The Wild Ways by Tanya Huff

Author:Tanya Huff
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Epic, Fantasy, Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780756406868
Publisher: DAW Hardcover
Published: 2011-10-31T17:00:00+00:00

“Did you charm them?” Jack whispered as Charlie closed the apartment door and locked it.

“Nope. I wore them out.” She gestured with the bulging plastic bag stuffed full of jeans and sweaters and he started down the stairs. “It’s a good thing they’re used to you slipping out for an early flight because you can’t sneak for shit. What did you do? Raid the refrigerator?”

The tips of his ears, all the skin she could actually see from three steps up, flushed pink. “Aunt Mary sent another peach pie.”

“And you wanted one last piece.” Understandable, Allie’s mother made great peach pie with a minimum of charms. Have a good day. Stay safe. A few grandchildren would be nice before I’m too old to enjoy them. Fortunately, that last one was aimed specifically at Allie. “Maybe I should go back and get . . .”

The pink darkened.

“You ate the whole pie?”

“I was hungry, and she’s not going to be sending peach pies to . . . That’s weird.” Jack paused and stared at his reflection, moving his head closer to the glass then away again.

“Your pigeon impression? Is weird?” she added when he shot her a look dripping with teenage scorn.

“No, this!” He made the move again as Charlie stopped beside him.

She rolled her eyes. “Ah yeah, the 3D thing again. Hate it.”

“I’ve never seen it do this before.” Stepping back as far as the narrow hall allowed, he made a few of the martial arts moves that seemed to be hardwired into the teenage boy genome, then charged forward. “Cool. It’s like I’m coming out of the glass.”

Charlie grinned. “The fact that you’re so easily amused will probably come in handy later.” Crossing behind him, she opened the door leading into the store—she’d parked out front, knowing they couldn’t sneak past the loft and Auntie Gwen. She stepped out into the Emporium, stopped cold, and stepped back. “Say that again.”

Jack shrugged, grabbed for his hockey bag as the strap slid off his shoulder, and said, “It’s like I’m coming out of the glass.”

“It’s like you’re coming out of the glass,” Charlie repeated. Her fiddler ran through the first few bars of “Smash the Windows” but only because “It’s About Fucking Time” had never been put to music. She pushed past Jack, back to the mirror, where fireworks were going off around her reflection. “I’m an idiot.”

“Okay.”

“Not talking to you.” Leaning forward, she exhaled against the glass and drew a charm in the condensation. “Thank you. I’m sorry I was so slow.”

“You just apologized to an inanimate object,” Jack pointed out as she turned.

“Auntie Catherine is coming in through the mirrors when she goes after the sealskins. That’s why I couldn’t find any evidence of charms; they’re all on the other side of the glass. The mirror, this mirror, has been trying to tell me that since she started, but I didn’t get it.”

“You are an idiot.”

Charlie cuffed him on the back of the head. “Come on, kid, we’re going to be heroes.

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