Improvised Explosive Druids: An Action Packed Urban Fantasy Thriller (Faerie Protective Services Inc Book 16) by McKinney Robert

Author:McKinney, Robert
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McKinney Can't Press
Published: 2023-01-16T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

My dad stood in the hallway with his shotgun dangling from a strap around his shoulders. And despite my signing to him earlier, his attention was not on me.

“What’s wrong with your arm?” he signed after giving me a once over from head to toe.

Frowning, I looked down to see that one of my shirt sleeves had been ripped from elbow to wrist. The damaged clothing revealed a broad swath of fresh burns that stopped just shy of my wrist.

They also revealed a glimpse of something else that was growing out of the wounds. Something that itched, for the moment, and looked a whole lot like patches of tough, desiccated bark.

“It’s a long story.” I signed back, hoping to change the subject.

“And that’s no bird.” he signed before gesturing towards Skaath. “That’s, what, Cathy?”

Skaath perched on the back of the home invader that she electrified. The man was still breathing, but the residual charge still running from his muscles made him jerk and twitch at odd moments. Skaath, undisturbed in her borrowed avian body, rose and fell along with the downed man’s twitches as if he were a surfboard that she’d taken for a spin on a restless sea.

I glanced from Skaath, to my dad, then back again my brows knitted in confusion.

See, my dad has memory problems. Not the usual kind, either. When I was a kid, my mom had an accident, and everyone thought she died. While that last part turned out to be a lot less than the whole truth, dad certainly thought she was gone. It hit him hard, and would have been bad enough if grief was all he had to deal with.

Within months of her accident, though, he started to forget things. Small things here and there, and then big stuff. Almost all of his lost recollections had something to do with, or some connection to, mom. The doctors called it some kind of early onset Alzheimer's mixed with the trauma of losing her suddenly. I now knew that it was magic that made him forget all faerie related things, and people, all along.

Actually, that’s not quite accurate. It was the lack of magic that damaged his memory. Turns out that the memories that pure mortals create while in the presence of magic tend to fade fast once that, or any other, source of magic withdraws. It has to be a fairly strong source as well. Much stronger than the instinctive, reflexive glamor that hides my more orcish features from most human perception.

Apparently dad had been in the presence of a whole lot of magic when he was married to mom. I’d taken him to Faerie once, and there all those lost memories came back to him pretty quickly. He met Skaath while in the land of magic alongside me. But those memories started to fade the moment he hit mortal soil, and were completely gone for almost a year or more now.

So why was he able to remember her name now? Well, not her name, but something close?

The answer came to me like a ton of bricks.

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