I bolted past Rohan onto the property, screaming.

Baruch caught me, turning me around. "Look." Despite throwing themselves at the open gate, the spider demons were being repelled, as if bouncing off an invisible rubber shield. "Wards," he explained. "Keeps out anything with even a drop of demon blood."

Feeling braver, but no less disturbed because big-ass spider demons, I inched closer. "Kind of stupid to attack Demon Club, especially when they can't get in." ...