8
Hedgewitch Detective
For a second or two, I could only boggle at Sasha’s suggestion. Then I managed to gather myself and said, “I’m not a detective. I just had a little luck piecing the evidence together in those two murders. And really, in the case of Lilith Black, the killer basically confessed the whole crime to me, so it wasn’t as though I had to do any kind of real work to figure out who was guilty.”
This demurral didn’t seem to have much effect on Sasha Young. She crossed her arms and stared at me directly as she said, “Well, I can’t rely on Chief Lewis. He’s just another authoritarian with a buzz cut. He doesn’t even want to entertain the possibility that there might be a supernatural element to all this.”
Since I couldn’t really argue with her assessment of Henry Lewis, I fig
