I don't own the Characters from Kim Harrisons books just the ones i added.

Chapter .2. Turtle and tease

I'm 23 yep 23 and I live alone my best friend is a pixy and I have almost no contact with my family. Some times I will go visit my parents but all the other relations tend to show up and so I've started visiting with no notice at all and only staying for a short period of time.

Majen however visited often because her garden was inside and so not likely to have a trio of faeries take over while she's gone. It's the end of January and so it's cold still but ever now and then there is a day that is almost spring like and Majen always takes those days to visit her folks and family.

Cinnamon that's what Majen always smelled like after visiting her sister and that's what I smelled faintly over her grassy field smell. Majen was explaining all the necessary steps of a ward for protection. "why do I need to steal it again?" I asked with a piece of plant that was supposed to work better if stolen according to Majen between my fingertips.

"How should I know I'm not a witch I'm a pixy, and you should be writing a thank you note to my sister." she always got defensive and bossy in a motherly sort of way when she didn't know something, I guess it's like stick to what you know?

"do it before the next warm enough day so I can give it to her then and if you want to make a good impression buy some seeds for her garden." Majen said as she gathered all the stuff we needed.

We went through all the steps twice before she'd let me try to make one batch I mean there was a slight chance I could set the place on fire and then we both would be out on the street but come on I was really good at stirring a charm what did she think I was going to do? Mess up on purpose?

Later after I had made 6 I started to put them up around the garden wall. They look like little round discs of wood like most charms do but this one was harder because it was an earth charm with a leyline charm in the middle which looks like a pentagram but not.

I cant really say what it looks like because it looks like it. When I invoked the first charm I got that strong Scent of redwood all witches get when the spell is working, see I can make a charm better then some people my age but I also had to tap a line and got the stale metallic zing of ever-after I don't like that much.

I placed them up one at a time until they were all up. The way it worked was if the person trying to get in meant you harm it would deter them like bug repellent. Bug repellent for guys who wanted to cause you any kind of distress. I was just able to make it inside the kitchen for a breakfast before class.

On the way to class I ate a sweet tomato don't know how they can get them this red in winter but it was sweet and red and juicy. The humans on the bus turned Round and round hehe, they all looked pale because a tomato was the cause of the turn.

Some geneticist made a really big mistake and infected a new kind of tomato with a deadly virus that killed off a very large part of human population and even more of the Elvin population due to their mixing with humans for so long.