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“Of course it is. We all do it using mother nature’s gifts. Can you imagine if people saw witches and vampires flying in the air? Everyone would want to do it, save a ton on airline tickets,” he said, as he set us down on the ground in front of a cave.
I roll my eyes at him.
“Tuck your hair inside your shirt,” he says, as he glances around.
“Are we still invisible?”
He nods as he sprinkles something onto my head then does it to himself.
I start having a sneezing, snorting fit, because that’s what happens when I sneeze uncontrollably, I ask, “What is that?”
“Pulverized mushrooms, it’s to mask our smell. Come on.”
He takes my hand and leads me inside...
Chapter 14
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I WAVE A HAND AS WE enter the cave, and it alights with flames from the torches placed in the wall scones. I look over to Cassi and see her staring at the coffins with their crooked lids. They are empty just like I knew they would be. I know how she’s feeling when her eyes come to rest on a pile of bones in a corner. I know because I had the same feeling the first time, I’d seen it. Pulling her close I lead her over to what looks like a shrine. One for Lilith, that wasn’t there before. The book is lying closed in the center of a podium beside a wall, and torches flicker on either side of it. Dried flowers and the salted earth that Mickle harps on about, surrounds it, like it’s warding off evil spirits.
Cassi is drawn to it I can tell. Like it’s calling to her and when she puts out her hand to take it from the podium, I stop her.
“Wait. Don’t touch it.”
“Why not?”
“Lean down and hold out your hand, palm up, even with the book.”
I watch as she does, then say, “Now blow on your palm.”
The frost that comes off her hand, illuminates what I suspected. There are souls trapped within the circle. Scared, she jumps back.
“What the fuck was that?!” She asks, rubbing her palm on her pant leg.
