The Librarian and The Dark Angel: Supernatural Suspense, Urban Fantasy, Horror Comedy (Strangely Scary Funny Book 8) by Brian Yansky

Author:Brian Yansky [Yansky, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

Olive came into the café to tell Lucy something, and I got up and told Rip I’d see him later.

“What about your pie?”

“You eat it. Have Lucy put it on my tab.”

I called to Olive as she went out the door. She turned, not looking particularly happy to see me.

“Can we talk?” I said.

“I’m kind of in a hurry.”

“It will just take a few minutes.”

“Fine,” she said.

“Let’s go over to the Garden of Eden,” I said.

Olive and I sat in the park on the bench close to the tree that might or might not be the tree where it all had begun, the original sin that led to all the others. Today it had no apples. Some days it did, and some it didn’t. Like so many things in Eden, it was unpredictable. Olive pulled an apple out of the pocket of her dress. She took a bite.

“Hmmmm,” she said. “Have a bite.”

“That’s funny.”

“I’m not kidding. It really is good.”

I hesitated, and she started laughing. She took another bite. “Just messing with you.”

“Like I said. Funny.”

“I’m going to take my father to my mother.”

“I know.”

“I’ve got a finding spell. I’ll find where she is.”

“I’ve got a feeling she won’t hide from you.”

“The mountain stream we call Mountain Stream told me the spell.”

“I’ve always admired the creativity of naming up here.”

“You’d rather call it Steve?”

“No.”

“I’m just saying. Calling a thing what it is, that’s not such a bad way to go.”

“Anyway,” I said.

“Anyway, if you use mountain stream water, which has magical properties, and you add some special ingredients. Well, not all of them are special. Salt and pepper, for instance.”

“Eye of newt?” I said.

“I don’t even know what a newt is. But you need an eye. Very perceptive of you. An eye to see.”

“Sounds right.”

“Exactly. Add to it something of the person you want to find, something personal. I have a necklace of my mother’s.”

“You’ve found her already, haven’t you?”

“I have,” she said. “I know exactly where she’ll be at sunset and I intend to be there.”

“In the haunted woods?”

“Where else?”

“I’d like to go along,” I said.

“I hoped you might say that.”

She took another bite of her apple. That apple did look good. Juicy.

“There’s something else,” she said.

“What’s that?”

“I did a finding spell for the poisoner of Fluffy.”

“You found her?”

“I did. She will be in the same exact place as my mother.”

“Because she is your mother?” I said.

“I’m going to need your word of honor that you won’t harm her or you can’t come with us.”

“You told your father who she was?”

“Not exactly,” she said.

“Does not exactly mean what I think it means?”

“Do you think it means not at all?”

“Why not tell him?” I said.

“It’s a surprise. Will you promise not to get yourself killed trying to avenge Fluffy? He wasn’t killed. He wasn’t even damaged.”

“No thanks to her,” I said.

“Still. She’s my mother.”

“All right,” I said, “but you’re going to have to promise me something. You’re going to have to promise me this is the last time you bring your father back from the dead.

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