Fairy Metal Thunder (Songs of Magic, Book 1)
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Chapter Thirty-Three
Zinerva the dullahan sat at her dark antique desk in the top room in the highest turret of her house. She was surrounded by her tools of divination. Her crystal ball had gone dark just after her darkfae allies took over the video shoot, running off most of the humans. This meant someone had destroyed the other crystal ball, the one Lew the leprechaun planted for her in Dracula’s castle.
Zinerva wanted to know who was interfering with her plans.
After her crystal ball failed, Zinerva had tried one trick after another to learn what was happening. Her tea leaves reported nothing, as did her magic mirror. Her deck of Arcana cards showed her plans (represented by The Hooded Rider) being blocked by The Leprechaun, a card that represented trickiness, plots, and schemes.
She wondered if she’d been betrayed by her spy Lew. And to whom would he have betrayed her? Certainly not Queen Mab, since Lew was illegally living in man-world. The Queen forbade any Folk to live among the humans, except for gatekeepers like Zinerva.
“What do you suppose happened, Mortimer?” Zinerva asked her tall, gaunt servant, who stood quietly in the corner, ready to pour tea on demand.
“I have no thoughts,” he replied.
“As usual.” Zinerva sighed. “We were wise to stay out of this. There must be someone working against us, some Folk involved here.”
“It is possible.”
Zinerva considered going to the ruins herself to see what had happened, but that was too risky.
“We still have one advantage.” Zinerva’s body held out her dark crystal ball toward her head, and she gazed into it. “All of their families live so close to us. We must make use of that.”
An image formed inside her ball: the little girl, Katie Becker, sister of Jason the guitarist.