Taken by my mate

Evadiene

When I returned to the office Covyn was gone but we snuck through to get to the library faster. Spencer had tried, seriously, to talk me out of bringing Sequoia but without a proper door to the bedroom, and her being bored as shit, I didn’t listen. We had used the balcony exit, now just a hole in the wall, stepping over the glass, to take her outside for some air after finding her trapped and terrified in the bathroom.

Now Spencer followed behind me as me and Sequoia weaved up and down the isles. The third isle over was empty and I could feel the familiar humm in the air of something I needed and tried to tune into the sound. My fingers danced or slid along the books and shelves like I was a spider feeling through these items to the one I sought.

I dropped suddenly to the bottom row, nearly causing Spencer to walk in to me, as I slid a single blue spine book out from between a row a brown ones and looked it over in my hands. The corners had metal bent over them that looked like flatten and folded coins and the gold lettering on the cover had been completely worn off. I smiled as I stood with the book, feeling the humm calm in my hands.

“Is there something specific you’re looking for?” Spencer asked, spying over my shoulder at the old tomb.

“I’ll know it when I feel it,” I smile, clutching the book to my chest and feeling the energy in the air.

Libraries were one of my favourite places to be. The air was always buzzing with items sought and now that I was older and more skilled I could narrow down the hum to the important ones. I could for feel another more like a thrum and continued to weave up and down.

In the next isle I stopped a third of the way down with my hand on a shelf. Sequoia had played this game before and leapt off my shoulders to scale the shelf. Spencer watched in shock as she climbed up carefully at my request.

“One more up please Coy… no more, more, yes I believe that one,” I relayed.

She flicked the book with her paw and I caught it rolling it over in my hands. The thrum wasn’t there and I looked back up to her.

“Sorry, you were right Coy, one more back.“ another book fell toward me and this time it felt like it was purring in my hands. “Good girl, come on.”

I bent slightly over, exposing my back, and she leapt down into it and then went back to lay around my neck over my shoulders.

“That’s a fancy trick?” Spencer complimented questionably.

I scratched her neck and her purring relaxed every nerve I forgot I had. “She’s very smart. Sequoia here has been my whole team for a long time,-“ she rubbed her face against mine and I smiled, “-we have found lots of treasures together.”

Spencer cautiously reached out and pet her, calming when she didn’t stop purring and pushed against his hand. “So how long did it take to teach her that trick?”

I shrugged. “I don’t remember, it was so long ago now.”

“What is she? Like six? Couldn’t be that long ago,” he assumed and I nodded.

“i guess she does look around six,” I returned carrying on.

He followed beside me. “Earlier you said you’d know it when you feel it… did you mean see it?”

“No,” I replied shortly, I never thought it would be him to start asking the right questions.

“What does that mean?” He pressed, and I found it hard to repress my smile.

“Like judging a book by the cover if your eyes didn’t work.” He glared at my stupid answer and I laughed. “Like… if you’re working in a shop, and you don’t know what kind of tool you need, but you can tell by being there were it isn’t. Some things give the right idea but won’t work, and other things could work for a different problem. The trick is finding what you need for the current situation among all the other needs.”

“That still doesn’t make sense,” he admitted.

I bumped him with my hip. “Maybe it’s because you’re a wolven and not like me.”

Before he could ask another question I heard the head librarian gasp loudly at me from across the room and run over. “Where did you find this book?”

She was gesturing emphatically to the blue book in my hands that I had found first. I smiled at her and watched her tag a sniff of me and jump back several feet, only then noticing the cat.

She bowed her head low showing me her neck and whispered, “I’m so sorry Luna, please forgive me.”

I approached her with a giggle at her worry and raised her by her shoulders. “Don’t worry, I too get excited over books.” She slowly raised her eyes and looked at me, Sequoia, and back to me where I held the book towards her. “You must have been looking for this one a long time.”

She cautiously reached for it and then looked at Spencer and paused. “Yes I have. It’s been missing for over a year. I was beginning to think one of our visitors had stolen it.”

“Take it,” I encouraged pushing it into her hands. “Read it, put it where it belongs, whatever you sought it for. If I need it, I’ll find it again.”

“Thank you Luna. You are too kind.” She accepted the book and turned to go.

“Wait,” I called, a sudden thought I needed to ask. “What is it called? The cover is worn bare.”

She smiled. “It is about the creation of our boarder.”

I returned her smile. “I’m sure I’ll be back for it.”