Page 22 (1/2)

"It isn’t," Menolly said "It’s a narro passage leading into a smallish cavern There’s plenty of roohts are undead If you have some sort of necroht help"

We all turned to the youkai, who glanced at Caht nod, and he said, "We’ve been working on that I don’t know if it ork on a wight, though We’ve never actually tried it except on a few of the spirits in the known haunted houses around town--"

"Whoa--hold on," I said "You hosts on the sly?"

"Not exactly," Ca on this spell a feeeks ago So far, we’vehavoc We didn’t want to say anything until we knee had it down pat And we don’t yet"

"No, but we’re daolden sheen He let out a long breath "Youto teach Camille how to summon spirits in a few months, but first she has to kno to dispel the So that’s e’ve been working on How to banish spirits As to how the spell will affect wights, I’, maybe it will help"

I stared at the pair, as did everyone else Everyone but S, and I had a sneaking suspicion he knew all about what they’d been doing I glanced over at Menolly, and she shrugged

"So, you two are really i, huh?" Unsure just what I wanted to ask, I finally said, "Why?"

Ca breath "Eventually, the work in necroainst the deainst thera"

"Deoing a little far?" My hands on ood idea I can’t iy will do to her She already has the unicorn horn Why not just focus on that?" The thought of ic that demons used"Let it be, Kitten Dirty tricks can win a battle Trust ainst theic I think we should welco and his arht start opening up into the Subterranean Realht and left, spirit seals or not"

I fell silent In the back ofThe Autuic And Menolly--ould happen to her next? What path would she be forced down on this unwanted war that had been thrust upon us?

"I get it," I said, feeling yet another thread break that tied irl I’d been a few o "So, back to the subject at hand Can you try this Spirit-Be-Gone spell on the wights?"

"I doubt it," Morio said "It’s not going to oing to have quite a fight on our hands, so I suggest we have weapons at the ready And watch out for that shade They aren’t as dangerous as revenants but they’re a lot hosts, and they have a touch that can chill all the warmth out of your body and leave you frozen in your boots We can probably take hiet a e to the left, away from the main chamber As we followed, I wondered as at the bottoone on a hike just for fun Maybe when this was all over, we could coh this tunnel, we’ll colancing over her shoulder as ended our way through the passage, taking care not to touch the sides where the sli

"There’s a cha protected by the shade," she added "I have the feeling he won’t hts have been dispatched He seeuardian And that makes me think that he’s the spirit of soo and felt a duty to remain and protect it after his death"

"That would explain a lot," Morio said "Shades are often self-appointed guardians Whether it be of a place, an object, or a person doesn’t really rasped the scope of its power--even if he didn’t know exactly what it was--and knew that it needed guarding"

"What about the wights?" I asked "How do they play into the picture, assuhts can be suht forth fro up his hand "Let’s discuss this before we get in there Wights can also be created by a shaman or necromancer who has the power to raise the dead Could be that when he was alive, the shade had the power to restore life to the dead Wights are better watchdogs than zombies, and harder to create, so if our spirit did invoke them, then we’d better be prepared for one hell of a shon"

A nagging thought occurred to me, one I didn’t really want to think about "What if the shade still has the power to suhts? What if the shade is still a necroical powers just disappear when you die?" Even witha witch, I wasn’t all that clear on the ins and outs of life in the Spell Zone