Page 142 of Sigils & Spells

H.P. jerked back with a loud hiss, did a flip mid-air and landed on his feet between the two tables.

Chester kept yowling and H.P. let out a mimicking yowl, then leapt back onto the table, raced around the carrier to the front and stared inside, yowling the entire time.

“Why are they doing that?” Pippa called, pitching her voice to carry over the cacophony.

“How would I know?” Jared shouted back. “I thought you were the expert.”

“I just found the kitten this morning!” Pippa leaned closer to the wolf. “Your cat’s much older. You probably know a lot more than me.”

“Not likely,” Jared said. “I just adopted him an hour ago.”

“Great,” Pippa muttered.

For a few moments, the only sounds in the diner were that of the two cats serenading each other, but with so many wolves present, what happened next was inevitable.

One wolf let out a loud howl, then another wolf joined in, then another.

Within moments, every wolf in the diner was howling,includingJared.

“Oh my goddess,” Pippa muttered.

Any moment now—

Yep. There went the first wolf.

Clothes fell to the floor in shreds as one wolf after another burst free from their human forms and then—

Dear Goddess, they were chasing their own tails.

So freaking predictable.

Thankfully, most of the humans had left in the aftermath of the spider incident, though Starlight was still working, and interestingly didn’t seem too terribly surprised to see so many of her patrons shift into their wolf forms.

Pippa eyed Jared, hoping to get an eyeful whenheshifted, but apparently, he had better control than the other wolves in the diner.

“I can’t stand it,” Amaryllis shouted. “It’s too much!”

Oh, crap.

Pippa whirled to face Amari. “Just hang on. We’ll leave and you can—“

Too late.

Pippa’s hair blew back as Amari’s magic whipped past in a frenzy.

It landed in the middle of the room and exploded like a bomb, sending sex magic everywhere.

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“What the heck just happened?”Bygul demanded.

“Oh, my,” Tivali said, wide eyed as she stared down at the people in the diner.

“That vampire just carried off the human waitress,” Soraya observed.

“Oh, dear,” Tivali said. “Do you think she’ll be okay?”

“Who cares about the human?” Bygul said impatiently. “Did anyone see where the kitten went? Or our witch?”

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