Spellbinder (Night World Book 3) by L.J. Smith

Author:L.J. Smith [Smith, L.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 2016-12-06T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

Gran told me that the only person who can send a spirit back is the one who called it up,” Thea said. “But the problem is that you have to be able to see the spirit, you have to be close to it. Then you can do the sending-back spell.”

“Okay,” Dani said, nodding. “But—”

“Wait, I’m getting to it.” Thea got up and began to pace the few steps between her bed and Blaise’s. She spoke slowly at first, then more rapidly. “What I’m thinking is that this can’t be the first time this has happened. Sometime, somewhere, somehow, some witch must have called up a spirit and let it get away. And then had to go out and get hold of it again.”

“I’m sure that’s true. But so what?”

“So if we could find a record of how she did it—how she tracked the spirit down—we might be in business.”

Dani was getting excited. “Yeah—and it wouldn’t even have to be a case of a summoned spirit. I mean, some spirits just won’t go to the other side at all after they’ve died, right? Maybe there’s a record about how one of them got sent across the veil.”

“Or a story. Or a poem. Anything that would give us a clue about how to get them to stay in the same room with you while you do the spell.” Thea stopped and grinned at Dani. “And if there’s one thing Gran has lots of, it’s records and stories and poems. There are hundreds of books in the workshop.”

Dani jumped up, dark eyes snapping. “I’ll call my mom and tell her I’m staying over tonight. Then—we find it.”

After Dani called her mother, Thea called Eric to make sure he was okay. Now that she knew there was a demented spirit on the loose she was worried about him.

“You’re sure you’re all right?” he said. “I mean, I still feel awful about taking you to that place. I wanted—well, I’d like it if we could see each other without something terrible happening.”

Thea felt as if someone had squeezed her heart. “Me, too.”

“Maybe we could do something tomorrow. If you’re up to it.”

“That would be good.” She didn’t dare to keep talking to him with Dani around. It would be too easy for anyone listening to guess her feelings.

• • •

The first thing Thea noticed in the workshop was that Blaise had taken her new project with her.

She must be close to finishing it.

“I’ll start here,” Dani said, standing in front of a large bookcase. “Some of these look really old.”

Thea picked another case. There were books of every kind: leather-bound, paper-bound, cloth-bound, suede-bound, unbound. Some were printed, some were handwritten, some were illuminated. Some were in languages Thea didn’t know.

The first shelf yielded nothing except an interesting spell titled “how to make an elixir of abhorrence, which works quite as well, or perhaps a little worse than the traditional Elixirs of Loathing or Detestation, and is less delicate and expensive than the Elixir of

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