Meet Her Later

“I’m going to head home to change. Can we meet after you warn David?”

“Sure. How about somewhere crowded? Maybe the mall?”

“Coffee shop.”

“Sounds good.”

You head home, hoping to get a quick shower and change. You step into your place. To your surprise there is a large book on your kitchen table. It looks old, with black bindings and no title.

You touch it to open it and it feels like it is part of you. You open the book and it opens to a page titled ‘Banishment’. The directions are simple. Focus on dispelling a summoned creature and say ‘retorno’.

You flip the page. It is titled ‘Lust’. Again the instructions are so simple you wonder how you haven’t done it accidentally.

You flip to another page. It is titled ‘Glamour: to always look your best’. You imagine it would be an enormous morning timesaver.

You wonder if the book can help you stop Danielle. You recall Danielle holding a seed. You flip to another page and find the spell she used.

Witchseed: A spell most powerful. It will exhaust a witch and can only be cast in an aligned moon.

You look at the diagram. It looks like more than a hundred years until the next alignment. You smile. All you and Christina have to do is stop Danielle from forming a coven. You keep reading. The spell requires the seed be planted in a woman’s sex. All but those free of temptation will become witches. You need to get that seed from her and destroy it.

You close the book and head to the shower. The warm water is invigorating. You step out and look at yourself in the mirror.

“Shit.” You swear quietly.

There is a giant zit on your nose. You look horrible. Part of you wonders how much distance you can get if you pop it. You smear some exfoliating lotion on it.

Glamour you think. You can cast glamour. You wiggle your fingers and close your eyes. You open them. Staring back at you is your face if you had spent half a day doing your make up hair. You grin, wondering how you ever got by without this.

You exit your place.