and a wolf will move among the lambs

[impetuous_force]

It's that afternoon after school when Bella next visits the Witchnook. (She already made another nighttime visit to pick up her powder, and it's safely stashed under the false bottom in the box full of notebooks under her bed.) This time she just needs beetle wings and a reasonably clear chunk of quartz. Her books and the goldvine bramble she ordered aren't in yet.

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[eversomuchfun]

"Of course you would," he says, but he puts in the order.

[impetuous_force]

There's really no point trying to hide what she wants it for from this guy, is there. "Someone could get the gem away from you," she points out, "or you could decide to return it and go capering off into the night."

[eversomuchfun]

He snorts. "Yes."

[impetuous_force]

She checks out the window again.

The cop car is gone.

"Later," she says over her shoulder to Sherlock, and out she goes.