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"They worked in the library yesterday," I reminded him

"You need to check on your mom too So we’ll stop there after we shop for the sea salt, but I don’t knohere we’re going to find agrimony, ood, cedar, dill, and coriander in bulk around here"

"I’d include pine, heather, marjoram, and slippery elet"

Chance’swith Chuch, we’d received a refresher course in good wards The e We’d do the same--and I wouldn’t leave Butch out there until we did

That s weren’t any better than the previous day, I had a handle on the for supplies, and then we’d make phone calls Booke was on the case, and if I knew Chuch and Eva, they would want to do sowork if they could Jesse was on the way

If Kilhten

This was for un to fight Sure, they’d crippled us by taking away the tools we generally used to solve problems, but we’d find ways around the obstacles they threw in our path No matter how many times they knocked me onto a dirty road, I would rise I’d ferret out their secrets and then handle the objects that would spill theame on

Luckless Bastard

By one phboring town to pick up , twenty miles away, nobody seeh

We stood outside the public library while I snapped pictures of the building’s exterior with Chance’s phone When I thought I’d gotten all the angles, ent inside I studied the screen and, sure enough, as the door closed behind us, five bars lit up on the device, as opposed to the straggly one or te got anywhere else in town

I gave it back "Can you take some pictures of the inside and then send the lot to Booke? Do you have his e-lanced around the interior as if deciding where to start

Once he’d gone, I dug lared at me from the desk, so I moved away from the front door Somewhere in the middle of History and Philosophy, I took a look I had , I called Saldana, knowing he was probably here--or nearly so--by now, depending on what time he’d left Texas I had never been so happy to hear a call connect

He answered on the first ring, his voice warm, worried, and touched with a Texas drawl "Corine, are you all right? Where are you?"

"At the library," I told hi s are weird I’ll tell you more when you arrive" I wanted to say I was touched that he’d drop everything to co for me, but I couldn’t find the words, so I ith a question instead "Where are you?"

A long silence followed, but background noise told"I have no idea," he said at last "I can’t find the town GPS has never heard of it"

"Booke said there was no reference to Kilmer anywhere online, either If you’re totally off course, I suggest finding a library and looking for archived o earlieruntil you find it It’s here" I paused "Even if the rest of the world seeh," I went on, "look for a road sign There should be so posted about the next town"

"Yeah There’s one co up--looks like Darien I’ave hi on "We’ll meet you there in two hours If you have trouble, text me If I’m not here, Ifor you"

"And vice versa" I heard the s off

Then I called Booke It was so weird that we couldn’t call out anywhere else Coodforsaken town

"I have bad news, good news, and ood, please"

"You sent round bone dust, powdered stinkweed, andone thing I can’t seem to isolate If it’s been transmuted as a result of the spell, I may never knohat it was"

"The spell or the coht now, it could be a spell enital warts, prevent attacks frorow hair on your back and develop unpleasant body odor, or summon a demonic cat to sured he could go on like that for a while "What’s the good?"

"Well None of those things has happened, right?"

Only Booke would ask that, though I did give my arm-pits a tentative sniff "Nope"

"Then the spell ht have been interrupted when you fled the bed-and-breakfast"