Troop of Shadows by Nicki Huntsman Smith

Author:Nicki Huntsman Smith [Smith, Nicki Huntsman]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-04-09T23:00:00+00:00

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They’d made it almost to the Utah border by the time day began sliding into dusk. Julia said they should stop, but Logan wished they would keep going. He thought it would be fun traveling at night with the stars and moon overhead. He wanted to find out if the car could outrun them, but she said it would be dangerous to drive after dark. She seemed to know best about these things. She was very smart. She was a doctor, plus she had magic. How much magic he didn’t know, and so far he hadn’t been able to figure out if hers was stronger than his, but he suspected it was. That’s why he hadn’t killed her yet. He wasn’t sure if a magical person could be killed with just a regular gun. Maybe it took some kind of charmed gun or a Harry Potter wand, which he didn’t have.

He had started to like her too. He enjoyed how she explained things to him, and she was hardly ever bossy. She reminded him a lot of his mother, who he still missed but also didn’t miss because he enjoyed not having any rules. Except for the ones the Bad Thoughts told him about, and he didn’t always have to mind them if he didn’t want to. They only lived in his head, and they couldn’t actually force him to do stuff. They just got really loud sometimes if he ignored them, which could be annoying.

There’d been no motel in the area, so when they saw signs for Great Basin National Park campgrounds, she’d steered the car that direction. He was happy about that. It meant they would get to have another campfire tonight, and he’d discovered he was almost as good at making fires as he was at shooting guns.

After the fire was going, Julia did the wizard thing to their suppers. He was still amazed by how adding cold water to dust could make it hot. He figured it must be magic powder, even though she said it was chemistry. All the food she’d brought was tasty, but he wished there were Twinkies. He remembered tasting them in the park that morning right before he’d seen the girl with the carrot-colored hair. Twinkies were just about the most delicious thing ever.

As he sat on a picnic table by the fire eating his dinner — it was spaghetti-with-Italian-style-meat sauce, which was not as good as the beef-stew-with-vegetables but was still pretty good — he watched Brains tiptoeing about on his long rope. Julia said he was not happy about being tied to that rope, but it was for-his-own-good. The cat had eaten canned tuna which smelled stinky to him. When he saw Logan watching him, he hissed and growled. Cats really liked to hiss. It was a funny sound, like the steam that came out of his mother’s teapot.

He finished his food, then she said he should use the campground bathrooms instead of going outside like he’d been doing. He didn’t see what difference it made, but she’d asked nicely, so he did.

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