Twilight Magic by Jennifer Willis

Author:Jennifer Willis [Willis, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-24T22:00:00+00:00

9

Maksim was gone. So was Vesha. Or Utra. It didn’t really matter anymore.

Sally had been grateful for the glasses of lemonade Thor’s neighbor Carol kept forcing into her hands. Despite the cold, she and the others sat on the front porch and tried to get their wits about them and the ringing out of their ears. They’d been hit by flashbangs—Sally, Thor, the lady from Child Protective Services, everybody—and the house was crawling with cops. At least no one was seriously injured.

The officers who’d accompanied Elisa Jackson from CPS swore they’d done nothing wrong and tried pointing fingers at Thor and his kin, but the canisters found on the scene were police-issue. Perhaps sensing a pending lawsuit, the new officers called in to investigate weren’t pressing too hard on Sally and Thor and the others.

In the few years since her disastrous introduction to Odin’s Lodge, she’d gotten used to being inconvenienced by mythological beasties and gods gone rogue. Dealing with other human beings was outside of her wheelhouse. It was something of a miracle that she’d never had to fully explain herself to a police officer before. There’d always been an easy excuse or a plausible-enough alternate explanation. Regular people, in Sally’s experience, were all too eager to accept flawed but mundane logic over a paranormal truth.

Sally wasn’t sure how Maksim’s kidnappers would have gotten their hands on police munitions, but they’d taken advantage of the ensuing confusion and disorientation to make off with the boy and the Zorya goddess—but of course no one mentioned this to the cops.

The only bright spot was that Bonnie and Magnus had been safe at Carol’s house next-door. Thor had practically broken down in tears when he learned that his neighbor had intercepted them on their way home. Magnus was still there, watching cartoons and drinking hot cider.

When Heimdall and Thor made the collective announcement that they were making this fiasco their problem to solve, there were no complaints. Sally felt relieved. She wasn’t looking forward to taking on yet another magickal crisis, but this one had landed literally at Thor’s doorstep. It wasn’t so much a decision to get involved as it was resignation that they had to act.

Saga, Bonnie, and Freya headed to the Lodge to make preparations. Thor’s house was no longer secure, and the Lodge would once again become the family’s stronghold. Even the Norns would be arriving soon from Seattle. Not that anyone asked her, but Carol volunteered to remain behind in the SE Portland neighborhood to “hold down the fort.” She also said she’d see them “on the other side,” and no one seemed to know what she was talking about. But Magnus would be safe with her, and Sally was relieved that he’d get to sit on the sidelines this time.

More snow started falling as Sally and Opal rode in the front of Heimdall’s truck on their way to the Balkian Brothers warehouse. Thor followed in his truck. It was the obvious first place to go looking for answers, and there weren’t any other leads to follow.

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