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“I try.” I smiled innocently.
“I wouldn’t give up my day job or anything, but hey, you’ll be able to tell some cracking bedtime stories.” He looked me up and down. “If you aren’t already?”
I paused for a moment, not understanding. Until I did. “Er. No. No sprogs.”
“That you are aware of.” He wiggled his eyebrows.
I frowned, slightly insulted. “What does that mean?”
He waved his hand in a “oh, stop being silly, I’m joking” way and said, “It means, cousin, you are a pretty boy and probably get a lot of action.”
“Not nearly enough,” I scoffed, thinking about how Clawdia stared at Zaide this morning.
He laughed. “I feel that.” He nodded in the direction that Lydia had disappeared. “You and Lydia were a thing?”
“Yeah.” And the shudders I had been repressing overcame me. “Why?”
He continued with a cheeky grin, “You know she uses beauty potions, right?”
My grin fell straight off my face. “You’re fucking joking.”
“Nope.”
I stared open-mouthed. “I knew she looked ugly today. I just thought it was the not sleeping with her thing.”
“I mean, that makes it worse, but yeah, we can’t use magic until tonight.”
“You rule breaker, you.”
“That was important. Anyway, this whole ceremony gives me the creeps.”
I let out a huge sigh.
Yes! He’s not a soulless prick!
“Thank fuck. When Lydia explained, I was like, ‘That is the worst thing I’ve ever heard.’ She thinks talking to you might help me understand.”
He nodded and whispered, “Don’t get me wrong, I know why it needs to be done, and I understand the privilege of getting chosen to be part of history, but it’s still a bit fucked. I’m not going to lie to you about that.”
“I’m still not clear on that part. Why does it need to be done?”
“The people going missing at the moment are being taken by otherworlders through a portal. The protector can stop portals being opened to our realm.”
They really think they are going to help save people.I didn’t know if it was true or not, whether the protector could do what they thought, but they believed in it so wholeheartedly that there wouldn’t be any reasoning with them. To them, we were the baddies.
Simon wasn’t soulless, but he was still agreeing that destroying one race of people to save another was right. That human lives were more important. I didn’t want to think that made him a bad person, and so I tried not to judge my new family too harshly.
Changing the subject, I said, “So, when are you going tonight?”
“The ceremony starts this evening at about eight o’clock when it gets dark. It’ll last until the moon reaches its highest peak, and then he will rise,” he finished in a Frankenstein voice that made me laugh.
“Gross.” I shuddered.
He nodded. “Super gross.”
“And where is this happening?” I could hear Daithi in the back of my head, demanding I ask more questions, but I needed to play this casually so I didn’t raise suspicion.
Simon frowned, and he pushed his glasses back up his nose. “Charlie, I like you, dude. For my new cousin, you’re all right. But you don’t know anything about being a witch. I don’t think you should be there tonight.”
