Chapter 183

• “So, we’re to stay out here, unprotected. While you swan off and do, God knows what? Like sitting fucking ducks, just patiently trusting you! You, who has given us nothing at all even to trust!” that wolfish aggression comes through in waves of oozing anger, and her eyes glow even brighter as her temper explodes.
• “You’re not very gracious or grateful for people seeking my help and towing themselves across the country. What do you think will happen to you here that won’t in your truck, protected by MY magic? Do you think a secondhand spell carried out by a half-witch is more effective than any I have in place here?” She smirks and gestures around us with an airy-fairy wave of her hands. “Safe as houses and a little warmer than a steel box. I’ll be back before sunrise with a guest or two. So be awake, ready to go, and have a more hospitable attitude because he isn’t the type to take any kind of rudeness and dismiss it as graciously as I’ve done. You’re lucky I’m in a good mood with a solution to an issue I’ve been agonizing over, and you happen to be important to someone up there.” She points upwards at the appearing stars in the velvet blanket of sky, gaining a squint from me, a confused frown from Carmen, and more intrusive verbals from Meadow.
• “Meaning?” she interjects harshly, eyes still not simmering down to normal, and I’m getting the vibe that none of us are warming to this witch at all. She’s a strange one with an aura of something that makes you not trust her, but you can’t quite put your finger on it, even if her words are telling you that it’s not true.