Come Witch or High Water (Witch Detective Series Book 2) by Constance Barker

Author:Constance Barker [Barker, Constance]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Constance Barker
Published: 2019-04-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

It turned out that the beach where Alan saw Tracy and the creature (that might just be a man) was near where the school was for the small settlement. I had assumed everyone was home schooled, there couldn’t be that many young people. So it was a surprise to learn that they had a school at all. We asked Roger about it, and the best way to get there. Judy didn’t need to be bothered with this. To Roger we were only curios tourists still trying to have a good trip despite the missing woman. Only 20 kids attended the school, and it was a mixture of elementary, middle and high school students. Essentially it was a place where they could go to be home schooled, that was not home.

“I don’t think we’ll find much,” Winnie said kicking the sand as we walked towards the cave. “They already bolted.”

“Maybe we can figure out once and for all what we’re actually looking for. If Alan’s right, we might not even be after a lake creature. We’ll have to change our strategy if that’s the case.” We could be dealing with a warlock or a wizard, perhaps a water nymph of some kind. Whatever he was, he was more powerful than we'd been expecting.

Alan had recounted everything to us, every word he had heard from Tracy and the man. It seemed like he was right, and she was taken, but maybe she didn’t mind. Winnie thought she might have run off with a lover and it was all just for show. I didn’t think would do that to her mother, or to her own future. She seemed ambitious to me, like someone who wanted more than the typical small town life she might end up with if she stayed here.

“If he isn’t a water creature, then why did it say he was when we got assigned the job?” Winnie asked.

“I think our boss can be wrong sometimes too,” I rolled my eyes. I wasn’t up for another argument with Winnie about management. I knew as much as she did, whether she believed me or not. I had been awake almost all night looking after Alan. He said he was fine, and Winnie had given him a rejuvenation spell that had set him right but I still worried about my feathered friend.

“Maybe they knew and are testing us.” I tried not to be curious about the management. I was blindly following them, and therefore had to trust them. They had given me a job, a purpose when I hadn't even a memory of who I was. To me that was enough. Winnie had chosen this path when she applied to be my intern for college credit.

“Maybe,” I said bored. “Are we almost there?” I asked Alan.

“Almost,” He looked with squinted eyes around the beach. I’m sure things had looked different before when the weather was bad. He began to say something, but I was distracted by shouting. A young woman was being continually pushed down by a group of larger girls and boys.

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