Water Witch by Carol Goodman

Author:Carol Goodman
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781448146604
Publisher: Ebury Publishing

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

I LEFT LIZ’S office feeling relieved that I’d confessed about my membership in the Grove and about the Aelvestone, but more uneasy than ever about the threat the Grove posed to Fairwick and the consequences if they were successful in closing the door. I couldn’t imagine not having Diana living across the street. If Liz chose to leave with her, what would become of the college? I’d just begun to feel at home in Fairwick, but what kind of home would it be if my friends left? As I walked home I thought about ways of keeping the door open even if the Grove tried to close it. I mentally flipped though the spells I’d read in Wheelock yesterday. There had been spells to make someone fall in love or fall out of love, spells to make a baby or to keep from having a baby, spells to find something that had been lost or to hide something so no one would ever find it, spells to make money or cause an enemy misfortune. But nothing about keeping a door open. By the time I got home the energy I had felt before had faded. Instead I felt headachy and tired.

When I opened the front door a slip of paper that had been stuck in the doorframe came loose and drifted to the floor. It was a note from Bill. He’d fixed all the missing tiles on the roof and was going to start tomorrow on replastering the ceilings that had been damaged by the leaks. He’d also noticed that my gutters needed cleaning and had taken care of that. As I looked around the foyer I saw that he’d picked up the mail and put it neatly on the foyer table. Upstairs I discovered that he’d swept up the plaster dust that had fallen from the ceilings and mopped the floors in the hall and my bedroom. I turned on the water for the bathtub and discovered there was plenty of hot water.

While the bath was filling I sat down at my desk and picked up Wheelock. I looked through the index for door opening spells, but found only a spell to bar your door from intruders, which was called a ward, and a whole section on threshold gnomes that was fascinating (apparently their function as guardians went back to a treaty made in Prague in the fourteenth century), but not helpful in keeping the door to Faerie open. Most of the spells about doors had to do with keeping people from coming through them, not keeping them open.

While I was flipping through the book I came across a section on correlative spells. There was something I’d been trying to remember about them last night when Duncan was explaining how to shape shift. I reread the section carefully.

“The most powerful – and dangerous – form of correlative magic is when a witch creates a bond between herself and the object or person she wishes to control1 …”

The sound of lapping water interrupted my reading.

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