Chapter ONE - Weebly

The girl cast no shadow. That was why she had
looked so strange before, when she had walked away
and then faced him again. She had cast no shadow then,
either. Not from the moon; not from the window. And
the light on her face hadn’t changed in the least.
“What are you?” Ethan asked, in a breathless voice.
A faint smile touched the girl’s lips. “Tomorrow
night,” she said. “I’ll take you to the brooch. Or else
you’re a dead man.”
With that, she vanished, like a candle flame
extinguished in a sudden wind. Ethan spun around,
searching for the conjurer who had created her,
summoned her from the air, much as Ethan had
summoned that white horse the night before. An
elemental spell. An illusion. That was why he had felt a
casting, but not a potent one. And yet this spell went so
far beyond any he was capable of wielding, it struck
him dumb.
The vision Ethan had conjured to scare Daniel the
previous night had lasted mere moments, and Ethan
hadn’t even managed to make the horse’s hooves click
on the wharf fill. But this conjurer had sustained his