CHAPTER TEN
I landed in another alley with a thud and a roll, adding dirt and gravel stains to my already weathered gabardine.
The stitch to the spirit world spun like a pinwheel before disappearing. A mélange of sunlight and shadow settled around me.
I lay on the ground for a few moments, looking up at crisscrossing telephone wires. The smell of rotten trash from a nearby dumpster hit me, fetid and rotten.
I sat up and rested against a brick wall as a car horn blared in the distance. Somehow, CeCe had at least removed the mud from my clothes, but that wasn’t much of an improvement.
CeCe kicked me out of the spirit world. If I wanted to remain friends with her, I couldn’t go back. I had to trust that she was kicking me out for a valid reason, but that didn’t make me feel better.
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