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we’d better go.”
    We had been lucky, I guess, to fall where there weren’t a lot of people to notice our “miraculous” survival. Or the sight of a helicopter being tossed about in the sky . The n the distant sound of sirens reached my ears. On second thought, maybe someone had notice d . I picked up my pace ; after my last encounter with the police , when Ashling first went missing, the last thing I wanted was to deal with them now that I’d been in a helicopter crash that I’d survived without a scratch.
    Feet slipping in the wet sand, and then in the loose gravel closer to the road, I kept up a quick pace.
    “What about me?” Darcy yelled after us .
    Turning to face her I lifted both eyebrows. “What about you?”
    “Are you just going to leave me here?”
    I nodded once. “Yup.” With my back once more to her I headed towards the road.
    “Are you really just going to leave her t here?” Luke said, catching up with me.
    Again I nodded. “She’ll be fine, she always is. She’s never needed me or Ashling. ” At one point in my life, speaking that truth would have hurt; it would have made all the old wounds open back up. But not now . W hatever relationship w e’d had was over and done with.
    Darcy followed at a distance, backing off a little whenever I turned to glare at her. It was a bit like shooing away a stray animal that thought you had something for it to eat. More than anything else now, it was just irritating. Then again, I did want to know what the hell had happened on the helicopter ; why Darcy had seen Balor and the Banshee Queen, and how she had show n me .
    We slogged through the rocks and rough pampas grass, then we finally scrambled up on to the road . Staring up and down the road , I stopped as I tried to pl ace where we were. It seemed familiar, but there are a lot of backwater roads on the east coast of Vancouver Island. “I think we’ re close to a gas station. There’s one up the road if I’m remembering right .” I glanced over my shoulder, catching Darcy’s eye. “Try to keep up , ” I said.
    Within a few moments of walking, we could indeed see a gas station in the distance. The red and yellow sign shimmer ed in the heat waves that rose off the blacktop , the angle of the hill so steep it looked as though the sign was only a few feet off the ground . It was probably a half hour walk, all uphill.
    My clothes were starting to seriously itch as t he salt water dried on my skin, but that wasn’t really what was bothering me. I paused in our walk, waiting for Darcy to catch up to us. “ You showed me something, in the helicopter ; how did you do that?”
    Her eyes darted sideways. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
    My eyebrows lifted of their own accord. “Really? So the whole rocking about, holding your head, crying that you didn’t want to see anything. . . . that was nothing ?”
    Lips tightening , she continued to look away from me. I poked her in the arm. “Darcy, stop lying to me. How did you show me Balor and the Banshee Queen?”
    Cora and Luke gasped in unison, giving me a nice stereo affect. Luke recovered first. “Wait, what?”
    “Yes, I’d like to know exactly what ’ s going on, Darcy , ” Cora said, her tongue flicking out towards my mom.
    Darcy squared her shoulders, but her voice shook and her body quivered. “I didn’t see anything, I don’t know what you are talking about. Now leave me the hell alone.” She spun on her heel and strode back down the hill, her hand out , thumb extended to the vehicles passing by.
    Luke called out after her, tried to get her to come back, he even tried to Charm her. The effect of it , though, was lost on her retreating figure. I watched her go. It was no surprise to me that she left as soon as I questioned her. Just like always, she ran the minute things got hard, when she might have to do the difficult thing. Like be honest with her daughter. As we watched, an older BMW pulled over and she jumped in,