Chapter ONE - Weebly

vine released him. Not that it mattered. If the finding
spell hadn’t told the conjurer where he was, Ethan’s
own spell had.
For his part, Ethan had some idea of the conjurer’s
location. That finding spell had been double-edged. The
conjurer had used it to locate him, but in doing so had
revealed his whereabouts to Ethan. He was close, no
more than a city block or two away. To the west and
south. If Sephira hadn’t been on the street, and if Ethan
hadn’t been so sure that her men were close by, he
would have run. But whether by design or sheer
coincidence, his two most dangerous enemies had him
trapped. One might have thought that Diver and Derne
had lured him here. He didn’t want to believe that Diver
would have any part of such a plan, but at that moment
he didn’t know what to think.
“There you are!”
He knew the voice. Anna.
She stood in the narrow, dark space behind him,
glowing faintly, her expression cross, as if she were a
parent and he a wayward child. She ignored Uncle Reg,
but the ghost bared his teeth at her. Ethan could almost