The Bone Card: Oona Goodlight, book six by Razevich Alexes

Author:Razevich, Alexes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Razor Street Publishing
Published: 2021-03-25T00:00:00+00:00

16

I elbowed Diego. “Ask Thomas if he knows how to tell if something is a fetch or an entity?”

“Did you hear that?” Dee said into the phone and then switched on the speaker.

“Tell Oona to touch her. If she feels like nothing, it’s a fetch. If she feels like something—call me and tell me what that something felt like and maybe we can figure out what sort of entity it is.”

The idea of touching Felicity made my stomach knot. Whatever she was, she was wrong, and I didn’t want to feel that.

“I doubt Felicity will wait patiently while we phone,” I muttered.

Thomas’s voice came out of the speaker. “I have very good hearing, Oona. You bring up an excellent point. Perhaps I should come there to be with you when the faux-Felicity returns. I don’t drive, of course. I’d call an Uber—I may be an old man living in the sticks, but I keep up with the times—but I don’t have a credit card.”

“We can arrange a ride for you,” Diego said. “Someone will be there shortly.”

“Good,” the old wizard said. “Who?”

“A driver. From Uber. The driver will know your name and where you’re going.”

Thomas said, “I’ve never ridden in an Uber. An adventure.”

“It’s just a car and a driver,” I said because I didn’t want him to be disappointed.

“I’d like it if The Gate were there with you,” Thomas said. “I’d be happy to see him again.”

He rang off without saying good-bye.

Did he want The Gate here because the two were old friends, or because he suspected Felicity might be something it would take three wizards and a psychic with a bit of spell knowledge to deal with? A shiver ran across my shoulders and I thought of Nic, who shivered when she saw the future.

“I don’t like this,” I told Diego. “It doesn’t feel right.”

Dee half-hiked a shoulder. “We’ve dealt with all sorts of monsters. Felicity won’t be anything we can’t handle.”

He punched up The Gate’s number and, when his old mentor didn’t answer, left a message asking him to come to the house immediately.

“He’s probably somewhere with my grandmother,” I said.

“Maybe they’ll both come, then,” Dee said. “The more the merrier.”

Except I never liked the idea of my gran being in harm’s way, even though I knew she was more than capable of taking care of herself. I especially didn’t like the idea of Gran being involved after Nic’s warning. Keeping my grandmother out of anything she wanted in on, though, was next to impossible.

Felicity hadn’t given a precise hour when she’d return, so we filled the time with me practicing the duo-lan containment spell. I was getting better at it and feeling more competent, if not completely adept.

Thomas still hadn’t arrived two hours later. We rang his house but there was no answer. If he had a cell phone, we didn’t know the number.

“Could the driver be lost?” I asked.

“I don’t see how. They all use GPS.”

That wasn’t as comforting as it should have been.

At five o’clock, practically on the dot, there was a knock at Diego’s door.

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