who: Tabitha and Rooney (@wcirdo) where: Riverside Bookstore when: mid January
In the quiet of January, without the distraction of the holidays, it was getting more and more difficult for Tabitha to ignore what was happening to her town. It was clear that Cardinal Hill threatened, and maybe even that someone was hunting witches, and she wanted to do something about it. But Tabitha liked to believe that she knew her own limits, and she suspected this more than she could handle alone.
Sometimes it bothered Tabitha how secretive witches were. She understood why it was important, of course, but she also felt like there was something missing. Like there should be a community there that wasn’t. She didn’t know how many witches there were on Cardinal Hill or who all of them were, but she was beginning to think that needed to change.
All of her thinking led Tabitha to Riverside Bookstore, and more specifically to Rooney Caldwell. She approached them with uncharacteristic hesitance, because while she believed her idea was a good one, she wasn’t sure how it would be received. “Hey, Rooney. Do you have a minute?”