The change so exhausted me that Max and Lonna allowed me to crash out in the backseat of their rental car. It felt like I had just drifted off to sleep when we arrived at the crime scene tape-surrounded duplex, and I shook myself awake.
Veronica had loaned them some shovels from the fool’s gold display in her store, for which I was glad. I didn’t think I had the strength to dig. I showed them the spot, and Max held up a hand before Lonna could lower her shovel. I looked around, and my fur stood on end. It felt like something watched us.
“There’s something strange here, a spell or something that makes this the most uninteresting spot in the yard to a wizard.” He cleared the fallen leaves, and I sniffed, but all I could smell was the mixture of sharp autumn decay and dampness characteristi
