Surprisingly, it was not the forest that caused the most adrenalin-rich moments of this chase ( Read more... )

We find another cottage which is a surprise to me. I would expect the land around here to be quite deserted. Still, it helps our investigation. Things clearly originated here. There is a pentagram drawn in the snow, with Scandinavian runes around it. Droplets of dark blood can be seen at each tip of the star. Red-orange fire is burning bright in ( Read more... )

We catch up with the shooter right after she pulls the trigger ( Read more... )

“Wanna go hiking?”
“Can’t. I’m in Canada for the next three weeks. Long story.”
“Which city?”
“Toronto.”
“Wanna go up north? My friend has a cottage in Killarney. Nice house on a lake, I’ve been there for his stag party. Wanna go?”
“Sure. Send me the addressI like Toronto well enough, a bustling, buzzing city of many nations and cuisines borrowed ( Read more... )

Горячие бутерброды, розовые скалы, красивые виды, интересные разговоры - все это наконец накопилось, перелилось через край и синтезировалось в очередное приключение Ёжика и Дейрдре.

И, конечно, грибы. Грибы послужили триггером. А триггеры нас учили ловить и разрабатывать.

***

“Wanna have a picnic? I’ll get hot sandwiches.”By this time, I’m used ( Read more... )

( An unexpected call )

“What do you have here?” Ingrid asks.

( Ingrid )

The next time we hear a voice, it’s right behind us ( Read more... )

It’s an experience I can never forget - and don’t usually care to repeat - the sensation of my body mending itself right in the middle of strenuous physical work. I trip, I fall, I roll head over heels, only to jump back on my feet and run further. This crazy flight down the steep slope should have left me with a broken nose, scraped knees and ( Read more... )

“I can come out to meet them,” I say. “I am Hexenfluch.”
“You are a woman,” Hedgehog says darkly, “who just emerged, alone, out of the place where they killed something supernatural. They may shoot you first, and ask questions later.”

I grimace as his words ring true.

( Plans and reality )