The Sixth Ghost: a supernatural urban fantasy action adventure (Cards of Death book 6) by Tamara Geraeds

Author:Tamara Geraeds [Geraeds, Tamara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-09T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

“You!” The werecat holds out her hand, and Kessley recoils. “You are not me! You’re a traitor! A trickster!” The white in her eyes disappears again as she draws the shadows to her.

“No, don’t!” Charlie shouts, and he pushes Kessley out of the way.

Of course, that doesn’t help. The shadows follow their target. They lift Kessley from the ground and wrap her up tight. Her face changes back to her own as she gasps in pain. “Help!”

“Gisella, look at me!” Kasinda’s voice rings out, and to my surprise, Gisella’s hand stops moving. So do the shadows around Kessley, but they still hold her tight.

While Kasinda carefully approaches her niece, Charlie and I each grab a shadow and try to pull it free.

Kessley screams in agony.

We let go, and I take her face in my hands. “Kess, listen. You’re a ghost. You can slip through the shadows. Make yourself invisible.”

“I can’t,” she says. “I can’t… breathe.”

“Sure you can,” Charlie says after a quick look over his shoulder at Kasinda and Gisella. “You’re dead. There’s no need to breathe, you know.”

“But it feels… that way, and I… suck… at turning… invisible,” she says.

It looks like Kasinda could use some help, so I gesture at Charlie to keep talking to Kessley. I can only hope she won’t be taken away from us this soon.

Gisella has aimed her rage at her aunt.

“You can’t stop me,” she says in a low voice that doesn’t suit her. “I can do things you can’t even imagine.”

“Oh, I can imagine,” Kasinda chortles. “And I don’t want to stop you, I want to help you. Don’t you remember why you’re here?”

Gisella’s eyebrows move down. “Don’t play with me.”

“I’m not playing.” Kasinda halts in front of Gisella. “You came to take my powers, and now you’ve got them. I want you to put them to good use. Combined with your own powers, you can do what I could only dream of.”

A grin forms on Gisella’s distorted face. “I sure can.”

“I brought something to help you.” Kasinda holds out her hand. On it rests the dragon’s egg.

I press my lips together to keep in a warning. If Gisella breaks it, we’ll have no way of controlling her. She’ll be too powerful to defeat with a spell. I don’t even want to think about what she could do.

“What is it?” she asks curiously.

“It’s the egg of a Hornback Dragon, the foulest dragon alive. If you eat it, the strength of your powers will double.”

“Really?”

Kasinda holds out a book with her other hand. “If you don’t believe me, look it up. I brought you the Dragon’s Encyclopedia. The real one, not the incomplete one you can find on the Pentaweb.”

Gisella releases the shadows, and Kessley rolls away from them, clutching her chest.

The werecat takes the book from Kasinda and flips the pages until she finds both the Hornback and the Ryu. “This does look like a Hornback egg, but you probably put a spell on this book to make it show me what you want,” she scoffs.

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