Chapter 48The day just got better and better. It really did. "Smooth sailing" all the way.
Laurel's ceremony was beautiful. Everyone took a break from their work and turned out for it. Phaola and her fellow nymphs filled the sky with rainbows and glittering showers of rain that evaporated before it hit the crowd. Laurel cried when Solomon draped a necklace of kaleidoscopic shape-shifting pearls around her throat and pronounced her the newest member of Parapets and Groundswell. The crowd lavished their applause and attention on her, which was fine by me; it gave me a chance to slip away and check the ley line network for the killer.
I found no trace of him, which was also fine by me. Every time I searched and came up empty, it reinforced my hope that Parapets was clean. That the k
