Under Her Spell by Maggie Morton

Author:Maggie Morton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2013-10-31T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

When she walked back up the bank, she was bone-dry after she’d taken only five steps away from the water. Freakin’ awesome! But what awaited her back at the car wasn’t awesome in the least. All four tires on her car were flat, and the acrid smell of burnt rubber filled the air. She threw open her car door to check on Onyx, who was cowering and shaking on the floor. “Onyx! Are you okay, sweetie? What happened?”

“Don’t…know…I’m just scared. Very, very scared. I think there was a fire, and some…don’t know.”

Terra scooped him up and held him to her chest. “It’s safe now, Onyx, you’re safe now. I’ve got the power of water now, and I’m sure it can fight off whatever burned those tires.” She rubbed his belly until he started to purr softly, and soon he was asleep. She placed him in his seat and got in on her own side, beginning to think. What was she going to do about her car? Her only transportation, now with no ability to move? Perhaps…yes, it was just crazy enough to work.

She took the car jack and tire iron out of the back of the car and removed each of the now-useless tires. Then she held her hand out over the edge of the bridge, watching in delight as water flowed past her hand and around the four areas where the tires had just been. The car began to rise, and she heard a small yowl from the inside of the car, followed by a flash of black fur. Onyx was now hiding behind her legs. “What are you doing, Terra?” he asked, his voice trembling.

“Just fixing our problem, that’s all.” She was grinning by now, and she let out a little gleeful laugh. This was fun! “Look, Onyx, now we can keep going. Isn’t that cool?”

“I guess…I guess it is cool. But is it safe?” He slunk out from behind her legs and walked up to a tire, sniffing it cautiously. “Smells like…fish.”

“I’ll bet it does. Now, let’s get in and keep going. Only two parts of the quest left, my cute little kitty-friend.”

“You sound a little too excitable.” Onyx sniffed. “Cool your jets.”

“No, someone else’s jets need cooling, and it’s not me. Whoever the bastard was who ruined my tires, that’s whose jets need cooling.”

“All I know,” Onyx said, hopping into the car and settling into his chair, “is that I’m pretty sure I don’t want to run into whoever it was. I singed my fur on a candle once, and I don’t want to experience the full-body version.”

“I’m sure we’ll be fine,” Terra said, starting up the engine. The car started rolling—or flowing? Terra thought—forward across the bridge, and it seemed to be moving even more smoothly than it had with the rubber tires. Terra was sure they’d be fine, or at least mostly sure. She couldn’t help but feel just a tiny bit worried, but she was too busy paying attention to her recent success to pay much heed to that little bit of fear.

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