I asked, still staring at the black words. Kramisha had sat down heavily on her bed, all of a sudden looking almost as exhausted as Stevie Rae. She was shaking her head back and forth, back and forth, making her orange and black hair dance against her smooth cheeks. “It just come to me, like all ...
There is nothing here for you to fear.” Lina tore her eyes from the body that was decidedly not hers. A few feet from where she lay were two women. The one who had spoken was tall, thin and had gray hair that was pulled back into a severe knot. She stood beside the silent one. The silent one sat ...
Though not as powerful as Neferet, it was obvious that she'd practiced voice control and the silky sound of her words carried easily. We turned to the south and she approached the large red pillar candle among the other red ones, and I could feel what I was already recognizing as the power of the...
I knew you would find exactly what I needed. You may leave it on the table there, beside the door to the balcony. Oh, but please don’t go. My need for you is not finished. As you can see, here comes Kylee, right on time with the little group I asked her to fetch for me.” Neferet’s smile included ...
I feel just awful for her,” Venus said, gazing after the woman who had let out the tremendous belch.“She has extraordinarily bad hair,” Persephone said.“It’s not that bad. It’s just thick and curly and she hasn’t managed it properly.”“Please. It’s frizzy and awful. And what about those clothes?” ...
The only thing stopping her from acrobatics was the tray in her hands. More delicious-smelling herbs, flowers and those damn twiggy things she was forced to use to clean her teeth. “Hello, Mary,” she said, smiling at the young girl’s exuberance. “Good afternoon, mum!” Mary looked around for a pla...
I loathe the very thought of compiling my thoughts and actions in a locked book, secreted away as if they were precious jewels. I know my thoughts are not precious jewels. I have begun to suspect my thoughts are quite mad. That is why I feel compelled to record them. It could be that in the re-re...
They complement her dark hair well.” Venus arranged the silken drape of the stola that swathed Polyxena’s unnaturally still body. “Anything that brings you pleasure brings me pleasure, Goddess,” said a nearby satyr. “Yes, darling, I know. That’s why I wasn’t asking you. Now run along and finish w...
I was sure I’d heard him wrong.“Yeah, that’s what I said. I did it because of my gift.” Stark’s voice sounded cool, like what he’d said was no big deal, but his eyes said something else. The pain in them was so obvious that I had to look away. As if that pain was just as obvious to Duchess, the L...
Artemis told her brother as she watched a row of dowdy matrons pulling the arms of machines that twinkled and clacked and blared obnoxious things like “Wheel of Fortune.” “It is as if the shine and the glitter of the boxes casts a spell on them.” “Slot machines,” Apollo corrected her. Artemis gav...
The red fledglings were causing problems. Dallas hated Rephaim with an intensity that was simply lovely. Gaea was all in a tizzy about the lawn humans. So much so that she’d forgotten to lock the side maintenance gate and one of the street people who usually frequented Cherry Street had somehow b...
It was also that evening that Lenobia began to cough. She started feeling ill just after she returned to her quarters. At first she thought it was that she hated leaving Martin, and that the room that had seemed a sanctuary when Sister Marie Madeleine had been there now felt more like a prison. L...
Mikki told Asterius as they watched the Earth Elemental pass the word to her women that they were done for the day. “It’s obvious that you and she are becoming friends,” Asterius said. “Yes, we are,” she said, thinking that it was just as obvious that the Elemental was uncomfortable with her Empo...
CC opened her eyes slowly and was greeted by the sight of sparkling blue crystals. She shifted her body and stared around her, amazed at the beauty of the rocks. If laughter was a color, she thought, it would be this exact shade of blue. She reached out to touch the side of the cave with her perf...