Witch out of Luck by Elle Adams

Author:Elle Adams [Adams, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-12T05:00:00+00:00

8

Ava wasn’t hard to find. She spotted me the instant I walked into the hospital waiting room and crowed with delight. As usual, she wore a purple wig with a plastic wand tangled in it and a dress patterned with bright flowers.

“Let’s go on an adventure, young Briar,” she said, grabbing my arm.

“Uh, great idea, but you’re not supposed to be out of the ward,” I said. “Also, it’s Blair.”

Ava seemed confused about me at the best of times. She might have known my mother and had been the one to tell me my maternal grandmother had died shortly after her daughter had left town, but she never managed to get my name right.

“Beware the wild one, Briar Wilkes,” she said. “Beware the wild one.”

Okay… “Who’s the wild one?” I decided to humour her. “You mean the elves?”

She spun on the spot in a dramatic dance. “Elves? Tricksters, they are. Nasty little tricksters.”

“Have you seen any elves in your visions lately?” I asked, in a desperate attempt to get her to sit down.

“I see water,” she said. “I see glass. I see death.”

Right. I knew better than to wonder if she was having an actual premonition. “Have you seen Annabel this week?”

“Oh, not for a while,” she said. “She hasn’t got the time for the likes of me, not now she’s spending all her time with that elf. Never mind her, let’s go on an adventure.”

“Hang on.” I moved my arms behind my back in case she grabbed me again. “Did you know they split up? Understandably, Annabel’s not happy. I wondered if she’d talked to you about it.”

“Split up?” She sat down next to me. “No, no. She never said anything to me.”

I hesitated. “Well, she split up with him and they’re both very upset. The thing is… did she ever talk to you about developing the Seeing gift?”

“No.” Her glassy blue-grey eyes clouded over in a manner similar to her granddaughter’s. “No, she didn’t develop the gift when she hoped she would. We were both disappointed, but these things are rare. What you and I have is a gift, Briar.”

“What if she did develop it, though?” I asked. “What then?”

“I would need to teach her,” she said. “No seer can learn without guidance.”

Hmm. Either Annabel had found a mentor, or she’d gone it alone. But she had so much faith in her vision that something must have convinced her that it was real.

“Of course, if she had the gift, she’d tell me,” Ava said. “She tells me everything. Even about that elf.”

Maybe not everything. That was a conversation those two needed to have in their own time.

If most of what Ava said was nonsense or unreliable at best, maybe that was why Annabel had opted not to tell her. Still, most of the time, witches and wizards discovered their gifts in childhood. I was one of the few exceptions. If she hadn’t asked her grandmother for advice, who had taught her? I’d thought there weren’t any other seers in town.

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