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"No ut "Absolutely nothing"

"Just up here there is an eh" Callie pointed ahead

"Darius, go get the--" A faint feeling of o area "Wait"

"I feel ic"

I glanced back at her, surprised

"There is no evil ic," Callie said in a hush "It is the caster’s purpose that defines the spell"

"The caster y and…sticky" She wiped at her are space existed beyond the cargo lots before the land becaain To the naked eye, it was eraveled area A small, out-of-the-way shack that didn’t seem maintained Next to it, however, was a moderately sized area cloaked in a heavy invisibility spell, shot through with spider webs of different kinds of eye distractions

"Holy crap" Relief and fear washed over me in turns This had to be it This had to be the site ere looking for

And that meant I was about to confront a really powerful demon for the second time

"Someone put a lot of time and effort into this collection of spells," I said in a hush

"What kind of spell?" Callie whispered

"Invisibility and multiple types and power levels of distraction spells It has all the bells and whistles What I don’t understand is how coe?"

"How large?" Dizzy asked "Does it fill the whole space?"

"About three-quarters of it You can see where people have been walking around it" I pointed at the lines of foot traffic in the gravel I doubted the humans even knehy they didn’taround what they thought was absolutely nothing

"Theat," Callie said "But a distraction spell wouldused to be there, and now isn’t, slip by the brain for a while So The es have probably taken down and put up the spells several ties, even if the su didn’t"

"Whatever the reason, there it is, and we need to get going" I patted my various weapons "Where to start?"

"Rip that spell off like a Band-Aid," Callie said, pulling out itees and you work on the deh each of the components with the sword No, this required et the various parts of that spell unraveled Otherwise it’ll blow up in our faces," Penny said, picking at a button on her shirt while studying the spell that she could clearly see She was one in a es went, which worked out for me She wouldn’t think I was horribly unique Not for a while, anyway And hopefully by then I’d be out of the public eye again

"First I have to kill that deh," I said to myself

"What?" Callie asked

I shook my head "Give me a screen, Callie We don’t want anyone to see this"

"It is highly volatile" Penny was still picking at her button, analyzing the spell "They did a good job with it"