The Demon Hunter's Wife: A cozy blood bath urban fantasy by C J Powell
Author:C J Powell [Powell, C J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-03-06T00:00:00+00:00
The Bureau
âCome on, you.â
Before Sadie has the chance to take it all in, Devika grabs her by the elbow and leads her across the immense reception area where they now stand.
Iron Bill wrestles in Thelmaâs grasp, flapping her wings to get free, but Thelma draws some of the twine Devika had used to bind Sadieâs wrists and wraps it around the duckâs body, holding her fast.
âBe still, Iron Bill,â says Primrose. He looks down at his bonds but doesnât struggle. âThey used the unpleasantness-to-perceived-time conundrum, didnât they?â
âFirst-year eldritch physics, apparently,â says Sadie.
âDid we get to where weâre supposed to be?â
âI hope so.â
Devika drags her towards a reception desk manned by what looks like a bad stone carving of a bulky man.
The click-clacking of hundreds of feet reverberates around the room. Sadie watches as a giant, knee-high centipede passes them. It raises a leg and tips a bowler hat towards Thelma and Devika. âLadies.â Then disappears around the corner segment by segment.
Sadie shivers. Centipedes were worse than spiders.
Waiting at the reception desk is a sort of tall human with butterfly wings. She looks a similar species to the body in the pool back at the Drakeâs. A green, tusked fellow, with his arms bound behind his back, waits with her. She grips his arm as if he might run away.
Other creatures come and go. Three other little old people like Thelma and Devika sit in a corner of the room heatedly discussing something over tiny polystyrene cups of steaming black coffee.
A graceful, slender man with pointy ears spots them and approaches. His hair, braided and plaited with coloured beads and small bronze flowers, lies in a tail along his back. He looks like her first celebrity crush, Orlando Bloom.
âEveninâ, girls,â he says with a thick Liverpudlian accent. He stops and folds his arms, like heâs digging in ready for a good chin-wag. âWho you got?â He nods towards Sadie.
âSays sheâs just a norm who found a wand,â says Devika. âPretty cut and dry. Gonna confiscate, then delete her memory.â
âYouâre gonna what?â
They ignore her.
âWait a minuteââ
âI reckon thereâs a little more to this one.â Thelma bobs her head from side to side. âFound her with this pixie and this duck.â She leans her head, and a small frown dents her brow. âYou heard of a Dirk Kilmore, TherâPerâFliffâFloff?â
TherâPerâFliffâFloff shakes his head. His gently jingling braid swings in stunning slow motion. âDoesnât he run the potion shop by the pie shop?â
âAaah,â says Devika, pointing a goading finger at Thelma.
Thelma rolls her eyes. âNo, thatâs Derek the Kraken.â
âGork might know.â The elf nods towards the statue behind the reception desk, which now appears to be filling out a form with grinding, precise movements.
The butterfly woman and the green guy stand before the desk, checking in with him as if this were a hotel.
âBut I ainât done nuffinâ,â complains the green man around a mouthful of sharp teeth. âThat kebab shop was like that when I got there.â
âGood shout,â says Thelma. âWeâll ask.â
Thereâs an awkward
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