Chapter 32: Your Witch Is An Interesting One

Harmony clearly knew Brennan well to be talking about him like that. It was perfectly natural for her to be closer to a friend than she was to her boyfriend of necessity but Castian wasn't sure how to respond to that.

"I think I've seen him at the bank before. We've never directly spoken before today," he ended up saying.

"He's cool. He's really been around for a fairy and is one of the oldest ones I've met. I've learned a lot from him and vice versa. Now I can do the same with a mermaid! This is the best! Not us getting interrupted though. Sorry."

Harmony backpedaled on her excitement, seeming apologetic. He hadn't been upset though. After seeing how excited she was about meeting Talori he realized that she wouldn't have been able to get back into the mood after that phone call if she let someone else handle it.

"It's fine. I don't have anything pressing going on tonight."

Fridays were reserved for her. The rest of the week he hardly spared her a passing thought. Getting dragged along because he couldn't reschedule wasn't the end of the world.

Castian could tell Harmony was distracted anyway. She was normally much more focused on him when they met up. Her head was probably back in the witch coven, thinking about what she wanted to do with Talori when they met up the next day.

He did his best to get her head back in the game and eventually it worked because she became more invested in their kisses. He was relieved because it was strange having her be so unfocused.

Castian may have been thrown off earlier but he was perfectly relaxed afterward when Harmony lay next to him on the bed, playing with his hair as she so often did. They usually didn't talk at this point and simply enjoyed winding down in silence for a while so it was unexpected when she asked him if he liked sweets completely out of the blue then offered no elaboration.

It was random but he didn't think much of it in the face of everything else that happened until Monday morning when he had barely been at work for an hour. He had a lot of schoolwork to do over the weekend so he didn't really have time to think about everything that happened on Friday night.

His office phone rang and he picked it up, speaking into it brusquely. "Cas Reycan."

Cas seemed more human than Castian. Most of the elves that worked here shortened their names like this unless they were young enough for the naming trends to have changed.

It was the secretary, Gaelira Venris. "Cas, you have a visitor who doesn't have a prior appointment."

"…who is it?"

Castian couldn't think of anyone that would visit him without a prior appointment. This had never happened before. No elf would ever show up unannounced without at least calling ahead.

"Harmony Netzley. She says she knows you."

He nearly fell backwards out of his chair. What was Harmony doing here?! She had never done anything like this before!

Castian cleared his throat to regain his composure. "Send her back. Thank you, Lira."

"Understood."

Harmony appeared in his doorway a moment later, acting as if this was completely normal. She wore a pink, white, green, and black striped sweater with black leggings and her hair was back in a short tufted ponytail. Her glamour was on so her eyes appeared brown instead of neon green and she wasn't wearing makeup.

She plunked a paper bag on his desk. "Here. I told you I would make things up to you. These are from my favorite bakery."

Castian blinked at the bag. So she hadn't asked if he liked sweets for no reason. She had been planning to do this all weekend. But why bring them here instead of wait until they saw each other again on Friday?

He opened the bag to peer inside and discovered that it was full of a variety of different cookies. He looked back up at her blankly. "You brought me cookies."

"Yep! Sorry again for dragging you into my mess. I hope you like them."

"Thank you but you really didn't need to do that."

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Harmony brushed him off with a wave of her hand. "I don't like owing people and you were a surprisingly good sport about our time together getting interrupted. I'd start with the snickerdoodle if I were you. It's the best kind. See you Friday!"

As quickly as she had come, she was gone. Castian was left staring at the place where she had been standing in utmost confusion. When he recovered he ended up trying the snickerdoodle as she had suggested. It was delicious.

He had a hard time focusing on work for a while because he had been so thrown off by her sudden appearance but he managed to get back in the groove of things before lunch. He ran into Gaelira in the breakroom and she regarded him curiously.

"Who was that who came to see you earlier? You never let people in without prior appointments unless a new VIP customer is signing on with us."

"That was my girlfriend. She was bringing me something," Castian said simply despite still not understanding himself.

"I wasn't aware you were connected to a witch," Gaelira said thoughtfully. "I've never seen any other witches bring things over before. Did you ask her to bring you something or was it unexpected?"

"It was unexpected. She brought me cookies because I helped her smuggle a mermaid to the witch coven over the weekend. She said she doesn't like owing people."

"I see. But what was she doing smuggling a mermaid into the witch coven? I have never heard of any mermaid being on land before."

Castian sighed. "It's a long story. I was as surprised as you are."

"Strange. Your witch is an interesting one," Gaelira remarked before taking a bite of her sandwich.

She certainly was. Far more interesting than he had originally thought. She flitted in and out of his mind over the next several days as he finished off those cookies. He wondered whether or not her research with Talori was going well and then wondered why he cared since it was irrelevant to him.

Castian's head was muddled by the time Friday rolled around. When he arrived at Harmony's place she was dressed up as usual but he flashed back to how she had looked when she unexpectedly showed up at his office on Monday. It was a stark contrast.

He realized that she had purposely been dressing up for him all this time. And she did wear red often…had she noticed that it was his favorite color? He wasn't sure what he was supposed to think about that.

"Thank you again for the cookies. They were all delicious but you were right about the snickerdoodle," he said, pushing his thoughts aside.

A small, pleased smile appeared on her face. "Oh good! I told you so."

"That you did."

Harmony began massaging his shoulders as usual and Castian felt the tension seeping out of them. His muddled thoughts cleared a bit too. But they were back by the time the two of them were lying in bed with her playing with his hair.

Should he ask her how her research was going or not? He had never been curious about what she was working on before. They never talked about what was going on in their lives because it hadn't been necessary but seeing more of her world up close and then seeing her in a context he usually didn't had thrown him off.

"How have things been going with Talori?" Castian asked.

Harmony seemed surprised by the question but her eyes began to glow as she answered with the same sort of excitement he had seen from her last week. "Amazing! I'm learning so much already and still feel like I've barely scratched the surface.

"I wish I could have talked to someone other than that grumpy old merman sooner. There's so much that we can share with each other. When Talori's brother takes over the kingdom he has a lot of big plans for future collaboration with both us and Brennan because of his job and I can't wait!

"I'm sure that merfolk have more applicable magic than just their tears. Discovering that was a huge deal for the fae community but there has to be so much more to it. Hearing her talk about her powers…she sounds more powerful than any water fairy.

"Mermaid water powers are a lot more versatile. Brennan can only make bubbles and this water fairy I knew back home could shoot water out of her hands but even that pales in comparison to what Talori can do.

"I've been having her show me some of her powers and I'm completely blown away! If all merfolk are this powerful, they can make a lot more difference for the fae community than we originally thought. When the time comes I want to see her kingdom for myself and have a good conversation with her brother.

"I'll have to get myself some sort of scuba gear but that's fine.. I'm sure I can enchant some to make it so I can talk to them clearly. Brennan managed with just his magic but he IS a water fairy so I'm sure he was able to withstand the water pressure better than I ever could…"

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