ring was placed.”

Barry nodded, recognizing the name. “Meteora, one of the places Ina said when she was possessed.”

“Again, I wasn’t possessed,” Ina corrected with a sigh.

Peter continued, “And then the text is washed out, until what I can make of the final line: For those who raise this secret also raise the dead.”

“That doesn’t sound ominous at all,” Wilder said.

Safa narrowed her eyes at Paz, who stared at her from the other side of the thick tree trunk. “And what are you looking at, little girl?”

“Not you, your Highness,” Paz said, voice wavering.

Safa followed Paz’s gaze downward, to the pet carrier that Safa had placed on the ground moments before. In all the days s...

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