Once I was dressed, he picked up his poncho and began to fold it. Before he rolled it after the final fold, a wicked grin curved his lips. “I’m never washing this again,” he told me before he sniffed it.
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My mouth hung open as he tucked it under his arm and motioned for me to follow him.
“Why do you keep taking that to the bike? You could just leave it on the bed.”
“True, but if we need to leave in a hurry, then it’s already on the bike and ready to go.”
Conceding to his rationale, I shrugged and followed him.
As I passed the light switch, I realized it was up, and I flipped it off, then back on in puzzlement. After turning the light off one last time, I rushed to catch up to him.
“I checked the breaker before we went to bed. They were off, but when I flipped them all on, there was no electricity. No surprise since this place has been closed for some time, so I figured they had it shut off. Except now we have power—and water. Neither of which we had before.”
“I don’t understand,” I started.
“Me either. I know for a fact there was no power to that breaker box. But there’s more. Look,” he said as he motioned to the main room, which was now lit up with every light in the place on.
My mouth fell open as I saw all the chairs that had previously been up on the tables had been knocked to the floor. The pictures that were on the wall were either haphazardly crooked or on the ground.
“The yard light is on too. It looks like it’s on a sensor, and it’s obviously daylight out.”
My brow furrowed as I looked out the window. I’d cleaned it and considered cleaning the rest of the place, but at the time was too wiped to worry about it. Though I used magic to clean, it still exhausted me as if I’d done it by hand; it simply got done quicker.
It had been a crazy couple of days. I collapsed into a chair and held my hand to my brow. My stomach growled. The lack of real food was starting to get to me.
“Damn, I’m hungry. About now, I would kill for some bacon and eggs,” I muttered as I covered my eyes with my hands.
“Me too,” he said as he took a seat next to me.
I paused when the scent of bacon hit my nose. My gaze darted around after I dropped my hands, and my mouth fell open. I blinked rapidly in shock.
There were two steaming plates sitting in front of us that sure appeared to have bacon and eggs on them.