So he keeps the grimoire in the supernatural world and wards against other supernatural creatures. He has other ways to keep humans away. If your son could see it, it’s because he’s human. Myrddin is careful with his book. Other witches can’t see it either. I couldn’t see it. The only human he specifically warded it against was your father, and you know why he did that.”
Because my father was an excellent thief. He would be the single human Myrddin worried about. So Lee was our only hope if something went wrong.
“I don’t know, Zoey. Dev has a point.” Daniel had started pacing. “I don’t like the idea of all three pieces he needs being in one place at one time.”
“If Myrddin gets the sword and the grimoire, he might not need Zoey. He’s brilliant. He’ll find a way to release the power and Hell will reign on the Earth plane,” Nim said, her tone grim. “Everything changes if demons are allowed to roam freely. All the rules will be gone, and this plane will never be the same. Once they take this plane, they’ll look to take others, and Myrddin will be the bridge.”
“We’re not going to have a better time than this meeting. We’ll know where he is. If we give him longer, he’ll figure out Nim is gone, and he’ll likely find a way to blame me. He’ll definitely know we have a way in, and he’ll plug that hole in his security. He’ll also take a closer look at everyone around him, and that means we could lose our spies. If we wait too long, the wards could fail.” I wanted to get this job done and fast. I didn’t want to give him a single extra second to find a way out of Sarah’s trap.
And I wanted to get in that apartment to see if I could find her. I wanted to see if she’d left me anything more than the bag. If she’d had any time at all, she would have left clues, a note, anything that would help me find her.
I’d once saved her from the Hell plane. I wasn’t about to let a little thing like her disappearing into time and space stop me, and she would know that.
I’d lost my father, but I had a chance to save my friend and her family, to bring back the girl my son had always loved.
I wasn’t going to fuck it up.
“So how do we grow that body of yours back?” It would be weird to have her head hang around. A fully limbed Nimue would likely be more effective an ally. If we couldn’t grow it back for some reason, I would have to find a nice mannequin body for her. I could dress her up.
“So you’ll go get the bag?” Nim asked. I nodded and a sigh of relief huffed from her lips. “Thank the goddess. I don’t want to see what a bunch of demons would do with my head. They like to bowl, you know. Now let’s talk about getting me to a nice chilly lake. I need it isolated and deep because I do not want someone coming across my body while it’s growing back and starting some true crime documentary. Toss me in the deepest part, and in a few months I should be ready to fight.”
“First, you can answer a couple of questions for me.” I had been thinking about this since the moment Myrddin had stared out of the window in the café. He’d looked at Dean with…some unnamed emotion. It wasn’t fear, but I thought fear was in there. “What do you know about Myrddin sending a pregnant woman off the plane?”
Before Nim could answer, Lee strode in, Dean at his side.
“Mom, I know you’re in… Whoa.” Lee stopped in front of Nim. “That is a head in a box.”
“You look exactly like your father.” Nim’s face had lit up. “Well, except the eye. You must be the little human one. Lee, right?”
Lee’s eye widened and it stayed on Nim. “Mom, why is the head talking to me?”
It was good to know something could still freak my boy out. “The Hidden Ones brought me back a present. Meet Nimue.”
Lee took a step back as if the head might attack. “But she’s with Myrddin.”
“Nope. She was being controlled like your dads, and when she got out of thrall, he cut her head off and put it in this box.” I gave Nim a sympathetic shrug. “It’s