24. Secrets and Spies

(MELI)

Lissa and I spent the whole day talking, and then we walked along the busy streets of the market square. I could smell the scent of perfume, herb and incense floating in the air.

Every shop boasted herbs, potions, animal parts, magical artefacts and strange baubles.

I stopped in front of a cart and stared at the mystic cupcakes. It had a frosting like a magical universe and my mouth watered. Usually Melvorians didn't like wolves, because there was a long history of animosity between witches and wolves, but Lissa and I had become friends when we were in college, when we were in Zarique, which was a neutral territory.

Colored lights lit the dark pebbled road as Lissa told me a story about something. The voices were talking over each other, but it was like music, the strange sound ringing above the market square.

"One mystic cupcake, with blue delphinium frosting," I said to the witch standing in front of the shop. She gave me a mean look before she nodded and grabbed the cup