Snitch Witch (Spell Maven Mystery Book 2) by J. L. Collins

Author:J. L. Collins [Collins, J. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-07T22:00:00+00:00

13

Into the Woods

It didn’t take Marina muttering “Whoa,” to herself for me to understand the consequences we were dealing with. I gently picked up my wand, my hands shaking. Not ready to let it out of my sight, I held it tightly in my hand. What the heck just happened? Another magic leak?

Erie seemed to be wondering the same thing, her eyes steady on me as I stood back up. “Gwen—”

“—was that . . . was that like, real?” Marina asked.

Fiona-Leigh looked to me, biting her lip. The air was thick with the words I wanted to say. The incantations I knew I could say and make all of this magically go away. But that was just it. No magic was possible here—at least not controlled magic.

Mentally, I was smacking myself for not having a better back-up plan ready to go just in case. Being out of the academy this long was starting to become a real pain in the butt.

Sully took a few steps forward before bending down to inspect the charred spot caused by the blue flames. It was like time stopped, waiting for him to say something.

“Okay.” He cleared his throat and stood up, running his hands over his head until they were splayed across the back of it. “Okay. So. As someone who’s studied physics pretty thoroughly in college before going down the whole mortuary science road, this is either the best theatrical cosplay toy that’s ever been created and therefore probably worth way more than a kid in high school has access to . . . or, what? Somehow that wand just lit my floor on fire?”

I quickly shook my head. “It works like a lighter—you know, you can push a little button and colorful flames appear? I’ve seen Zippos that can do that.”

Sully didn’t look even slightly convinced. “Uh huh.”

Marina wasn’t really buying it either. “Then why didn’t the flames stay put at the end of it? They like, expanded or something. Like they had a mind of their own.”

“That’s not how fire works,” Fiona-Leigh said.

“Well duh, Fi! I know that! That’s what I mean. That,” Marina said, pointing directly at my wand, “isn’t some fancy lighter. A lighter wouldn’t do that. So maybe someone will explain why you’re acting so weird about it.”

Fiona-Leigh took a step backward and closer to me. The tension thrumming in her to just lay it all out for them was almost tangible. I could see how badly she was wanting to tell the truth.

I nudged her, and widened my eyes as she looked at me. “Maybe we will.”

“What?” she and Erie replied in unison.

“Maybe we can show them the truth about the wand,” I said. What I wouldn’t give for Aunt Bee’s telepathic ability right about now…

“Gwen? You know the rules,” Erie leaned in and whispered as softly as she could.

Even Fiona-Leigh looked completely confused. I couldn’t exactly blame them—what I was about to say was going against everything I’d ever told her before.

I took a deep breath, keeping my cool as I looked straight at Sully.

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