Part 29 (1/2)
”Psst! Over here!”
I went back to see what this was all about, but a little part of ?
So to kill me, weren't they?
It was impossible to see who it was
I continued to creep towards them And then he appeared
Pendderwenn
He looked anxious His eyes were bugging out When he put his hands on ht nowPendderas scaring ned astonishment He had both his hands on my arrabbythat was
”You're hurting ized profusely But he still didn't letif, whether or not, you have given any consideration to joining ht, Mr Pendderwenn,” I said ”Please, let o”
He seeht, but, still, we could use you Pendderwenn House would be right up your alley” He smiled at me His fake rub-on tan made him look like he was plastic
He looked into o
Halsey Pendderwenn
It didn't sound that bad In my head
”Heads are Houses,” said Pendderwenn, very wisely, ”and as I a us would be like a coup d'etat” Pendderwenn beamed ”So what d'you say?”
”Thank you I'll think about it,” I said
”nobody else is recruiting you, are they?” he said, as if he thought it was a long shot
”Well” Better to let hiht
”We would be twelve again IA full House, eh?” said Pendderwenn ”Eh, Miss Rookmaaker?”
”You mean you don't even have apartial House?” I said
He broke down entirely ”I' taken away froht there ”You can iine what they think”
”Honestly ,” I shook ulp of air, beco-eyed
”Paris, with all of their vichyssoise, they of course are happy,” he said, angrily ”They have always feared what the House of Rome could be! Then you have the other covens”
”They don't like you either?”
His shoulders shook
”What a great bore you must think me,” he said
”I think you could just use a vacation,” I said
A tear leaked froood one,” he said ”I said, Pendderwenn, I said, if there was ever an Initiate who could bring us back to the status we had so brieflyand it was ever so briefit would be that Miss Rookmaaker After all, her parents atchtowers Powerful Wiccans were Kinsey and Maximilian Rookmaaker, powerful, powerful” He trailed off
I stood dumbfounded
”You really knew them?” I said
But Pendderas still in a huff ”Knew them? Huh Not as well as soets around, Miss Rookmaaker It does indeed”
”Yes, but, it's just”
”Oh! My word! I forgot You never knew them, did you?” he said
My lip trembled somewhat; I noddeded
”I'm only a number two, re,” he said
He bade ht
”But wait!” I said ”Can't you tell ?”
Pendderwenn searched and searched in his head
”I really wouldn't knohere to begin,” he said ”Being Adept sucks”
He turned and left me
I raced back to h”