You're Kitten: A Paranormal Cozy Mystery (Midlife Magic & Mystery Book 8) by Corrine Winters

Author:Corrine Winters [Winters, Corrine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-05-12T16:00:00+00:00

Eighteen

Ruby chanted the words of power as she drew on the ley line pulsing over Allie’s house. Her voice rose to a crescendo as she shaped the spell.

“What’s she doing?” Allie asked Rumpus.

“Painting the target,” Rumpus answered. “As soon as she finishes that spell, our little Trog demon is going to light up like a roman candle. Easy to spot, even in the rain.”

Ruby finished the spell and clasped her hands together with a flourish. Suddenly the night lit up with an outline of a humanoid, its arms so long they dangled almost to the ground. Its spiky fin marked it as some abomination between sea life and a man’s form.

“It’s not even a very big one,” Rumpus scoffed. “This is going to be a snap.”

Another trog lit up in the rain.

“Oh, so two of ‘em? Still nothing to sweat.”

Another trog lit up. Then another. And another still.

Rumpus started to speak, but Allie glared at him.

“Don’t say it! Stop making things worse.”

“Why aren’t they attacking?” Rufus asked.

“There must be more than a hundred of them…oh crud.” Ruby felt the stirrings of magic from the trogs. “They’re trying to summon their god again.”

“Again?” Allie shouted. “I thought it was dead.”

“Gods can’t really die, not in our realm.”

“Well, that’s a fine how you do,” Allie griped.

“First things first,” Ruby said. “We need to protect your parents. Let’s do a level five barrier spell around the trailer.”

“Level five? I’ve never done more than a level three on my own.”

“I’ll be here to help you.”

The trog’s deep throated, burbling chant started up, the sound almost deafening. Lightning flashed across the sky, and Ruby spotted the beginning of a portal forming a mile above.

“We need to hurry. Give me your hand, Allie.”

They joined hands and started chanting the spell together. No sooner than they started the chant, a dozen of the troglodytes stopped chanting and dragged their misshapen forms toward the car.

“Keep chanting, I’ve got this,” Rumpus said.

The cat pressed the button on his door, lowering the window. Then he leaped out into the rain. As the familiar of a water witch, Rumpus didn’t fear getting wet. He just got really, really annoyed by it.

Not today, though. He charged for one of the trogs, orange body bouncing across the lawn. Then he launched himself into the air. Ruby felt the stirrings of magic and knew Rumpus had enacted his familiar Talent of gravity manipulation. A fifteen-pound cat left the ground. When Rumpus crashed into the trog’s chest, he weighed as much as a semi-truck.

The trog flew backward, Rumpus spinning several somersaults in the air and landing on all four feet. A trog slashed at him with deadly claws. Rumpus dodged aside, then leaped into the air and swatted the trog in the face. It went down in a crumpled heap like a superhero had punched it.

“I’ll help, too!”

Rufus jumped out into the rain. Ruby almost stopped chanting but knew that to do so would release the spells’ energy in a dangerous, uncontrolled manner. There was nothing she could do but keep chanting and hope Rufus knew what he was doing.

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