The Sadie Salt Omnibus by Ware Wilkins

Author:Ware Wilkins [Wilkins, Ware]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Now and Wren Publishing
Published: 2018-12-01T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

My old room is how I left it. There’s something sweet about that. Uncle Oliver has never come across as a particularly sentimental person. As soon as I left his home, I’d expected him to get rid of all my things and turn the space into another storage room for all his creepy magic artifacts.

Instead, my bed is still shoved in the corner. The dip in the center, built from years of curling my teenaged body in, is visible under the quilt that the woman who raised me had sewn. Mom. She was my mom, even if she took me away from my biological mother. It’s navy, with star patches sewn in an unorganized way across. When I sink into the sheets, the smell of dust and old incense surrounds me.

Ingrid used to come over and, in our effort to forget about the deaths of family members, we’d light stick after stick of incense in the room. She’d try to develop and channel her psychic powers enough that she could contact the spirit of her mom or my parents. Really, I knew she just wanted to impress her father.

But we never contacted anyone, and instead the white ceiling has a few smoke-darkened spots from all the burned sticks. The fragrance lingers, but without any pungent sweetness. It just smells like memories.

Lying down, I strain to listen. Not that I care what they’re saying. But as the thought stabs through me, a second admonition follows. I’m being a giant baby. Unwilling to follow through on any real introspection while still hurting, I sit back up and open the bag that Ms. Nickles gave me.

Oh man.

It’s like Mary Poppins’s bag. Inside it are teeth. We’re talking more teeth than I ever gave to Tee, the tooth fairy. All shapes and sizes, too. The power wafting from the open top is exhilarating. The hum of anticipation begins in my own bones, seeking the power contained in the bag. There are some of her books, also. When I pull one out and thumb through its thick, yellowed pages, I see it’s a spell book. Most of the spells I know as I read them, my memory sorting and naming the magic that Tee tucked into my brain as a part of the deal I struck with her all that time ago.

It’s nice to have, though.

This is, I’m sure of it, a lifetime supply of teeth for me. Even with practice and being able to slow the release of my life force, I’d be out of skin before consuming even half of what’s contained in the bag. This is a princely gift, but I know it comes with a debt. Save her sister.

Except, without her here to answer more about the bone coven, how exactly am I supposed to do that?

There are raised voices. Sighing, I know I need to get over myself right now and go face the music. I don’t think they’re right to be so mad at me, to so easily forget all the things I do for them, but I do get that I lied.

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