Skydance by Katherine Rhodes

Author:Katherine Rhodes [Rhodes, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-11T05:00:00+00:00

Max looked at the map. “We are way north of Oak Hill at this point. Still feel it?”

Brindy, in her harpy version, nodded. “Yup. Been trying to call up the glamour for about five minutes. Nothing.”

“How far does this go?” Amy lamented. “We can’t have a paranormal town if we don’t have the paranormal.”

“Rigel is still down,” Lola said over the Bluetooth in the car. “It’s been nearly half an hour.”

They could hear the worry in her voice, and frankly, Max didn’t blame her. This was the longest outage yet, and there was no sign of it letting up.

“We’re going to have to cut over to County Road 403 pretty soon, or we’re going to end up in Lake Bellamee.” Max pointed to the navigator. “At this point I’m almost willing to bet this goes all the way to the Canadian border.”

Lola’s relived voice came through the speaker. “Oh! He took a breath!”

“Brindy?”

“Nothing yet.”

“Stop, Max. Stop here. Pull over and let’s wait.”

“Ladies and gentlemen, I’m awake,” Rigel said.

Max nodded in agreement and pulled the car over. They sat on the side of the road, nearly ten miles north of Oak Hill, having started the drive up through the town as soon as Rigel sat down in the living room and declared there was a power outage coming. Brindy, who had almost let out the secret in town three days earlier when her glamour dropped in the middle of the grocery store, was all on board for finding out more about the outage.

Max glanced back at her. He’d always been taught that the harpies were horrible, cruel creatures, with no regard for life. But Brindy had proved him completely wrong. She was a young harpy, and without her human glamour, she was actually quite beautiful. She had massive talons for her feet that turned to human legs above the odd knee joint. She was covered in soft downy feathers that extended to her neck and shoulders. Her human arms were long and slender with wicked looking claws she could retract, and her wings were huge, but folded neatly back. The feathers that covered her were white and brown, and her tail feathers were pure white on the bottom and brown on the top.

This was her natural, normal form. The magic gave her the ability to retain a human form. They were reliant on it to hide among the humans. Shifters were different. They had two forms, or three in the case of some of the strong wolves, and they relied on the magic to guide them through the changes. Dragons relied on the magic to keep them aloft and in dragon form.

It was amazing how much they were learning about magic by losing it.

Sitting on the side of the road, it was another five minutes before Brindy started to feel the magic coming back, and another two after that before she could use it to be human again.

“Holy hell.” Brindy sat back in the seat, fully human again. “That was horrible.”

“Thirty-two minutes,” Lola said.

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