9
Solstice
Somewhere inside, I’d harbored the fear that people still wouldn’t show up, despite how many tickets I’d given out. It seemed like just the sort of trick Lilith Black would play on me — to have her followers dutifully troop over to the store to get their admission to my solstice ritual, only to make sure they’d all be over at her own ceremony, leaving me with a pile of uneaten food on the tables Chuck had set out…and a whole mess of egg on my face.
And unfortunately, my gut seemed to have been correct. Travis was ready and waiting to park cars, but the only one that appeared was Josie’s red Cadillac sedan, which bumped its way across the pasture and seemed vaguely annoyed by being subjected to such an indignity.
She got out, gingerly making her way along the path that Chuck
