Chapter 81: Chapter 81

But she ignored her question in favor of an answer from Dakota. “It, it likes the corner. The upper corner, near the ceiling, diagonally from me. It sits there, and it waits for me to go to sleep.”

Good enough. Closing her eyes, Ken placed both hands on the wall next to the frame. “A’gesh eta ma.” There was a hissing noise inside the room. But as long as anyone could hear the thing, she had no intention of stopping. “Ma,” she repeated more times than she could count.

All three heard a loud crash somewhere in the darkness.

She opened her eyes again and cut off the talisman with a simple “A’gesh ko.” Around the space where her hands had touched stone, magically cultivated frost spread out in all directions. She let go, and there were perfect handprints left behind like graffiti. With a sigh of relief, Ken grabbed Yuuki’s flashlight and worked the lock once again.