Reborn ghost seeing lady is pampered by her ex husband - Chapter 271

Chapter 271: Between life and death.

Phoebe looked at everyone as she started dropping things on the ground.

“I need some silence to cast a small spell.”

She got a moon crystal, some sage and a drop of water from the lake of life. Then, she sprinkled the water on the moon crystal and lit the sage. She held up the moon crystal and everyone’s eyes followed, looking up curiously.

“I call upon the ancient magic, open the heavens, reveal the magic that is hidden here.”

The crystal started to glow, just like a bright moon it cast a soft light around them. Phoebe smiled, the spell had worked on her first try.

“Please, give this to Yin and the ghosts.” she told the ancestor.

It vanished away and returned in less than ten seconds, giving the others no opportunity to question Phoebe about what she was up to.

While Connie, Sylvester and the undead pets continued the search, Phoebe decided to find the source of the fire. As always, she decided to go the supernatural way because ordinary human means would delay her. Not only would she have to wait for an official report from a fire investigator but it could also be wrong.

Out from her bag, she pulled out a big book, one which the Saxon spirit had taken from grandpa Mayfair’s basement.

It was a book on runes, how to draw them and their purposes. From the side of her right eye, she peeked at grandma Mayfair to see if the old woman realized where the book had come from.

Her face did not show any signs of recognition and Phoebe was relieved.

[I did not steal the book, i only borrowed it. It belongs to my grandfather so technically i sort of own it. I hope nana won’t be mad, I will put it back eventually.]

Her secret was not a secret much longer after grandma Mayfair read her thoughts. She glanced at the book and wondered when Phoebe had “borrowed” it.

As long as the book was helpful to Phoebe, she did not mind.

Phoebe found the rune she was looking for and she picked up a stick. Using some of her energy, she started drawing symbols into the ground, combining elements of fire and detection.

Because she was in a hurry, she was not meticulous and some of the lines were crooked. In the middle of the lines, she drew a flame icon and then placed a fire talisman on it.

“Hear me earth, hear me wind, ignite the flame, show me the path.” She chanted.

Nobody had a clue what she was doing and they just watched in silence, trying not to disturb her. Edward was even breathing as slowly as he could, afraid that his breath would break her concentration.

They all watched in memorization as the rune activated and it began to glow brighter. Blue flames rose from the center and the talisman was consumed. The flames started to move, pointing to the Western wing of the hospital and marking out a path.

Suddenly, Phoebe recalled that building had collapsed and she sighed in frustration. All she had done was in vain. This was further cemented when the flames returned to the center of the rune.

Just as she was about to give up hope. the flame carved a number and a letter into the ground, 17B.E

“What the hell!” Luke exclaimed. “That’s Ruth’s room number, 17 B, Eastern wing.”

“In that….” Edward started.

“The Gabriel’s have not been here.” David brashly cut in.

There was a moment of silence, everyone was wondering how to proceed. All hospital staff that were not injured were looking for Ruth, all the people they had in the city were doing the same thing and they were on ground, doing the same thing.

“I think she is dead.” Jennie said calmly.

“Let’s not jump to that conclusion, we should wait for conclusive evidence. For now, let’s disperse and search. We can reconvene here in an hour unless someone gets new information.” David suggested.

Once again, they split up and the search continued. After an hour they met up at the dead where dead corpses were being taken out by staff from the coroner’s office.

“Anything?” Luke asked.

The response was similar, negative.

Just then, Yin returned to Phoebe and he came baring gifts. The bird threw up some things on the ground and Phoebe gloved up and went in to take a look.

There was a butterfly gold necklace that Ruth never took off and three teeth.

“These belong to Ruth, all that’s left where her energy is are ashes.” Yin dived back into the coin as his job was done.

His findings left Phoebe even more perplexed. If Ruth was dead and her body burnt to ashes why could she still sense her?

They all heard what the bird reported back and some were relieved.

“She’s dead, finally we can all stop worrying about that crazy bitch, thank God.” Grandma Mayfair made the sign of the cross.

Jennie’s brows pulled together. “It’s over, unless she comes after Pheebs in ghost form. Honey, be careful, i should buy you some protection talismans.”

Phoebe’s upper lip twitched. Where was her mother going to buy those talismans? She was a shaman that sold talismans, in fact she was the one that gave Jennie protection talismans!!

“I can handle her, human or ghost.” Phoebe answered confidently.

She did not want to tell her parents that Ruth was not really dead, no matter what the evidence said, the worm said otherwise.

Even with all the evidence that proved that Ruth was dead, David preferred to wait before getting excited. He had noticed that Phoebe still retained her apprehension.

[Anything?]

He sent a text to Roman and his team.

Two fire fighters passed and one took his protective helmet off.

“Man we have fought a lot of fires but I have never seen anything like this!”

“Same, the more we put it out the angrier it got.” The other shook his head in disbelief.

“It just kept coming after us as if it had eyes, i hope i don’t get to fight another fire at a mental asylum, ever. These places are haunted dude.”

Phoebe and company eavesdropped until the firefighters faded away. Then, they looked at each other, pondering on the words they had just heard. A fire that had eyes, how peculiar!

Connie returned with the moon crystal, from white, it was now red, resembling a blood crystal. The Saxon spirit sniffed the crystal.

“What is it?” Phoebe asked curiously.

The spirit let out a short frustrated sigh. “Magic, old magic. Whoever cast it is between life and death, they cast a veiling spell to confuse us, Ruth is long gone. This makes no sense at all, how does she tie in with someone like this?”

David moved near her. “Phoebe what do you think? Is she really gone for good? I think a lot of things are suspicious, starting with the fire itself.”

All Phoebe did was stare at him blankly, before she could share her opinion, a bus arrived along with other cars and not surprising, what looked like soldiers.

She knew that the members of the founding sect had arrived. They stepped out of the vehicles, Amon among them.

Immediately, they started clearing out everyone from the grounds of Lockhart, Phoebe and her group only stayed because Amon allowed to.

It took fifteen minutes for the Lockhart grounds to be cleared and then the ghost catchers got to work. A middle aged man crouched and cast a spell, he raised his hands and created an invisible dome covering at least 100 square miles.

“What the hell is that?” Phoebe whispered.

She could see it but the others couldn’t because they were ordinary.

“What are you looking at?” David asked her.

All of them were looking up but there was nothing but smoke and stars.

“You don’t see it?” Phoebe asked him.