The Codex

Chapter 3

How were they able to capture her?

I got a sinking feeling. Were these the same people that were able to keep a Sidhe noble bound in a sphere? If they got a hold of Molly too...

I called Murphy and told her what had happened.

"Dresden, are you sure she was kidnapped." Lowering her voice she asked "Isn't she supposed to be supremely powerful?"

"Yes, Murph. Not just anybody could sneak up and grab Molly. Especially now, being the winter lady" I said in a hushed whisper as two grocery patrons made their way down the aisle.

"Meet me at Molly's. I need to make a stop and I'll be there in an hour."

I made my way out of the store as Greg announced that the store would close in 5 minutes.

Waldo Butters was a medical examiner that lived in a little house on the edge of town. Since I had died and come back to life, he had made himself the person in charge of my old helper. Bob the skull.

Bob wasn't really a skull, he was a spirit of intellect. The skull was just where he escaped from the daylight so he did not get destroyed.

I stood on Butter's porch and knocked. I remember the last time I had been there as the winter knight, I had stolen Bob and tried not to involve my old friends.

Now, Butter's was one of the Knight's of the cross. Last summer, he had been given the sword of faith by yours truly. I was throwing the sword to Charity, Micheal's wife, to fight off an attack but it had missed her and fallen straight into Butter's outstretched hand and he had saved the day and all of our lives.

I wasn't even sure if he would be home.

"Hello, Harry." A short blond woman answered the door. Andi was Butter's girlfriend and also an Alpha. One of a group of kids who many years ago had learned a cool trick of being able to turn into wolves. She and Butters had gotten together a few years ago.

"Hello Andi, it's been a long time." "Yes, she said." "It has been. It's kind of late Harry. What can I do for you."

"Listen, I said I'm in a bit of a bind, and I could really use Bob's council. Is Butters' around?"

"No," said Andi, he is out with the knights training on using his new sword.

"Bob is in the Den. Why don't you come on in?" she said sleepily. Andi was dressed in a loose fitting sweater and some baggy sweatpants that hid a bit of her shapeliness. However, she would also be able to get out of them in a hurry in case something wolfy needed to happen.

"Andi, I know that the last time I came in here, it was to steal Bob, I just want to let you know that that is not my intention now or ever again."

"Thank you Harry," she said. "That means a lot."

She lead me into their den where a plain white skull was sitting in the middle of the table. Romance novels and other not so family friendly pictures were strewn across the table.

"Bob," Andi said. "You have a visitor." The skull turned and said. "Ah, Hello Sahib, Long time."

"Yeah Bob, how are you liking it here?"

The skull's eye sockets danced with an orange light.

Bob had at one time been my helper. I had taken him from my old mentor Justin Demorn after his death, which I had caused but to be fair he was trying to cause my death at the time. Bob had been my resource on all things supernatural for many years until I made a deal with Mab and became the winter knight to save my daughter from the vampires.