Witching Bones by Yasmine Galenorn

Author:Yasmine Galenorn [Galenorn, Yasmine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nightqueen Enterprises LLC

During the night, UnderLake Park was far spookier than it was during the daytime. For one thing, few people hung out at the park during the twilight hours, and even fewer entered during the night, so there was an odd silence that reverberated through the acreage. For another, at night, the ghosts came out to play, and UnderLake Park was haunted as shit.

Neil and Llew were silent as I led them onto the path that Llew and I had traversed. We were all carrying walking sticks, given the snow was still coming down and the trail was far harder to navigate than it had been just the day before. It was amazing what a difference a mere few inches of snow could make.

We slid and slipped our way along the path as I kept a close watch out for the trail juncture. The flashlight helped, and the night sky was more silver than dark, due to the falling snow. I quickly realized that my ski goggles were getting fogged up by my breath, which was coming in puffs, so I took them off and tucked them into the lightweight backpack I was carrying.

As I turned onto the side trail, I slowed, wondering just how far the land wight’s territory extended. Would it come all the way up here, to the top of the ravine? Or would we have to go down below to find it? I suddenly wished that we had something like a monster-Geiger counter.

I poked Llew’s elbow. “Listen, dude. Do you have anything that can detect when we’re near the wight? If it was a ghost or spirit, I’d be able to sense it, but it’s not and I can’t. I just realized that we could be on a wild goose chase.”

“Not to worry,” Neil answered for him, holding up his hammer. “My hammer senses evil and gives off a faint blue light when we’re near it.”

“Like Sting, in Lord of the Rings?” It flashed through my mind that Tolkien either had encountered goblins or other sub-Fae during his life, or he had possessed an incredibly accurate imagination.

“Kind of. Along those lines. I’m watching it, so if we get near the wight—it is an evil creature, isn’t it?” He paused, frowning. “This wouldn’t work on an alligator, for example, no matter how hungry it was.”

“Land wights are malevolent, yes.”

“Okay, then. It should give us a heads-up.”

Comforted by the massive man’s promise, I once again took the lead and began edging through the foliage, down the side of the ravine. We were approximately in the same place we’d been the day before.

Llew and Neil followed. I could hear their labored breathing behind me. Both were in fairly good shape, but the temperature was dropping and the harsh chill to the air played hell on the lungs. I was about to ask if they were okay when I stepped on a rock that was covered by snow and my foot slid out from under me. I tried to regain my

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