Chapter 11
Faces in Crystal
Flanna was up with the sun and dressed while Zoe was still tangled in her sheets and snoring. She watched the driveway through the window above her bed until she saw Susan climb into her van and drive away, and then descended into the house. She didn’t like being here, but if she had to suffer the place, she preferred to do it alone when possible.
She didn’t feel comfortable immersing herself in the Conjuring Glass with Zoe there, and with nothing else to do but wait, Flanna decided to have a closer look at that silver tree and the crystal spheres.
She closed the living room curtains before drawing her wand, and spent the next half hour trying to tease the secret from the smiling faces trapped in the crystals, but they had no discernible magical properties.
