Eve and glanced at the television. ‘Look at those vultures.’ More reporters had joined the scene. Eve spotted Trench among them. They were all trying to find students and teachers who would talk to them.
‘Doesn’t sound like there’s any new information,’ her dad said as the reporter began repeating the basic facts again. ‘Your parents know you’re here, don’t they?’ he asked Jess.
‘Yup,’ Jess said.
‘Good. Otherwise they’d be frantic.’ He looked at Eve. ‘Your mom’s on her way home too.’
‘Mom’s coming home early?’ Eve asked in surprise. Both her parents had high-powered jobs. She hardly ever had both of them home in time for dinner, although they tried hard to make sure one of them was.
‘She’s worried. Two deaths in two weeks in our little town. With no real idea what’s happened.’ He shook his head, then got up. ‘I’m making my famous mac and cheese. You staying, Jess? You’re very welcome.’
‘Thanks, Mr Evergold. That would be great,’ Jess called after him as he headed for the kitchen.
Eve clicked the TV off. ‘We can check in a little while to see if they’ve figured out anything new. We should hit the computer and keep looking for creatures that match the attacks, even though we don’t have super-detailed information.’
‘What key words should we try this time?’ Eve asked when they were up in her bedroom, settled at thecomputer. At least her power surges were more under control. She’d stopped shorting out electronics, which she’d done almost non-stop for the first few weeks after her Deepdene Witch powers had manifested.
‘How about … “demon attack with bites”?’ Jess suggested.
Eve typed the words into Google and started skimming through the results. ‘A lot of these deal with the mysterious appearance of bite marks on a person. Claw marks too. But I’m not seeing anything where the attack was so bad that somebody died.’ She tapped her fingers lightly on the keyboard. ‘I’m going to try “supernatural deaths”.’
‘Sometimes I can’t believe we’re doing the things we do,’ Jess said. ‘Like this. Trying to identify what supernatural being is murdering people in our town.’
‘I know.’ Eve scanned the new results. ‘The whole first page is all about that show Supernatural . There was an episode called “Death Takes a Holiday”.’ She clicked to go to the next page. ‘More stuff about the show.’
Jess peered over Eve’s shoulder. ‘It’s telling us we could also try “ mysterious supernatural deaths”,’ she pointed out.
‘Is there any other kind?’ Eve started the newsearch. ‘Here’s one about a hospital where every patient who was in a certain bed on a Friday morning – every Friday morning – died.’
‘Creepy. Any bites or claw marks?’
‘No.’ Eve gave a snort of disgust. ‘It says when the hospital set up surveillance they saw a cleaning woman go into the room and unplug the life-support system so she could plug in the vacuum.’
‘That sounds like an urban legend. Not helpful,’ Jess said.
‘So not helpful, and so stupid,’ Eve agreed. She returned to the results. More stuff about Supernatural the show. Some entries about the movie The Grudge . Didn’t anyone care about real life?
‘Oooh. Here’s a blog about supernatural stuff.’ Jess tapped the screen, and Eve clicked on the link. Which, for some bizarre reason, took them to a site with a list of local dry-cleaners.
‘You don’t think something is trying to stop us from finding out what we need to know, do you?’ Jess asked.
‘I don’t think a demon has taken possession of my computer so it can keep us from searching the Net, if that’s what you’re asking.’
‘It was. And you never know,’ Jess said.
‘Eve, Jess, dinner!’ Eve’s mom called before Eve could reply.
‘It’s just the Internet as usual,’ Eve said. ‘You always get weird hits when you do a search. Nothing supernatural about
‘Doesn’t sound like there’s any new information,’ her dad said as the reporter began repeating the basic facts again. ‘Your parents know you’re here, don’t they?’ he asked Jess.
‘Yup,’ Jess said.
‘Good. Otherwise they’d be frantic.’ He looked at Eve. ‘Your mom’s on her way home too.’
‘Mom’s coming home early?’ Eve asked in surprise. Both her parents had high-powered jobs. She hardly ever had both of them home in time for dinner, although they tried hard to make sure one of them was.
‘She’s worried. Two deaths in two weeks in our little town. With no real idea what’s happened.’ He shook his head, then got up. ‘I’m making my famous mac and cheese. You staying, Jess? You’re very welcome.’
‘Thanks, Mr Evergold. That would be great,’ Jess called after him as he headed for the kitchen.
Eve clicked the TV off. ‘We can check in a little while to see if they’ve figured out anything new. We should hit the computer and keep looking for creatures that match the attacks, even though we don’t have super-detailed information.’
‘What key words should we try this time?’ Eve asked when they were up in her bedroom, settled at thecomputer. At least her power surges were more under control. She’d stopped shorting out electronics, which she’d done almost non-stop for the first few weeks after her Deepdene Witch powers had manifested.
‘How about … “demon attack with bites”?’ Jess suggested.
Eve typed the words into Google and started skimming through the results. ‘A lot of these deal with the mysterious appearance of bite marks on a person. Claw marks too. But I’m not seeing anything where the attack was so bad that somebody died.’ She tapped her fingers lightly on the keyboard. ‘I’m going to try “supernatural deaths”.’
‘Sometimes I can’t believe we’re doing the things we do,’ Jess said. ‘Like this. Trying to identify what supernatural being is murdering people in our town.’
‘I know.’ Eve scanned the new results. ‘The whole first page is all about that show Supernatural . There was an episode called “Death Takes a Holiday”.’ She clicked to go to the next page. ‘More stuff about the show.’
Jess peered over Eve’s shoulder. ‘It’s telling us we could also try “ mysterious supernatural deaths”,’ she pointed out.
‘Is there any other kind?’ Eve started the newsearch. ‘Here’s one about a hospital where every patient who was in a certain bed on a Friday morning – every Friday morning – died.’
‘Creepy. Any bites or claw marks?’
‘No.’ Eve gave a snort of disgust. ‘It says when the hospital set up surveillance they saw a cleaning woman go into the room and unplug the life-support system so she could plug in the vacuum.’
‘That sounds like an urban legend. Not helpful,’ Jess said.
‘So not helpful, and so stupid,’ Eve agreed. She returned to the results. More stuff about Supernatural the show. Some entries about the movie The Grudge . Didn’t anyone care about real life?
‘Oooh. Here’s a blog about supernatural stuff.’ Jess tapped the screen, and Eve clicked on the link. Which, for some bizarre reason, took them to a site with a list of local dry-cleaners.
‘You don’t think something is trying to stop us from finding out what we need to know, do you?’ Jess asked.
‘I don’t think a demon has taken possession of my computer so it can keep us from searching the Net, if that’s what you’re asking.’
‘It was. And you never know,’ Jess said.
‘Eve, Jess, dinner!’ Eve’s mom called before Eve could reply.
‘It’s just the Internet as usual,’ Eve said. ‘You always get weird hits when you do a search. Nothing supernatural about
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