Musing and Realizing

To win this fight, I’ll need the help of my friends. First, I’ll need to convince them I’m only dead some of the time.

Here’s the thing about supernatural cleanup I make it look like work because that’s how I get paid. But, honestly, it’s easy. I show up, act friendly, get my client out of the way and then do my Veil Witch thing. Until the day comes when, just as I’m about to eject a ghost, I suddenly become one. Yeah, kind of confusing, seeing as the last time I checked I wasn’t dead.

At least, that’s what I thought but I soon learn otherwise. Somehow, I’ve become no longer physical. Like that’s not enough to freak me out completely, I discover that other things have changed. My sister and best friend, for example. As witches, they can both see me, but one no longer knows me and one acts like she wishes she didn’t. When all seems lost, I finally decide to take that ride through the big old tunnel of light, my expectation being to head off into the afterlife. Instead, I get spit out into Faerie where I’m once again very much alive. Yep, I’m definitely happy, but I’m also confused since things in this realm still seem the same. Or so I think until everything from the weather to the wildlife start acting like they’re possessed. As it turns out, they are, by someone who just laid claim to an ancient and malevolent power. The same someone who went back in time to have me erased. To set things right again may be impossible, but one thing is for sure. I don’t stand a chance without the help of my Shadow Order friends. The problem being, to them I either never existed or I’m already dead.

The good news is my friends now realize I’m only dead in their realm. The bad news is we may all soon be dead in this one.

As a Veil Witch, by now I thought I’d seen it all. Vampires, dark witches, poltergeists, body snatchers and demons. Not to mention the realms of both the Fae and the Half-Fae. So, why has no one ever mentioned Elves? I’m not talking about those cute little munchkins hanging out in the North Pole. I mean the bloodthirsty ones who serve as soldiers to an evil and murderous king. Thankfully, it’s also an Elf who takes our side when everything seems lost. Her name is Lianthra and she knows who we’re up against and why.

Now, the witches of the Shadow Order are faced with multiple missions. First, we need to rescue Revlen from where she’s being held prisoner in the realm of Alfheim. Then we need to recapture the Triplex Dea talismans so we can bring Esras back from the dead. As if that’s not enough on our shared magical plate, we need to find a way to break a blood curse cast long ago by a demented Fae princess. But for any of that to stick, we’ll need to defeat an enemy possessing magical powers the likes of which we’ve never seen. By which I mean the same twisted soul who used her magic to erase my past and just used it again to trap us all in a city kingdom turned into an island under siege. There I was thinking that having been granted a new life in this realm would allow me the time needed to pull off this mission. Instead, it looks like we better start hoping we’re all granted new lives in a third realm.