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Chase ather round He sat across from the boy but leaned back in his chair and stuck his hands in his pockets I knehat he was up to with his casual stance He was trying to diminish some of the authoritarian scare that cops held over kids

"Why don’t you introduce ave hi This is Tracy Smyth and her son, Sean Tracy, Sean, this is Detective Johnson--he’s the director of the Faerie-Huation unit Tracy is part ofcoven for teens"

Chase leaned forward, shook Tracy’s hand, and gave Sean a friendly nod "Thank you both for co this lanced at his mother, who tried to reassure him

"It’s okay Go on Tell him what you saw, honey" She patted his arm and he pulled away

"Mommmm, don’t call me that in public" He blushed Ah yes, the teen years FBHs had it hard when it came to hormones and puberty The Fae were born with theh our systems But that didn’t necessarily help us control them

"Your mother is just concerned, son Maybe cut her a little slack?" Chase flashed a sed, then cracked a smile of his own

"Yeah, okay Sorry, Mom"

"Now, suppose you tell me what you saw" Chase leaned forward and pulled a steno pad toward him as he took out a pen froe has told et in trouble You could help us a great deal if you’d tell us everything you witnessed One ofHe left a wife, and a daughter just about your age If you noticed anything, you couldus catch whoever did this"

Sean worried his lip for a raveyard--"

"Which one?"

"The Wedgewood Ceraveyard dirt Usually we have soht and needed to finish my homework for it" Sean’s voice started to even out a little as he spoke He stopped to take a swig of the soda, then wiped his mouth

"Homework Gets you every tiic?" Chase raised his eyebrows, and the kid visibly relaxed

"Yeah, sure does And Lindsey--Ms Cartridge--works us hard She’s tough--" He gulped and flashed Lindsey a sheepish se, but you know youby the hours, so I had to get up really early in the lancing up I couldn’t tell if he really wanted to knoas just trying to draw out Sean, but whatever the case, it worked

Sean war forward "See, there are specific parts of the day that relate to some spells, and you have to do the ithin that time period or youraveyard dirt That’s when I realized ere out of it We live near the cerab a handful"

"You know that dirt wouldn’t be consecrated and cleansed, Sean" Lindsey frowned at hionna do? You’d think I was shirking if I didn’t do ather what I needed And you always knoe’re fudging our answers about ho at the table

"Yes, but you can always use a substitute Re valerian, arden soil ork in a pinch" She tapped the table with her fingernails "Just remember that next time, okay?"

Sean ducked his head "Sorry, Ms C"

Chase cleared his throat "If we could leave the teaching till later?"

Lindsey blushed "Oh, geez, I’y "Not a probleo over to the ceraveyard dirt?"

Sean nodded "Yeah I threw on my jacket and ran over there There wasn’t anybody there, that I could tell at first, so I headed in to find an old grave--I didn’t want to disturb anybody who’d recently been buried, and the older the graveyard dirt, the better"

"Really? That’s interesting"

As I watched thereat father He had a ith kids that I didn’t really understand, but could appreciate Sharah’s baby was going to be well loved, at least over here Earthside Being half-breed and aits own set of proble his Coke between his hands "Yeah, the age of the dirt raves? Too chaotic Old graveyard dirt is h the cemetery and I heard some noises The sidewalk curved next to a really old cedar tree, and I heard so from around the tree I sneaked up behind the cedar I didn’t knoas going on, and it see" I gave hiered over ain and looked away quickly Yep Hormones

"Thanks Well, I peeked around the tree trunk, and I saw…" Here, Sean paled again, the ease fading out of his expression Frightened Rabbit was back

"Go on, tell Detective Johnson what you told me" Tracy reached out and put her hand on Sean’s ar…bodies…they looked like they were fro Dead There were several of theht hi him down and they were…" His voice cracked, and tears forrily and rested his fists on the table

"What were they doing, Sean? It’s okay to tell us" I leaned across the table and putinto him like he was a piece of uts! I could hear hile" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>