it. Even Queen Sindra’s palace.”

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