"All right." Jen placed the timer on the kitchen counter, everyone but Miss Sharon surrounding her. "Let's see what we're working with here." Jen breathed out, trying to remember what she needed.
"I need frankincense and the gut of a eusocial insect."
"We'll handle that first part." Alice and Teen left with Ellie waving bye to them, completely calm.
"Okay. I need a corpse that's been decaying for at least 30 million years."
"Is that something that's readily available?' Cause I don't know what the hell you're talking about." Agatha waved her hands around, face still swollen.
"Why do I have to translate? It's zooplankton."
"It's in petroleum products." Ellie offered, Jen pointed at her.
"That we maybe can do." Lilia began leaving the kitchen.
"Take Ellie with you!" Jen pushed her out as well.
"Hey! I'm not that bad." She yelled back as Agatha pushed her out.
"Lilia, Ellie let's go. Andale"
They ran to the garage, hoping that there would be a car, therefore gas which has petroleum. But they switched the light and there was nothing, utter nothing. Ellie looked behind her, seeing Lorna behind her waving her hand and pointing to another room in the house.
"Come on!"
"Wait Ellie!" The two older women ran after her. Ellie followed Lorna to the bathroom and found Jen's ridiculous skin care routine.
"Oh! Of course Jen's skincare made it to The Road." Agatha scoffed, picking up some eye cream or some sort.
"But it's all organic, right?" Lilia asked them. Ellie opened a container and poked her finger in before reeling back. Rio taught her slight Earth magic and because of that she could sense the products in certain things "I mean, there's no petroleum in there."
"Hmm. I know a snake oil salesman when I see one. I say we call her bluff."
"I agree, there are hardly any organic ingredients in here." Ellie scrunched her nose up at it.
"Try to save Agatha." Agatha and Ellie both startled at the random words.
"Uh..." Ellie glanced at Agatha, very confused.
"Uh... Yes, I love this plan. I just think we should find the ingredients first, though, right?" Agatha chuckled nervously.
"Right." Lilia mumbled to herself.
"All right."
***
Agatha and Ellie didn't notice Lilia wander off, lost in her hallucinations of the past. Not until Ellie saw an older woman in front of them, one in a beautiful Sicilian 1600's dress. She was older and oozed knowledge and wisdom, she was one of the few ghosts who didn't look surprised that Ellie could see her. She looked straight at Ellie, pointing behind her and yelled.
YOU ARE READING
A Slither of Death
FanfictionEliana Robinson died, she died and in came Ellie Maximoff. In a body that was never her's to take and yet, here she was. But she finds comfort in the spirits and death she can see, feel and sense all around her. In which...
