31 – INVITATION DAMON I led them down and deeper into the cave, with my super hearing, I could hear the distinct sound of running water up ahead, surely there must be an opening somewhere there. “Wait here, let me check it out,” I told the coven leader. She nodded, “Be fast about it.” Foolish woman. If she had been fast about accepting my proposal earlier, we would not have been scrambling to find a new exit now. We would have just walked out the way I came in and been long gone before Stephan and his merry band of witch killers made it to the hideout. True to my hearing, there was a hot spring located somewhere up here in the mountains. I followed the sound until I came to the source of it. There was a slit in the rocky outgrowth and the rays of the early morning sun streaked in

