Back up the steps again.Eddie and Vic were bickering, again, like usual.
“Which one of us is better at sex?”Vic asked.
“Me,” I said.The two of them looked at each other, faces fallen.“I checked on the course.Vic, this is going to sound stupid, but do you have any tracking spells?”
“Uh, not exactly,” he said.“I was a trapper, but that was before I studied under my teacher.”
“You didn’t learn any dowsing abilities?”
“Oh, dowsing,” he said.“Yeah.”
“You think you could use that with a nautical chart?”
“I haven’t exactly tried that before, but it couldn’t hurt.”
“Come downstairs with me,” I said.“Oh, don’t look like that, Eddie, you can come too.”
Brother Al looked on impassively.Eddie stared at the charts, hard.Almost like he was expecting them to burst into flames.Vic had a necklace dangling from one hand, and he closed his eyes, muttering under his breath.I clicked the camera on.
“We can’t find the boat,” I hissed.“We’re dowsing for it.”
Vic muttered a few more things, and then before our eyes, the necklace began to swing, closer and closer, towards a particular spot on the map.
“Mark the coordinates,” he said.
Brother Al moved forward and put an X in the vicinity.Vic walked around the chart again, dangling the necklace.He did this two more times.Finally, each of the ‘x’s on the map were connected together in a rough oblong shape.Vic dangled the necklace in that shape, and then we all watched as the swinging parts hovered nearly in place over one particular spot.
“Mark it,” Vic said.
Brother Al did as expected.
“That’s our spot,” he said.
“Yeah, but how do you know?”Eddie asked.
“I just showed you,” Vic said.
“Yeah, but you could have been doing that.”
“You want me to do something a little more elaborate?”
“It just looked like some human stuff.”
“It is human stuff.All magic is human stuff, Eddie.This isn’t Hollywood.Why should I summon a powerful demon to point us in a direction when I could just use a necklace?”
“To make sure, I guess.”
“This isn’t a party trick, dude.”
“It looks like it.”
“Guys,” I said.
“We have our direction,” Vic said.
“You could be mistaken, man,” Eddie said.
“Are we really going to do this?”Vic asked.
