Demon Witch by Geoffrey Huntington

Author:Geoffrey Huntington
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUVENILE FICTION/Fantasy & Magic
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: 2013-05-29T04:00:00+00:00

A Sudden Transformation

“How do you know me?” Devon asked the unseen woman. “Who are you?”

Suddenly he was struck by light. He turned, squinting into the glare.

“Once more, I find you talking to yourself.”

It was Bjorn Forkbeard, shining his own flashlight into Devon’s face.

“Who’s behind this wall?” Devon demanded.

“Not sure,” the gnome replied. “Who’s it sound like?”

“She knew me!” Devon shouted. He banged on the wall. “Hello? Who are you?”

But now there was only silence.

Bjorn put his ear to the wall. “I don’t hear a thing, my friend. Not a thing.”

“What’s behind here?” Devon felt along the wall. “How do you get in?”

“It doesn’t appear you can get in,” Bjorn said. “There’s no door, and it’s closed off from end to end. There’s no way anyone could get behind there.”

Devon spun on him. “Well, there was someone there. I heard her sobbing. It’s the same sobbing I’ve heard for months.”

“Sobbing.” Bjorn looked up at him with wide eyes. “Ah, but then I’ve heard the sobbing, too. It’s the ghost of Emily Muir, I’m sure of it.”

“It’s not Emily Muir,” Devon said. “It’s someone else.”

Bjorn Forkbeard looked at him cagily. “And who do you think it might be then?”

“This was the same voice I used to hear sobbing from the tower—the same woman who once called my name from the tower window. And I saw you take someone out of the tower. You can’t deny that. You brought her down here.”

Bjorn looked at him plainly. “There are many things in this house that only appear to be real. You know that, my young Nightwing friend.”

Devon narrowed his eyes suspiciously down at the gnome. “Am I your friend, Bjorn?”

“But of course. I owe you my life.”

“Then tell me what you know of Isobel the Apostate.”

The little man’s face went white. “Iso—bel—?”

“Surely you know who she is.”

Bjorn nodded. “But why do you ask about her?”

“Don’t you know? Is it Isobel I’ve been hearing? Is it she who’s behind that wall?”

Bjorn seemed staggered by this new line of questioning. He sat down on a crate and rested his flashlight on his lap. The breath seemed to have been knocked out of him.

“No wall could contain Isobel the Apostate,” he said. “Why do you speak of her?”

Devon studied him. Either Bjorn was a very good actor, or the mention of Isobel truly unnerved him.

“I believe it’s she who’s been trying to get the portal opened,” Devon said.

Bjorn looked up at him with terrified eyes. “Then we are doomed. We have not the resources to fight her.”

“Oh yeah? Well, I’ve been into the Hell Hole and came back out alive. If she’d just show her face, I’m itching to take her on.”

Bjorn smiled weakly. “The arrogance of youth. My good friend, the spirit of Isobel the Apostate has been loose for five hundred years. She has opened more Hell Holes all over the globe than any other renegade sorcerer, and each time her power has grown greater. Of all the Nightwing, dead or alive, I fear her the most.

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