Murder by Magic by Rex Baron

Author:Rex Baron
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2019-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

Morning sifted through the long windows, casting a cool blue light over her naked flesh. Lucy awoke, stiff and cold from lying on the bare stone floor. It was finished. She had done all she could, calling up the power to assist her, and now the outcome lay in the hands of fate.

Around her were scattered what seemed the ludicrous vestiges of a night of madness, circles of colored wax, where the candles had extinguished themselves against the coldness of the flagstones, dried flowers strewn all around, and somewhere, beyond the pool of dried blood in the center of the maze, in some hidden corner of the room, the charred scrap that held the names and the keys to the secret of her request.

She gathered up the pieces of the ceremony, now nothing more than ordinary household implements, returned to harmlessness, robbed of their enchantment with the coming of dawn and light and reason.

The sun was rising over the hillside. Lucy stood in the window of the chapel, and remembering the vision of the Angel, glanced upward to be certain that he was as she had seen him. The faded painting glowered down implacable in its pagan secrets.

She returned the platter to the kitchen along with the knife and other objects before seeking the comfort of her bed and unenchanted sleep. The dead flowers alone resisted her inclination to toss them on the compost heap in the garden.

As if still infused with energy from the ritual, they demanded a position of watchful commemoration of the event. She divided them into three bunches and placed them in vases without water. She deposited one in the circle where the ceremony had taken place, one in the drawing room, and one on the side table in the front hallway, then, yawning, she made her way up the stairs to her room.

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