Magical Maladies for Beginners by Sarina Dorie

Author:Sarina Dorie [Dorie, Sarina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amazon.com
Published: 2020-01-15T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

The Fool’s Errand

The first thing Lucifer did when he returned was check on Abigail. The ward was still intact. Her face remained peaceful in sleep, and her hands were folded over a bouquet of flowers he’d picked. His arms were too full of groceries he’d carried in paper bags to inspect her fingers and toes, though he saw no blood on the blankets around her feet. That made him feel slightly better, but not entirely.

Later, he would be having words with Baba. It was bad enough she wouldn’t help him put Abigail’s soul in her body, and it might be too late by the time he learned how to restore her, but he wouldn’t have her using Abigail’s fingers while she was asleep.

He set down the bags, intending to inspect her fingers, the paper crinkling as he did so.

“Lucy?” Baba called from the cottage. “Are you back from your errand?”

“Indeed.” Lucifer picked up the bags again. He would return to Abigail in a moment.

Lucifer found Godric inside, staring at an empty teacup. The scars on his face were hardly noticeable, though Lucifer didn’t notice the shimmer of glamour. Perhaps Kelsie was better at wards than she was at chores.

Baba sat at the table sipping her tea. Lucifer would wait until later before he asked whether she had cured his scars as well as his disease or she’d constructed a glamour better than the one the duke’s wizard had performed.

The zing of pain didn’t greet Lucifer as he entered the room, but there were remnants of it in the air, like wisps of smoke. From Godric’s miserable expression as he stared into his cup, Lucifer wondered whether Baba had just read his tea leaves. People often had such an expression on their faces after Baba told them their fortunes.

“I got the antibiotics for your gono-herpe-syphil-aids.” Lucifer handed Godric the bag the pharmacist had handed him. “There are directions in there. Also, there are directions for your lady friend so she can take some as well.”

“My lady friend?” Godric asked.

“The maid. The one you said you caught your sexually transmitted infection from. You need to make sure she gets some medicine as well, so she won’t die of liver failure down the road.” Lucifer wondered how many maids the young man had bedded since that time. Perhaps he should have asked for more antibiotics.

Godric’s eyes went wide. “That sounds serious.” He accepted the medicine, nodded to Baba, and then left. His head was ducked down, shame in his posture. It was queer to see the man so rattled now, whereas in the middle of the night he had endured his humiliation with irritation more than guilt.

Lucifer watched Godric go out the front door.

“What was that about?” Lucifer asked. “Did he not like his fortune?”

Kelsie kneaded dough for bread. She didn’t answer. Lucifer wondered whether she was on edge because he’d been terse earlier when he’d gotten angry with Baba for not telling him about the wards.

“The goat needs milking,” Baba said. “And after that, we need more firewood.

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