Detrick glanced over his shoulder to check on Cecilia again. She reassured him with a smile, though she did pick her way up the slope very carefully.

The day before, when he had told her he was going up into the mountains to investigate something the demon had told him, she had insisted on coming.

“Well then, I’m going with you,” Cecilia had said.

Detrick had given her a long, worried look. She had never been the same since she saved the little ...