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“Luckily for us”

“He said when he first discovered it, the place amped with bad juju His words, not mine” Sacha raises her hands e eyeball her

“Do you feel anything now?” I ask We pause and tune into our environers in the air A disturbance to nature has left a bitter taste in the wind Chill bumps cover my arm

“Did the temperature just drop or is it me?” Fel whispers

“I feel it,” I say

“Me too,” Sacha adds

I can feel eyes onto find the source I rub my arms to ward off the chill The stench of rotten s

“What the hell is that?” Sacha’s voice isher nose and mouth

“I don’t know” A shushing noise breaks the cloying silence I turnblack rass

“Lou, please tellritual,” Fel whispers

“Hell no Nothing about this is normal,” Sacha hisses as the snakes encircle us Wethe trees in the distance A crack of thunder has us all juray clouds, blocking out the sun Nausea hits round Sures, they wait in the distance

“Lou,” Sacha screa to blow us over

“I see thes and raisewhite light The figures rush forward The intense cold they bring burns hot Pain explodes in h es of Fel and Sacha broken and bleeding fill my mind

“No” I choke the words out as I force the foreign entity from my mind Icy hands wrap around my throat I’m yanked off my feet and tossed I land on my back with am umph With the wind knocked out of me, I’ers into the soil and pull energy froround I wince as the reround buzz to life, disturbing sleeping ghosts

This is host We’re under a demonic attack I roll ontoback and forth, I focus on my faith and block out the shrill screams of the others Ancestors, help me