The Big Day Brew-HaHa by Cat Larson

Author:Cat Larson [Larson, Cat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cat Larson

Chapter Six

“It’ll be fine.”

I glared at my sister. Easy for her to say. She wasn’t going to be the one facing down a six-foot stinger.

“You have your protective herbs with a blessing thrown in, remember?”

“Yes, I remember, but I don’t think my pounding heart does. Or my sweaty palms. Or my—”

“Samm.” She grasped hold of my arms, stopping me. “Do you want to swap places?”

Yes. No. I didn’t want either of us to do this. I shook my head. “We already decided. Let’s just stick to the plan.”

In case there were any issues restraining Scorpion Man, or our witchy sense told us it’d be unsafe to do so, it made more sense for me to divert his attention somehow while Violet found a way to get through to Trixie. She had a greater rapport with the woman. We would listen to any advice Kieran had to give, but in the end, it was up to our own intuition to see us through, since he was too wimpy to tag along.

And who knows? I might be freaking out for nothing. I didn’t know for sure that this thing had a gigantic stinger; it could be stunted.

“Anything yet?” Kieran asked.

“No.”

We were headed in the direction of Trixie’s pink house. Despite my considerable reservations about traipsing around her neighborhood at night, it seemed the most logical place to start. Kieran recalled placing the pelt somewhere in the area, right before Clarisse’s hellish snake eyes did him in, but unfortunately, that was about all he did remember. A fat lot of help that was. Hopefully, Peter hadn’t eaten it, mistaking it for a rebellious rug.

“Anything yet?”

“No.”

Violet held the hairy soap in front of her like a homing device, letting it navigate us wherever it wanted to go while we followed blindly behind.

“How about now?”

“No. Stop asking.”

Geez. He was worse than a child in the back seat. If we weren’t doing this for Amelia’s sake, I would’ve just left him stuck to his banshee suction cup for all eternity. It would’ve served him right.

“Are you sure you can’t call to mind anything about a half man, half scorpion from your witch studies?”

“I already told you no. Don’t start acting like the kelpie.”

That was the last thing I wanted—well, maybe not the last—but I was only hoping for as much information as possible. I didn’t remember seeing anything in Mr. Jones’s journal about the creature either.

“Don’t worry,” she said. “You’ll be—” She stopped abruptly, and I slammed into her. “We need to go that way.” She pointed in the opposite direction of Trixie’s house.

“No, that can’t be right,” Kieran said.

“Well, it is. Are you doubting my charms?”

“That way will lead us downtown. Since I had always avoided that area, I could not have misplaced it there.”

“Too bad. That’s the way we’re going,” Violet said. “And who misplaces a seal pelt? I still don’t get it. It’s not like losing your keys.”

And Violet would know. She hid spare keys all over the place, so she must lose them a lot.

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