The Witch's Mind by Iris Kincaid

Author:Iris Kincaid [Kincaid, Iris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-22T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Lilith Hazelwood. Sam Singleton. Ted Aikens—the ghost with the safety deposit box at the hospital. Melvin Wynter, who was still trying to control the lives of his sons, even from the grave. Now, Ruby didn’t know how she ought to be feeling about death. It was not the alarming nothingness that she had feared her entire life.

On the other hand, these were some darn unhappy and unsettled spirits. They were all looking for answers or resolutions. What would happen after they found it? What would happen if they never found it? Those are questions that only the dead can answer. And that was how Ruby wound up strolling the grounds of Oyster Cove’s largest cemetery.

It was a place that she had tried to consider to be serene and restful. But her old fears had looked on the emptiness and stillness and it had always filled her with such anxiety. Now, she would no longer describe the cemetery as empty and still. It was hopping with ghosts!

And there were several visitors paying their respects, some reconciled to losses that had occurred long ago and some devastated by the crushing weight of fresh grief. Many of the spirits did their utmost to communicate, no matter how fruitless they knew it to be.

So many people and so much need. Ruby was a unique position as the only person there who could provide any kind of comfort or closure. But what an overwhelming task. She didn’t even know where to begin. But it never hurts to start with listening. Ruby wandered through the crowded cemetery, listening to complaints, regrets, unspoken messages, and heartache. But there was also satisfaction, pride, enduring bonds of love, and peaceful expectations for what lay beyond.

But then, Ruby saw a sight that stopped her cold—it was an unfamiliar face, but one that was undoubtedly a witch. There was a very distinctive look about them that Ruby was quickly starting to recognize. The witch was perusing the newly-dug arrivals as if she were in the supermarket, searching up and down the aisles, looking for the perfect loaf of bread.

“Her name is Raquel Grimm,” said Lilith, suddenly appearing beside Ruby. “We were not friends, to say the least.”

“What is she doing here?”

“Probably trying to decide whose heart to pilfer next,” Lilith said nonchalantly.

“That’s horrible.”

“Don’t be childish. I did it all the time. The dead have no need of their hearts, and a witch with a command of the dark arts can make very good use of it.”

“She’s a name that Zelda mentioned as someone who had a big grudge against you. Is that right?”

“I think there’s every reason to suspect her. She must be interrogated.”

“Do you mind if I take Delphine with me?”

Lilith scoffed. “Why not? We might as well make use of her.”

Lilith had a peculiarly exploitive way of looking at most of her relationships with others. Ruby just saw it as asking Delphine for a big favor.

*****

Of course, Delphine said yes. And she knew exactly where Raquel lived. She

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