I took the pouch. “You want us to face the damn ghosts?”
“I’ve done this quite a lot before.” She spied from behind the statue. “Besides, the riddle said something about defeating the darkness and the weak. Maybe we have to free them. Then we’ll be done.”
Evelyn stepped back into the path and held her ground as the ghosts approached. She threw the powder on the nearest ghosts and said, “Liberi.”
Two ghosts exploded into a million tiny sparks that disappeared in the air.
All right, we could do this.
I joined her and in less than a minute, we freed all the ghosts. I turned around, looking for more. “That was it?”
“It should be, right?”
“But what about the key part of the riddle?”
Evelyn pursed her lips. “s**t, there’s that too.”
Another shriek echoed through the air, raising the hai
