An Imperfect Witch by Debora Geary

Author:Debora Geary [Geary, Debora]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Goodreads: 18518523
Publisher: Fireweed Publishing
Published: 2013-09-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Lizard pulled her coat tighter around her ears as she slipped down the alleyway. Freaking cold at the crack of dawn. She crept as far as Trinity’s doorway and set down the mongo box of apple fritters.

At this hour, nobody would disturb them.

“You back in my alley, noodle girl?”

Lizard nearly cracked her brains out on the dumpster. “What the hell are you doing up? It’s 6 a.m.”

“I’m one of those night-owl types.” Trinity leaned back against the dumpster. “You?”

“Can’t sleep.” Too many apologies that still needed saying. “I was an idiot last time I saw you. Laid my shit on you, saw things that weren’t there. Rocky’s a good guy.”

“Yeah, he is.” Trinity’s eyes looked Lizard up and down. “Snazzy outfit.”

No time for costume changes this morning. “I have stuff to do.”

The dark-eyed woman nodded. “You let go of the street on the outside real good. But you still carry it around on the inside some, huh?”

Frack. Surrounded by amateur psychologists. “Yeah.”

A long silence. “That why you bring us noodles? Because you remember?”

It sounded better than being a do-gooder shithead. “Something like that.”

Trinity smiled. “Missy says she wants a job like yours one day. Where she can hold her head up high and buy classy boots.”

Lizard squirmed. “I’m nobody’s role model.”

“Like hell you aren’t.” Trinity smirked. “On the work stuff, anyhow. You want some advice on keeping your man happy? I got you some of that.”

On the street, that kind of advice tended to get pornographic in a hurry. “Nah. Don’t eat your fritters all at once.”

Trinity took the box. “There’s guys who can handle seeing the street, you know. Decent guys.”

Lizard realized she wasn’t the only one hoping like hell that was true. “Yeah. There totally are.”

Amusement, a head toss, and a grin. “Get out of my alley, mini. You mess with my décor, all snazzed up like that.”

Lizard snorted. And walked back down the alley, several light-years happier than when she’d come in.

-o0o-

It was a coziness, this chance to curl up in front of the fire on a chilly morning and mix up a bit of this and that. Moira smiled at her companion, head peering down at the innards of a potions jar. “Worked out what it is just yet?” It was good for young healer noses to get regular training, even those as gifted as this one.

“Some burdock root—that’s the big smell. And lemon balm to make it smell nice.” Ginia paused, thinking. “And maybe to potentiate the vitamin C of the nettles, too.”

So far, exactly right. “Which makes it a remedy for arthritis, no doubt.”

Ginia grinned. “Maybe. But there’s something else in here, and I’m going to figure out what it is.”

Smart girl. “Good healers use their noses, but they also use their heads.” Moira stopped, curious if her pupil could pick up on the hint. Ginia was a powerful energetic healer, but they were still working on getting her herbals knowledge caught up to her inborn talent. Two years was only scratching the surface of the lore of plants.

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