Protecting the Dead by Katherine Gilbert

Author:Katherine Gilbert
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Katherine Gilbert
Published: 2019-04-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

It had been a morning to remember, but the rest of the day proceeded in what Lydia was starting to think of as a routine. A phoenix who had finally managed to harness the intensity of her resurrective fires turned in her keys, ready to move out to the desert to start again. Butch, their newest werewolf, needed a plumber to be called, having unintentionally clogged his drains with fur. She was even introduced to a revenant who was having trouble convincing herself not to go back to visit her family.

The latter of these, Carrie, had taken a good few hours of counseling by the angel, along with whatever general support Lydia could manage. Mostly, she had ended up pointing out the obvious. No matter how great their grief at her loss, her sudden reappearance from the grave could only have proven a nearly fatal shock to even the most loving family.

It wasn’t that Lydia was unsympathetic to her tenant, of course. As much as she tried to settle herself into her own new life, she too felt terribly disconnected. In many ways, it wasn’t a particularly new sensation. Never before had she had much of anyone to even try to connect with, Lyle probably the closest there had been to a real, flesh-and-blood friend, and he had just been in it for the demon. Now, strangely, she did seem to have some neighbors who cared, even if none of them could exactly be called normal.

This truth had revived her somewhat, knowing she too could never achieve such mundanity, despite her many efforts. The strange comradeship was even beginning to teach her a feeling she thought must be happiness.

Still, these, various events hadn’t been the whole of her day. After the revenant had returned to her apartment with one of their newer tenant ghosts for company, Lydia had looked up to her doorway to see a man glowering, murmuring some of the more blood-and-death Biblical passages. She had recognized them instantly. Her own parents had been quite fond of Revelation.

She was getting used to the job now, had instantly tried to connect. Despite the fact that she had felt a bit disturbed by his presence, she had started to talk to this man-of-the-cloth, not certain what he was but deciding that he must be one of Geoffrey’s. Apparently, she had been quite wrong.

Her invitation had been all the man had needed. Just as he had started coming into the room, pointing at her, screaming, the angel had run out of his office, somehow reinforcing the web of shining lights over the door. With their glow, the man was, thankfully, cast back into the outer office.

Although enraged, he was eventually consoled by Gail, left, muttering, with her arm around him. Lydia had been left shaking all over.

There had been a reward for her fears, however. The angel had stood holding her for quite some time. Still, he had done nothing to explain, had released her only with a whispered, “Trust your instincts.

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