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eating pancakes for lunch, but I didn’t care. There is no bad time of the day for blueberry syrup.
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    The trip to the museum didn’t go as well. Even though we had fun, none of the rock and mineral specimens on display in the museum had any effect on the gold in Corey’s aura. The pyrite made his entire aura look bigger and the sphalerite (or maybe the quartz) increased the amount of gold. We gave up and headed back home.
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    As we got close, I gave Fiona a call. She and Rose were catching up on work at the store she owned in the heart of Berkeley Springs, the Queen of the Night Boutique. We headed there instead of the cabin. We hid out in the Jeep until the store closed so no one saw Corey. After Fiona locked the front door, we smuggled him in the back.
    Corey’s had never visited the store, so I showed him around. We looked at all of the herbs and herbal remedies in the herb shop. I showed him the books, DVDs, CDs and associated items in the bookshop. We skipped past Fiona’s secret room which contained supplies for magical rituals and her treatment-slash-exam facility for treating people with energy touch therapy. I promised to get Fiona to show it to him later, when she wasn’t so busy. Lastly, we went down to the jewelry and clothes section of the store, since I thought he’d enjoy them best. Corey browsed and I looked at t-shirts. Evan joined us.
    “Whoa,” he said.
    “What?” Corey and I looked up in unison.
    “Corey, take two steps back.” 
    Corey did as Evan ordered.
    “Now, take two steps forward.”
    “I’m not going to dance with you.”
    “Just do it. Honestly, you Stewart kids are impossible to work with.”
    “Hey!” I said, offended.
    Corey complied.
    Evan looked at me. “Did you see that?”
    “Did I see what?”
    “Maggie,” he was getting exasperated. “Look at him.”  I opened my healer vision and focused on my brother. His aura had only a faint glimmer of gold.
    “Cool!” I exclaimed, “Corey, step back.”
    He sighed heavily but stepped back. The gold haze flared to life.
    “What’s going on?” Fiona walked into the room.
    “It’s the geodes and spheres. They’re affecting his aura. What’s in them, Fi?”
    “It could be a combination of all kinds of minerals,” she shrugged. She pulled a large blue ball-shaped rock down from the shelf. She held it next to Corey.
    “Yeah, that’s it.”  Evan and I said at the same time.
    “Hmmm,” Fiona looked over the object, “This one is mostly lapis lazuli, I think.”
    “What we need is a collection of all different minerals and rocks in one place. We need each sample to be pure. Where can we find that?” I asked.
    “Doesn’t the Smithsonian have like the largest collection in the world of different rocks, gems and minerals?” Fiona asked.
    “Yes, but they’re all behind glass cases with heavy security,” Evan noted.
    “Oh, right.”
    “Why don’t you just go to that bead store in Hagerstown?” Rose had entered the room and had heard the tail end of our conversation.
    “What a wonderful idea,” agreed Fiona, “You can go first thing tomorrow,” she added.
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    The five of us went to the yellow house next. Fi and Rose called it the ‘town house’. I was pleasantly surprised when Ginger and Rock greeted us at the door.
    Fiona explained, “I thought you guys could use a bit of help around here. Rock and Ginger have wanted privacy for a while, so I asked them if they would like to live here.”
    Everyone looked at me expectantly, as if I had any say in the matter. It occurred to me Ginger and Rock must be an item. How sweet . “What a wonderful idea.” 
    Everyone smiled.
    Corey wasted no time making himself at home. He went straight to the kitchen.
    I followed to chastise him with sharp words about how there’d been no time to do grocery shopping. I never got the chance. The kitchen table was set with leftovers from Fiona’s Christmas dinner. The Brownies had even lit a couple of candles. Once