OK…decided to extend this story because of the positive feedback. Charlie Seen you are too kind. Please note that Lythia Harpen is in fact my sorceress name, but Melissa isn't. Leaving you wondering there.
But anyway. Enjoy.
Ghastly laughed as he watched Fletcher walk into the cinema with Valkyrie. Fletcher had asked him to be their chauffer and he'd obliged, because he wasn't going to make Valkyrie walk. Or Fletcher, for that matter.
It had been five days since his encounter with Lythia, and Ghastly was still puzzled. He pulled away from the movie theatre and grinned as his cell phone, on the dashboard, lit up and the 'King of the Hill' theme tune began to play. He pulled over again and answered it. So Tanith had remembered to ring.
"Hello?" Ghastly said.
"Hi, Ghastly." Ghastly could almost imagine Tanith smiling into the phone.
"Still in London?" he inquired.
"Yup," Tanith answered. Then, a hint of worry entered her voice. "Dusk escaped. We're tracking him down."
Ghastly froze. "He's coming after Val?"
"That's my assumption."
"Oh God."
"Exactly what I said."
"What can we do?" Ghastly was panicking slightly. Then a thought dawned on him…
"Tanith," he said. "Make your way to Ireland. I will enlist the help of somebody I met not too long ago. She's powerful. She can help us with Dusk."
"Whatever it takes."
"OK. And, Ghastly?"
"Yes?"
"Don't tell Valkyrie. She's really busy. Wreath's putting a lot of pressure on her. We'll get this thing sorted out by ourselves."
"Agreed."
With that, Ghastly fare welled her and hung up. Cursing, he pressed his forehead to the steering wheel for a couple of seconds. Then he leaned back, restarted the engine and drove off.
He needed to get in contact with Lythia. And soon.
Ghastly made his way home and thought about where she might be. Or what he could do to make her reappear. His mind struck gold and he spoke the words aloud:
"I, Ghastly Bespoke, love Lythia Harpen."
It worked. There was a brilliant flash of light and there, suspended in mid-air, was Lythia, in all her radiance. Her blue eyes were full of sapphire flames.
"You said it," she breathed.
Ghastly wondered how he was going to get out of this one…
