Lunar Lake
I could still feel the static in the air, the ghost of something foul clinging to the space the ritual had occupied.
“It’s not just Jaxson,” she whispered again, her voice hoarse. “It’s something worse.”
I looked over her head to Lena, who had staggered to a tree and was leaning against it, barely upright. “What the hell was that?”
She wiped blood from beneath her nose. “Possession. Or something damn close to it. Jaxson’s body isn’t his anymore, not fully. That thing, whatever it is, it’s rooted deep. It’s been feeding.”