I spent the next day buried in the grimoire trying to memorize every word of the ritual and it was harder than it looked because the language was old and some words I couldn't even pronounce right.

Mara showed up at the safe house that morning with Ruth and Silas and when she saw me hunched over the book she said "The elders heard what you're trying to do and we came to help."

"Thank god," I said "Because I'm lost with half of this" and she sat down and started going through it with me ...