The Shimmering Door: Stories by Katharine Kerr
Author:Katharine Kerr [Kerr, Katharine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780061053429
Google: AHr3AAAACAAJ
Amazon: 0061053422
Goodreads: 558660
Published: 2022-09-03T02:56:17+00:00
D E A D A N D G O N E
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Elaine sat back down on the couch, clutching her purse like a shield.
Her tears stopped abruptly and her eyes went wide with fright.
âShadow!â Vince heard his own voice boom in the ghostly Voice of Command, then he grabbed the cat and bundled it back into normal feline dimensions. âNo!â
Shadowâ squirmed and growled, but at last settled down.
Vince looked to Elaine and gave a nervous grin. âCats. Gotta love
âem, huh?â He grimaced. Oh God, he knew something like this was going to happen.
Elaine bit her lip. âHeâs dead too, isnât he?â
âUh, yeah.â It was an attempt to make conversation, at least. â1 got him at the pound. Theyâd, well, had a haunting problem. Listen, if you want to go ⦠â He began to get the door.
âNo, no, itâs all right.â She reached into her purse and got out a tissue. âItâs justâ â She dabbed at her eyes. âIâm sorry. I came here under false pretenses. I didnât really want a date.â
Vince went over to the couch and sat down, holding Shadowâ in his lap. âI sort of figured that.â
âItâs notâ Well, yes, it is, maybe. Itâs just that my brother died, and, well, I wâanted to talk to him.â
âHave you tried a seance?â
âFirst thing. I borrowed every Ouija board on the block. Nothing.â
Elaine looked at the black marks of mascara on the tissue, then up at Vince. âI must look awful.â
Vince smiled. âNot half as bad as I do. Trust me.â
Elaine looked at her lap. âOkay. The police said Garyâs death was an accident and his soul had just passed on. No murder, no suicide. But I knew something like this was going to happen. I did. I get premonitions sometimesâ not like an oracle, nothing clear or anythingâbut sometimes I knowâ when something bad is going to happen, or has happened. And itâs like that now. My . . . gift . . . isnât anything documented, and itâs easier for the police to just dismiss me as crazy than to believe in wildmagic, but I know thereâs something wrong. Very wrong.
Gar}â would have come back to talk to me. He promised. We both did.
Except now heâs gone and the only thing left is necromancy and I never could afford to hireâ â She broke off, her throat catching. âWhen I saw your ad, Iâ Iâm sorry. Iâm just desperate.â
âThat, and smart,â Vince said. âYou did your homework. A lich is the only sort of necromancer who canât get into trouble for disturbing the dead without a court order, right?â
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