Blood, Milk & Chocolate - Part 1 (The Grimm Diaries Book 3) by Cameron Jace Page A

eat.
    "Eat
some food," Babushka demanded. "I made you a recipe that will help
quench your thirst for blood for some time."
    Fable
could sense slight tension between those two, who only had Loki in common.
Otherwise, they didn't seem on the same page at all.
    "How
do we get Loki's Fleece?" Shew said bluntly, not eating anything.
    "By
entering the Dreamworld," Babushka replied.
    Shew looked
puzzled, and Fable felt the same.
    "Why
not go get it from my mother?" Shew said.
    "I
have no idea why you say 'mother.'" Babushka rolled her eyes—only
once, so she wouldn't drop any eyeballs. "But if you have the guts to
confront her and get the Fleece, be my guest."
    Fable fell
silent. Babushka was right. Who dared speak to Carmilla? "Do you mean get
the Fleece from Loki in the Dreamworld?"
    Babushka
nodded, as if it were an easy task.
    "But
Loki is dead, even in the Dreamworld." Fable scratched her head. "At
least, this is how I understand it."
    Babushka
stopped eating, her eyes glaring at Shew for a moment. Fable thought she had to
release her anger. After all, Shew had killed her son in the Dreamworld, and
Babushka hadn't made a fuss about it until now.
    This is
really a weird family. Fable wondered if anything not weird was
going to happen today.
    "That's
why you need Charmwill's help in the Dreamworld," Babushka said. "Frankly,
I think there is something wrong with the timeline of events, but I can't prove
it. Only Charmwill can."
    "But
we can't resurrect him," Shew said. "Even while we know his True
Name."
    "We
don't need to resurrect him," Babushka said. "Not now, at least. We'll
use his name as an Incubator in the Dreamworld, just like Carmilla used the
Phoenix in the last dream, like you told me."
    "But
we don't know where this would take us," Shew said.
    "It
doesn't matter," Babushka said. "I'm sure Charmwill's real name will
take us to a memory where we meet Charmwill . He could guide us from
there. I am shocked why you haven't thought of this before."
    "Because
we don't know of any Dreamhunter but Loki," Fable said. "Do you
happen to know another Dreamhunter who can help?"
    Babushka
took some time to answer. She seemed reluctant to answer, gazing intently at
Fable. She finally nodded, though.
    "Then
please tell us how to meet this new Dreamhunter," Shew said.
    Babushka
put down the fork and knife, wiped her mouth, and stood up as if she were a
normal human being. She reached for Loki's Alicorn on the kitchen table and
looked at it. Neither Shew nor Fable understood the implication. "Before I
tell you about the Dreamhunter I know, I have to test something." She
handed the Alicorn to Fable. "Try it," she said.
    "Try
it?" Fable took the Alicorn, feeling attracted to it again. The whole
feeling of weirdness, that she wasn't herself, returned. "How?"
    "Say
what Loki would have said to make it work," Babushka said. "Say, 'Ora
Pedora.'"
    "But—"
    "Say
it."
    Fable
stared at the Alicorn for a while and held it the way she had held her
toothbrush in the mirror this morning. She took a deep breath, squinted, and
said, "Ora Pedora!"
    To
everyone's surprise, the Alicorn turned into a whipping snake, the same as when
Loki used it. Shew winced and pulled back from the snake, and Fable dropped the
Alicorn once she saw it. Babushka held the snake and patted it, then pulled it
back into the Alicorn.
    "But
how is that possible?" Shew stared at Fable.
    Fable
wanted to ask the same, but she couldn't find her voice from the surprise.
    "I
will tell you in a minute," Babushka said to Shew. "Fable, you said
you were also able to ignite Carmen this morning, right?"
    Fable
nodded.
    "And
you have been feeling weird, saying Loki's words and feeling a bit
boyish?"
    Fable
nodded again.
    "Great!"
Babushka clapped her hands. "It means there is hope we could save
Loki."
    "How
so?" Shew said, utterly confused.
    Fable
needed to know why, but her voice hadn't returned from the shock.
    "Simple,"
Babushka said. "Fable is our new Dreamhunter.

 
 

 
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