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A Stroke Of Midnight :: Гамильтон Лорел
Страница: 119 из 293Nothing I read cautioned against bringing in new people, or I wouldhave left her at the lab.”
“The innocent have always been more susceptible to us,” Hawthorne said.
“She’s never been in love,” I said, and was surprised to hear myself say it. “But she wants to be.”
Polaski gave me a funny look. “How did you know that?”
I shrugged, using my fingers to keep the cloak closed over the chalice.
Ivi bent close to her face. “Be careful what you wish for, little one, you may get it, and not know what to do when you unwrap the bow.” Again the words were laced with sorrow.
Jeanine Carmichael began to cry.
“Leave her alone,” Polaski said.
“I am leaving her with sorrow, Doctor, not lust, not happiness, not beauty. I am making as certain as I can, that when she wakes tomorrow she will remember sorrow, like a bad dream. I wish that she remembers nothing that will send her seeking us again.”
“You’re disturbing, did you know that?” Polaski asked.
Ivi gave that mocking smile. “You are not the first to say it, though I believe the last woman phrased it differently. She said I was disturbed.”
Polaski looked at him as if she couldn’t decide if he was joking or telling another bitter truth.
CHAPTER 16
WE WAITED FOR THE POLICE TO RETURN TO US AFTER ESCORTING their befuddled colleague away. The hallway should have been a short trip, but that long expanse of grey stone had grown longer, and now there was a curve that hid the door from view. The entrance to the sithen never changed.
“I believe the sithen wishes us to have some privacy,” Frost said.
The chalice under my cloak grew warm against my skin. I let my breath out in a sigh, and simply nodded. I did not like the chalice appearing like this. It amplified magic, and we’d had some very strange and powerful things happen between the guards and myself when the cup was present. It was almost as if the chalice didn’t want to leave me alone to solve the murders. The cup pulsed so hard that it made me gasp.
Hawthorne reached to steady me, but Frost caught his hand and gave a small shake of his head. Too dangerous in the open with the humans coming back so soon. Some things we did not want to explain to the police. Some things we couldn’t explain to anyone.
If everyone in the hallway had glimpsed the chalice, it would have been a quicker conversation, but we had guards with us who had been standing where they could not see, so we talked around it.
Ivi began, “I’m all for solving the murders.
“The innocent have always been more susceptible to us,” Hawthorne said.
“She’s never been in love,” I said, and was surprised to hear myself say it. “But she wants to be.”
Polaski gave me a funny look. “How did you know that?”
I shrugged, using my fingers to keep the cloak closed over the chalice.
Ivi bent close to her face. “Be careful what you wish for, little one, you may get it, and not know what to do when you unwrap the bow.” Again the words were laced with sorrow.
Jeanine Carmichael began to cry.
“Leave her alone,” Polaski said.
“I am leaving her with sorrow, Doctor, not lust, not happiness, not beauty. I am making as certain as I can, that when she wakes tomorrow she will remember sorrow, like a bad dream. I wish that she remembers nothing that will send her seeking us again.”
“You’re disturbing, did you know that?” Polaski asked.
Ivi gave that mocking smile. “You are not the first to say it, though I believe the last woman phrased it differently. She said I was disturbed.”
Polaski looked at him as if she couldn’t decide if he was joking or telling another bitter truth.
CHAPTER 16
WE WAITED FOR THE POLICE TO RETURN TO US AFTER ESCORTING their befuddled colleague away. The hallway should have been a short trip, but that long expanse of grey stone had grown longer, and now there was a curve that hid the door from view. The entrance to the sithen never changed.
“I believe the sithen wishes us to have some privacy,” Frost said.
The chalice under my cloak grew warm against my skin. I let my breath out in a sigh, and simply nodded. I did not like the chalice appearing like this. It amplified magic, and we’d had some very strange and powerful things happen between the guards and myself when the cup was present. It was almost as if the chalice didn’t want to leave me alone to solve the murders. The cup pulsed so hard that it made me gasp.
Hawthorne reached to steady me, but Frost caught his hand and gave a small shake of his head. Too dangerous in the open with the humans coming back so soon. Some things we did not want to explain to the police. Some things we couldn’t explain to anyone.
If everyone in the hallway had glimpsed the chalice, it would have been a quicker conversation, but we had guards with us who had been standing where they could not see, so we talked around it.
Ivi began, “I’m all for solving the murders.