Mist Murder: The Ferndale Fog Witch Cozy Mystery Series by Linnea West

Author:Linnea West [West, Linnea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Back at the Cauldron Shop, Maggie and Esmeralda were scouring the surface of the table where they had dissected the potion. Their first thought had been that perhaps they really had made a mistake. Maybe, just maybe, there had been a small amount of something that they had missed. They looked over every inch of the table in case they missed a few drops, but the table was clear. Even after crawling around on the floor for a while, Maggie didn’t find anything that had been missed.

Esmeralda conjured up two armchairs. After spending so much time perched on that uncomfortable wooden stool at Ned’s store, the last thing the witches wanted was to sit on another hard wooden stool. The dark purple velvet armchairs that Esmeralda conjured into being were plush and inviting. Maggie sank down into hers, wanting nothing more than to take a nap which she knew she wouldn’t ever get to have.

“Now we have a mystery on our hands,” Esmeralda said. “I don’t like it one bit. Something is going on that is so fishy to me. Obviously this is part of the death problem here in Grimwood Valley.”

“So the potion itself has poison in it but when we take it apart, the poison disappears,” Maggie said. She was trying to talk everything out not because it helped solve anything, but just to make sure that she understood. Magic was still so foreign to her and she was never quite sure what to believe or not believe. “How does that work? Can magic do that?”

Esmeralda shifted in her chair. She propped her elbow on the arm of the chair and rested her chin in it, settling herself into the stereotypical thinking pose. With one point of her finger, a teapot and two teacups appeared on a little table in front of them. Esmeralda reached forward and poured them each a cup of tea before answering Maggie.

“It could do that, at least it is possible,” Esmeralda said. “But the troubling thing is that the only two in town who should be capable of doing that are you and I. And I don’t think I’m jumping to conclusions to rule the two of us out as suspects.”

“I agree that we aren’t suspects, although I don’t agree that I am capable of doing that sort of magic,” Maggie said.

She picked up her teacup and blew on the surface of her tea, trying to cool it down so that she wouldn’t burn her mouth. Her mother looked at her over the edge of her own teacup.

“You know, at some point you will have to realize the extent of your powers,” Esmeralda said. “You are a very powerful witch and I am pretty sure that the only thing holding you back is you.”

Maggie opened her mouth to argue but stopped short when the door to the Cauldron Shop opened. Turning to see who was coming in, Maggie felt like she’d had a bucket of cold water thrown on her. Mariah walked in from the fog and immediately scowled at the witches in their armchairs.

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