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but did not bother to tell me.
    Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Ivy start to walk forward. She also had a cautious expression on her face. Was she feeling the tension too?
    Duncan extended his hand to Aunt Gwen and politely introduced himself. “Hi. I’m Duncan Quinn, I met Autumn this morning. What a great building. Is the exposed brick in here original?”
    Aunt Gwen crossed her arms over her chest and ignored his extended hand. “It is.”
    He gestured at the chunky rustic shelves full of dried herbs, arranged in pretty glass apothecary jars along the back wall of the store. “Do you grow all those herbs in your own gardens?”
    “Not all of them,” Aunt Gwen told him. I had never seen her so stiff with a customer before.
    “My mother studies herbalism,” Duncan announced. “I bet she would love your shop.” All good will, he started to move towards the back wall, to apparently check out those herbs, when a loud impatient tap sounded on the glass door.
    His cousin Julian stood outside the door and gestured with a frown for Duncan to come out. “Let’s go!” Julian called.
    “In a minute.” Unconcerned, Duncan ignored his cousin and went to get a closer look at the herb filled apothecary jars.
    There was another loud tap on the glass door. I saw Julian yank his hand back from the glass as if it had burned him. He stepped back from the door, frowned down at his knuckles, and if possible, looked even angrier.
    “I mean it Duncan. We need to go!” He sounded really and truly pissed off. “Right now!” He insisted.
    “What’s his deal?” I asked Ivy quietly as she stepped to my side. “He could come inside the shop and wait.”
    “No. He can’t,” said Gwen softly and in a deadly serious tone.
    I stood there with my mouth hanging open. I had never seen her act that way before. Power seemed to crackle off of her, and I automatically backed up a step, tugging Ivy with me.
    Duncan didn’t notice the sudden change in my aunt, or hear what she had said as he was all the way across the sales floor, but I sure did. I swung my gaze from Aunt Gwen to the guy outside, as Julian backed farther away from the glass door but continued to call for his cousin.
    Duncan finally glanced over his shoulder at his cousin, who was looking angrier by the moment while he stood out there shouting on the sidewalk. Duncan rolled his eyes at Julian and then picked up an Enchantments business card off the shop’s checkout counter and tucked it in his jeans pocket.
    He walked up to Aunt Gwen and then told her that he would come back later. “I’ll bring my mother in to shop,” he promised.
    My aunt said nothing in response.
    He smiled at me and headed for the door, calling for his cousin to settle down. As soon as he stepped outside, his cousin grabbed his arm and hauled him off. Ivy and I both went together to the door and watched them leave.
    “Real subtle, Julian. What the hell is wrong with you?” Duncan asked.
    We could hear Julian as they moved further down the sidewalk, “We are not supposed to cross into the Bishop’s territory, and you know it!”
    “That’s ancient history.” Duncan stopped and scowled at his cousin. “It’s your problem, not mine.”
    In a moment, they had disappeared around the corner.
    Territory? What the hell did that mean? “Okaaaay,” I drew out the word. “That was bizarre.”
    “All energies not in alignment with me, must now depart.” Was Aunt Gwen’s reply as she made a broad shooing gesture, and then crossed her arms defensively over her chest.
    “Wait, what did you just say?” I asked as I looked back at her.
    As an answer, she focused over my head. Which of course made both Ivy and I look up, to see what she was staring at.
    “Remind me to re-enchant the wards.” Aunt Gwen growled as she stalked forward and peered up at the large, dried, fan-shaped herbal arrangement displayed over the shop’s front door. “I am surprised he was even able to get that close to the