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shaman who was, without a doubt, tons more powerful than I was.
    Something felt off as I stepped outside, but I decided to ignore it. For now.

CHAPTER 5

    T hat was freaking scary.” Laura stood from where she’d been waiting for me on the front steps.
    “At least it wasn’t the Green Goblin,” I said, ignoring the fact that my hands shook a little. They’d been steady as I’d given Kylie the healing tea, but now that my adrenaline was wearing off, I didn’t feel so great.
    “Well, I have to say, I’m pretty impressed. I think your mom would be, too.”
    “No,” I said. “She would have been pissed at me. She didn’t want me doing stuff like this. At least not until I was older…” I trailed off, realizing I was talking about my mom in the past tense.
    “She’d get over it.”
    We walked down the long drive, and I realized I needed to get home soon to make dinner. The sun was still out, but fingers of pink were beginning to creep up the horizon.
    “So, this wasn’t a regular spirit attack,” I said, kicking a pebble with my toe.
    “You don’t say?” Laura snorted. “What was the deal, anyway?”
    Even though we were bound, we weren’t able to sense everything the other was experiencing. I’d known what Laura was doing outside, felt her emotions, but I wasn’t able to see through her eyes or know what she was thinking. So, while Laura knew some crazy stuff had gone down in Kylie’s room, she didn’t know the details.
    “Another shaman.” I glanced over to watch her face. She swallowed hard. “There was a summoning rune carved into Kylie’s floor.”
    “Shit,” she whispered as we turned out of the driveway. She glanced around, eyeing the few cars parked along the street. “I don’t even know what to think about that.”
    I heard the cranking of an engine coming to life, and I glanced behind me. It was just a neighbor’s SUV. Laughing at myself, I shook my head. This whole experience had left me seriously edgy.
    “Me either.” I pulled my tangled hair away from my face and into a ponytail. “I feel like it’s none of my business, but the whole thing makes me really uncomfortable. I mean, a shaman summoned a really powerful spirit into a girl’s room, and she could have easily died.”
    “Died?” Laura asked. “What are you talking about?”
    I’d forgotten she hadn’t seen how close to death Kylie had gotten.
    “Yeah,” I said, trying to block out the image of Kylie’s life fading before my eyes. “The spirit was acting like it was…a crazed animal or something. It almost killed her.”
    “Oh my god,” Laura said in a low whisper. “I didn’t think they could kill someone that fast. I thought it took like months or something.”
    “Me either, and even though she’s protected by our bone magic, I guess I feel weird about leaving her alone in that house,” I said. “And why do I feel like we’re being watched?”
    Laura kept her face forward, but I could tell she’d been thinking the same thing by the way she twirled her nose ring. “Don’t look back. It’s the SUV.”
    I focused hard on not showing any reaction even though I had the sudden urge to run. But I forced myself to keep walking, no change in my pace, no tensing my shoulders. “What makes you think that?”
    “No one walked up to the car to get in before it started. I wasn’t watching them, but I didn’t hear anyone, and I certainly didn’t hear any car doors open or close,” she said, keeping her voice low. “They’d been sitting there. When they saw us, that’s when they started the car. Now it’s slowly following us. And I swear I can feel their eyes on my back.”
    “Good ears.” I felt like I should have put two and two together myself. I’d been too focused on the stupid carving in the floor that I hadn’t been paying attention to my surroundings.
    I blinked. Carving. Strange people watching us. What if the person in the SUV was the shaman who had summoned the spirit?
    “What should